I thought your answers were pretty good!
The birds are a pair of magpies.
That's the right episode, with Gobber Newhouse's wife having the black eye; Tristan also has a black eye at the end so I guess that makes three in the episode.
Yes, when Tristan gets the guitar, there's a segment at breakfast with Siegfried reading the newspaper, where he reads that William Butler Yeats has just died. Yeats died January 28th 1939, and Tristan's birthday is within a few days after that, so Tristan is an Aquarius.
The only answer I know to your questions is about Tricky's penpal. His name is Bonzo Fotherington and he is a "lonely Dalmatian." Mrs. Pumphrey later gets Cedric the boxer because she fears that Tricky has been traumatized by the death of poor Bonzo, and she wants him not to be an "only dog" anymore.
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angharad83
16 years ago
still can't see the birds - are you sure it isn't just the shape of the chimney pot?
HOw does Tristan get a black eye at the end of the episode? I must have forgotten that bit...
Wow, I would never have remembered that bit about Yeats - excellent!
Answers to questions 4 and 5:
Mr. Adamson also appears later on in the series, in the episode where the Darrowby Bell ringers have their last meeting before the war. He is the old man who makes the speech on the beer crate.
In one of the early episodes, before James starts going out with Helen, Tristan explains how Richard Edmunson took over his father's Newspaper when he died a few years ago. In the episode "Judgement Day" we see Mr. Edmundson Senior as president of the Darrowby show, very much alive.
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