We could not let Jeremy Beadle leave us without a quick online round-up of his top TV wind-ups.

But first a confession: there's no sign on YouTube of his very greatest prank - when a Dorset farmer's wife was persuaded not only that an alien had landed its spaceship in her garden but that she should offer it a cup of tea.

So here, in no particular order, are some of his others:

Woman starts work at modelling agency only to find that the dishy new male model everyone is drooling about is actually her husband. Luckily she finds it funny.. at first .

ITV sales staff sent for a medical - with a vet .

Ice cream machine goes crazy as trainee left alone in factory. Does what it says on the can (the video, that is, not the machine).

Man agrees to take two sexy French hitchhikers on trip to Dunkirk. His wife is not so sure .

A famous one: market trader leaves his white van quayside in the Docklands while he has lunch. Returns in time to see it knocked into the Thames.

What would you do when if a total stranger told you your flies were undone? A nice, simple, low-budget prank

Do you remember the Cliff Richard fan who came home to find the bailiffs taking away her record collection because of her husband's fictitious gambling debts? "Quite frankly, lady, we're doing you a favour."

Or the man who came home to find builders repossessing his roof?

And, at the top of the page, one of our favourites. Trainee is left in charge of the coffin warehouse at an undertakers - only to find that it's haunted.

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