I might not have time to post tomorrow before I shove off for home, but I wouldn't mind if this was my last post for a while. This clip is real, and it's fan-freaking tastic.
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The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...
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I did a little poking around, and I'm afraid I have bad news. While Rainbow was a real show, that clip almost definitely never aired. It was most likely produced for the annual BBC Christmas party. This was a common practice for BBC shows at the time.
Damn you and your crazy ass fact checking? I suppose now I'll have to endure endless blogosphere triumphalism over the discovery of Staff of Ra-gate.
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