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The Titan Prometheus steals the heavenly fire from Mount Olympus, and brings it down to man.
Zeus looks down upon the Earth, and in revenge pledges to bring misery upon humanity for the theft of fire. He orders Hephaestus, the god of smiths and master of crafts, to create the first woman, a creature so beautiful that she will be irresistible to either god or man.
The Olympian gods endow her with various gifts, and so she is called Pandora, the "all gifted". Among these gifts are Curiosity, and an intricately carved box which Pandora is told must never be opened.
Hermes offers Pandora to Epithemus, (brother of Prometheus), to be his wife. Despite the warnings of Prometheus to never accept anything from the gods, Epithemus is smitten, and marries Pandora, believing the box to be a wedding gift from Zeus.
Over time, Curiosity gets the better of Pandora, and as she opens the box, all the evils placed within it by Zeus, sickness, death, turmoil, strife, jealousy, hatred, famine, escape and spread over the Earth.
The only thing left trapped in the box as Pandora slams the lid shut is Hope...
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1 / The Generation Game
2 / Parasite Lost
3 / Another Day In The Office
4 / Men Who Do Lunch
5 / Brief Encounters
6 / The Usual Suspect
7 / Gardener On The Run
8 / With a Little Help From Who?
9 / At a Secret Location Near Hastings
10 / Underneath The Arches
11 / Mr Blue And Mr Green Go Visiting
12 / The Road To Victoria Park
13 / Escape To The Country
14 / They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There
15 / Smallmansea
16 / The Chase
17 / Don't Take The Maserati
18 / B.A.W.D
19 / And In the Blue Corner
20 / Department S
21 / You Shall Go To The Ball
22 / The Full English
23 / The Pen Is Mightier
24 / Bludgeon Finds Something Out
25 / The End Of The Pier Show
26 / 'Games? Must We?'
27 / The Tarnished Five
28 / Going Underground
29 / Here Be Spreadsheets
30 / A Fistful Of Sausages
31 / Clash Of The Titans
32 / The Labyrinth
33 / Rocket Man
34 / Rozzer On The Roof
35 / A Knights Tale
36 / The Watchtower
37 / Loose Ends
38 / Epilogue
