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Tonight (March 31st) at the end of "NBC Nightly News", Brian Williams showed a short clip of one of the most famous April Fool's pranks in television history.
It was first broadcast on BBC Television almost fifty years ago, on April 1st, 1957, and was narrated by Richard Dimbleby, who was one of the true legends of British broadcast journalism.
The segment was originally broadcast on the distinguished BBC program "Panorama" and was about spaghetti trees. These trees "grew" in the Ticino region of southern Switzerland (bordering on Italy), and the end of March meant "spaghetti harvest time".
I read that the first U.S. showing was on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show", but I recall seeing the segment as a child on NBC's "Huntley/Brinkley Report" (where it would be rebroadcast every year on or around April 1st), but with David Brinkley's narration replacing that of Dimbleby (perhaps because Dimbleby passed away in 1965).
This is a link to a page on the BBC News website about the famous "Panorama" segment on "spaghetti trees". You can also watch streaming video of a portion from the "report".
It was first broadcast on BBC Television almost fifty years ago, on April 1st, 1957, and was narrated by Richard Dimbleby, who was one of the true legends of British broadcast journalism.
The segment was originally broadcast on the distinguished BBC program "Panorama" and was about spaghetti trees. These trees "grew" in the Ticino region of southern Switzerland (bordering on Italy), and the end of March meant "spaghetti harvest time".
I read that the first U.S. showing was on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show", but I recall seeing the segment as a child on NBC's "Huntley/Brinkley Report" (where it would be rebroadcast every year on or around April 1st), but with David Brinkley's narration replacing that of Dimbleby (perhaps because Dimbleby passed away in 1965).
This is a link to a page on the BBC News website about the famous "Panorama" segment on "spaghetti trees". You can also watch streaming video of a portion from the "report".