Baby Jane Hudson characters, "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte", also starring Davis as a mentally unstable recluse lost in her delusions. Jane and Blanche's story is parodied in an apocryphal comic strip in "" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. In this film, director Robert Aldrich mined the careers of his two stars, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (who played Blanche), by using their early (circa 1930s) film clips when the story called for examples of their characters' work. The other characters react to clips of Bette Davis's early roles with dismay at her "bad acting", and when clips of Joan Crawford's old movies
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? show, "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" was made in colour. Also, "The Likely Lads" had been quite "stagy" (in the theatrical sense) in its format, being studio bound with little in the way of location filming. The 1970s series made extensive use of location filming in and around the north-east. In terms of humour, the two shows are very different. "The Likely Lads" had been a broad comedy, full of jokes and obvious gags, whereas "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" used much subtler humour, derived from the dialogue and characterisation, often interspersed with sentimentality and even touches of