Victorian china fairing company developed a mass production method that no other company could match, thereby achieving an advantage over other firms. The subject matter that inspired fairings varies widely and provides an interesting insight into the popular culture of the Victorian era. Popular songs and music hall numbers inspire some of them, such as "Jenny Jones and Ned Morgan" and "Champagne Charlie is my name". Others commemorate notable people or buildings such as Ladies of Llangollen (relating to the scandalous affair of Lady Eleanor Butler and Lady Sarah Ponsonby) or "The Model of Laxey" (the Laxey Wheel on the Isle of Mann,
What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) makes the usual villainous mistake of trying to overpower Mrs Peel in hand-to-hand combat, and the cheerful victors fly off in a helicopter. Production for the episode was completed from mid-late December 1965 to early January 1966. Lamp stands shaped Minoan bulls used to decorate Miles's bachelor pad, designed by Harry Pottle, started retailing in a department in London six months after the episode was aired and have been cited as having "overtones of virility and eroticism and evidently considered highly saleable". What the Butler Saw (The Avengers) "What the Butler Saw" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth series