I remember the original "spaghetti harvest" news report. Another UK April Fool news item some years back concerned two WW1 airmen who were supposed to have fallen in love with the same French Lady. One was English and one was German, and they had both courted her alternately as the front line kept moving backwards and forwards over her village. After the war, they had both continued their affairs with her, but she always refused to marry either. The two elderly aviators had finally decided to have an arial duel in vintage planes to sort the matter out once and for all. They showed a brief piece of film in which one plane was seen to crash - probably from "The Blue Max". The phone lines were inundated with calls and at the end of the news, viewers were gently reminded of the date.

One of the best jokes that I've been involved in, was on a young lady who scheduled mainframe slots at a large computer centre (before the days of multitasking). Her desk had a different coloured phone for each bit of hardware. People kept ringing alternate phones with spoof queries until she was in quite a tiz. When the yellow phone suddenly rang she turned round, grabbed it, and was photographed saying "Hello" into a banana which I'd managed to place on the cradle while she was preoccupied.