📺 The first episode of 'Alas Smith and Jones' was broadcast. Tuesday 31 January 1984 ~ BBC2: 21:00 The programme's format borrowed elements from some of Britain's best known double act series, with each episode beginning with the duo appearing in front of the studio audience to introduce the show (a la Morecambe and Wise) before giving way to a succession of quick-fire sketches (The Two Ronnies). Perhaps the best remembered section of the show was the 'head-to-head' where Smith, the idiot who k

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