Franchises: Far North England/Southern Scotland, Channel Islands
Companies: Border Television, Channel Television
Provides examples of:
- Britain Is Only London: Discussed. Harris starts off the episode by explaining that the UK is made up of a handful of major urban centres like London and Manchester where there's enough ambient wealth for an ITV franchise to become a major player, and then there are the places where wealth is something that happens to other people.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Harris briefly does a more exaggerated version of his natural West Country accent when talking about the merger of the ITV West and South West regions.
- He Also Did (In-Universe): Liberal and SDP leader David Steel was also a Non-Executive director of Border Television.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode is Titled After the Song of the same name by The Smiths.
- "The Pict Song" by Billy Bragg appears on the soundtrack at both ends of the episode.
- A clip from the Border News sketch from The Robbie Coltrane Special appears at the beginning of the Border half of the episode, and as The Stinger.
- A couple of examples given of programmes produced by Border are Mr and Mrs, The Krankies and Way of The Lakes.
- You Only Live Twice and Harry's Game are mentioned in IVC clips.
- "Looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes" is a reference to "The Intro and The Outro" by The Bonzo Dog Band.
- "I Feel Liberal" plays when a file photo of David Steel is shown.
- One of Border's few self-made idents uses the "Superstar Fanfare" by Keith Mansfield as its soundtrack.
- One of Channel Television's idents is likened to a Vanity Plate you might see after an episode of Ricki Lake or The Phil Donahue Show.
- Textual Celebrity Resemblance: Harris says that he's pretty sure that Border continuity announcer Craig Austin was in Hue and Cry, presumably due to his resemblance to bandmember Pat Kane.
