| has gloss | eng: Q was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC Two. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, with the remainder running for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long. Each series was numbered, starting with Q5 — possibly because the project to construct the Cunard liner QE2, launched in September 1967, was dubbed Q4 — and continuing in ascending order, through to Q9. Another theory is that Spike was inspired by the BBC technical quality scale of the time where Q5 was severe degradation to picture or sound. The follow up series Q6 would have been complete loss of sound or vision in technical terms but by then was probably just an appropriate title choice for a sequel. The 6-point scale was extended by some engineering departments to a 9-point scale which may partly explain the cessation of the naming of the Q series at Q9. The final series was renamed Theres a Lot of It About, after, according to Milligans autobiography, the BBC felt the public might find Q10 too confusing. |
