<Dd> Series 6 ran for 13 episodes from 27 December 1962 . The scripts were written by Eric Merriman . The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, announcer Douglas Smith with music by Eileen Gourlay, Edwin Braden, the Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Revue Orchestra . The producer was John Simmonds . </Dd> <Dd> Series 7 ran for 13 episodes from 24 November 1963 . The scripts were written by Eric Merriman . The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, announcer Douglas Smith with music by Eileen Gourlay, Edwin Braden, the Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Revue Orchestra . The producer was John Simmonds . </Dd> <P> Beyond Our Ken featured characters similar to those later featured in Round the Horne, for instance Betty Marsden's Fanny Haddock (which parodied Fanny Cradock). It featured Pertwee's Frankie Howerd impersonation, Hankie Flowered, and Hugh Paddick's working - class pop singer Ricky Livid--the name being a mickey - take on contemporary pop singers' stage names such as Tommy Steele and Marty Wilde . Another favourite was Kenneth Williams' country character, Arthur Fallowfield, who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman, a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme Any Questions? Fallowfield's lines were full of innuendo and double entendre--on one occasion Horne introduced him as the man who put the sex in Sussex . Fallowfield's reply to any question began: "Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!" On one occasion, Paddick's character Stanley Birkenshaw, aka "Dentures", who would re-appear in Round the Horne, gave a noble and rather damp version of Hamlet's soliloquy: "To be or not to be, that issssssssssh the quesssssssssshtion ...". </P> <P> Williams and Paddick also played two camp men - about - town, Rodney and Charles, in many ways (although not as extreme) precursors of Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne . </P>

Who said the answer lies in the soil