Tony T. has a, oh, an okay post about the TV sensation 24, mettant en vedette Kiefer Sutherland. This is all very well.

But when he invokes The A-Team he is on dangerous ground.

The obvious comparison, of course, is to Emergency!, starring Randolph Mantooth.

Mr Mantooth has his very own website, obviously ... but also an Official European Randolph Mantooth Fan Club. (I can barely convey how annoyed I am by the existence of unofficial, anarchistic European Randolph Mantooth fan clubs. You have to draw the line somewhere).

24 is, if I may be so bold, a bit of a bore. If you want to torture Arab terrorists, you'll goshdarn get Condaleeza Rice to play "The Moonlight Sonata" to them over and over again. Then they'll talk.