| Notes |
| ● |
As usual, the cameraman was Guy Littlemore and the sound recordist
was Simon Burles, but the helicopter was flown by local pilot David (instead
of Keith Thompson). |
| 1 |
Near Sandy Bay (both ‘sandy’ and ‘bay’ are shades of brown)
there is a marina (Captain Troy Tempest and Marina were the principal characters
in the puppet series ‘Stingray’) belonging to the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania.
Suzi lands, runs along the jetty and finds the yacht ‘Doctor Who’ (a time lord’s
vessel). The clue tube is tied in a bowline knot on a rope. Suzi suggests that
Dermot should be the new Doctor Who and she should be his assistant. |
| 2 |
Steve and Janet send Suzi westwards (Horace Greeley, founder
of the New York Tribune newspaper, said “Go west, young man...”) to the Cascade
Brewery (orCAS CADEnce) outside Hobart – the oldest brewery in Australia (contains
the oldest still). Inside, one of the staff, Roger, directs Suzi to shelves
on which metal beer kegs are stacked. The clue is beside a keg of Cascade Export
stout (a strong heavy-bodied porter). |
| 3 |
Suzi flies to Battery Point (an electric head – Suzi solves
this), lands, and runs to the nearby Antarctic Adventure centre (the Antarctic
is below sixty-six and a half degrees latitude). Some husky dogs (actress Lauren
Bacall’s voice was often described as ‘husky’) are outside. The contestants
direct Suzi inside to the Cold Experience, a dimly-lit room kept at -5°C (where
it’s 5 degrees below). She has to dig the clue from a heap of snow into which
are stuck two flags. |
| 4 |
Steve quickly solves the first part of the clue and sends
Suzi to Richmond (the capital of Virginia USA), famous for its bridge, which
was built by convicts in 1823. One of the prison guards was George Grover, who
had a reputation for beating the convicts and whose ghost is said to haunt the
bridge (Grover the flagellator is haunting). On landing, Suzi runs across the
bridge (Billy Goats Gruff – ‘trip-trapping over the bridge which the Troll was
under’) and along the riverside path, where she finds an horse-drawn carriage.
The clue is under the ‘dickey seat’ (a small servants’ seat at the back of a
carriage). |
| 5 |
With time fast running out, Suzi runs up a flight of steps
(take steps) and across a green (Psalm 23 describes ‘green pastures’). Prompted
by Dermot, Steve and Janet decide that ‘the original old Jew of twisted tale’
was Ikey Solomons (1758-1850), a real-life ‘fence’ on which Fagin, the character
in Charles Dickens’ story ‘Oliver Twist’, is thought to be based. They carry
on after the time runs out. Suzi finds Richmond Gaol, where Solomons was imprisoned,
and discovers the clue in a baker’s oven in the wall of the gaol cookhouse. |
