Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party; mechanical brain surgery .\rbr \rbr A highwayman steals lupins from the rich and tries to give them to the poor. Also: the first episode in a tatty, tedious 18th-century serial is brought to a .\rbr \rbr A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography; King Solomon judges the case of a .\rbr \rbr A program called Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, featuring a man who speaks exclusively in anagrams; a timorous TV announcer, before and after .