 A great fan of the series, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (qv)  (as she then was) wrote a sketch for the show with press secretary  Bernard Ingham which was recorded and aired as part of the 1984  National Viewers and Listeners Awards. The sketch featured  Paul Eddington (qv) and Nigel Hawthorne (qv), both of whom are  talking to the Prime Minister (played by Thatcher herself) about her  notion to abolish economists.