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Russ and Mark have finally finished tidying up after the big 50th party and now it's back to work doing some serious auditing. This episode is in response to a listener enquiring as to the wherabouts of William Woollard. So here he is, joined by fellow TW GOATs Raymond Baxter, Judith Hann and Michael Rodd.

Bit of an engineering focus this time round, as we take a look at:

- A thrilling new way to apply liquid gaskets

- Funky anti-lock brakes for motorbikes

- The scourge of school vandalism

- Digital readouts for drilling

- Judith's rubber belts

- A Scottish cure for stammering

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The big five-O. The half century. The golden jubilee. That's 50 editions of your favourite auditing podcast in the bag. That's a whopping 3.5% of all episodes of Tomorrow's World ever made that we've managed to cover (and 17% of all episodes of h&p@bbc. for less understandable reasons)

To celebrate such an auspicious occasion, Russ & Mark travel back 60 years to take a look at what the BBC claims is the first ever episode of TW (and we suspect is actually the second episode, but let's not quibble)

The show is still finding its feet and nobody involved seems to have realised that television ought to be at least somewhat entertaining, but let's crack on anyway and take a look at the following segments:

- The first ever home kidney dialysis machine
- A grifter hoping to dam up the Solway Firth
- The Mariner 4 spacecraft's mission to photograph Mars
- And that's it! Should be a short episode this month...

This actual original episode of Tomorrow's World can be found on the BBC's website for you to watch here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrows-world--first-edition/zrrpjhv

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We've just had the Oscars and in timely fashion Russ & Mark take the opportunity to audit a Hollywood Special of Tomorrow's World from the summer of 1998, the worst year for cinema in living memory.

Grab your bucket of popcorn and overpriced fizzy pop, sit back in your sticky seat and relax while Philippa Forrester and Craig Doyle bring us the following from the heart of Tinseltown:

- Motion capture featuring Trevor the rabbit
- Some film trailers
- The marvellous make-up of Matthew Mungle
- Gloriously obsolete Technicolor
- Hypno-robics, Botox and oxygen facials
- Synthespians
- ...And far too many mentions of the 1998 blockbuster flop "Gozilla"

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Russ & Mark look back to January 1985, when Ronald Reagan had his second presidential inauguration - an event with many similarities to Trump's recent one. This episode of Tomorrow's World from just a few days before strives to keep us warm and cosy on a chilly winter night with the following segments:

Maggie Philbin tests out a new electric blanket, plus electric carpets and a mysterious Norwegian bicycle wheel.

Peter Macann tries out a new method for inserting pins into teeth.

Kieran Prendiville posits the existence of "strange matter" and demonstrates a new fancy whiteboard.

And Judith Hann sets sail on the Thames Bubbler and has a quick game of 'squarsh'.

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Russ & Mark finally tackle the big beast that they have previously avoided - the classic Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz. Hosted, as ever, by Howard Stableford, it's a lovely lump of festive fun.
Obviously there's the usual crew of Judith Hann, Peter Macann and Maggie Philbin, but because it's Christmas we've also got Moira Stuart, Keith Chegwin, George Takei and the unassailable Rod Hull and Emu. Festive gold!

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We all need cheering up sometimes don't we? And what better way to do that than for your auditors to dig out a brand new tune from the burgeoning Michael Rodd songbook? Sadly, it seems no good deed goes unpunished as the rest of this episode is an absolute dog's breakfast.
Feel free to switch off after the opening song - but if you don't, here's what else you can expect:

- A man with a dicky ticker putting his hand in a bucket of water
- Michael Rodd shuffling in front of, sitting behind and squatting on top of various desks
- Kieran Prendiville complaining about car repair bills and riding a useless bicycle
- Judith Hann desperately pumping the brakes

Don't worry, it's nearly Christmas and we can forget all this ever happened.

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We all remember the famous Ronald Reagan speech where he implored "Mr. Hasselhoff, tear down this wall!" But what wall was he talking about? The Berlin Wall of course! And it turns out that Big Ronnie's wishes were granted 35 years ago this very day (if you're listening on day of release).
In order to celebrate this classic toppling event, your auditors travel even further back in time to an era when that big pile of rubble was still very much wall-shaped for a very special episode focusing entirely on West Germany.
William Woollard is our sole host (with Derek Cooper on narration duties) as we take some very long and thorough looks at:

- Testing the suppleness of classical musicians with torture devices
- Rejected Thunderbird vehicles clearing up a nuclear spill
- Willy Woolly crank calling the Siemens internal operator
- Some pro-level bowling from a deafblind person
- Mountaineering in top-to-toe denim to catch some fresh air

As the old German saying goes: "Ich lichten nichten" (Translation: "I don't like it, but I'll have to go along with it")

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As far as TV sitcoms go, no single episode of anything has made Russ laugh more than series 1, episode 2 of Bottom - the one where the gas man turns up. So to commemorate this perfect half hour of television, your auditors take a look at the episode of Tomorrow's World broadcast just two days prior. It's the first in a new series and marks the very start of the 90s "drum theme" era - which means we see Carmen Pryce's debut segment (in a small European town, natch) and short-lived (in more ways than one) presenter John Diamond, who is surfing some dodgy internet sites. Elsewhere, Judith Hann has a lightbulb moment, Howard Stableford deals with severe wind in India and Kate Bellingham does her best Ronnie Corbett impression.

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