A comic turn for ORIANA

 ORIANA - An elegant setting.

 

While ORIANA is no stranger to comady having played host in her various venues to comadians and comic acts on most cruises it is the common practice to have at least one comadian among the entainers on board, however on occasion ORIANA herself became the setting for an episode of well know British situation comady, 2point4 Children
For it's 1996 Christmas special titled "Two Years Before The Mast" the cast and crew boarded P&O's flagship to ensure the series typical madcap humour came to the high seas.
The plot revolves around one of the supporting characters Tina portrayed by American born actress Sandra Dickenson booking herself on a 2 week Mediterranean festive cruise on board P&O's flagship who asks her hapless brother and his family to take her to Southampton tp join the ship.
 After entering the dock  the wrong way the family make a bad first impression by crashing in the fictional Commodore's car, and try to start a fight with his crew.

 ORIANA makes her first background appearance

 Later boarding ORIANA the family somehow manage to stowaway in a rather inconvincible manner which begins typical comic performances  as the family attempt to evade the the Commodore resulting in some  unlikely and bizzare situations.

 While the story is forgetable most lilkly only remembered by fans of the show anyone who has cruised with ORIANA can not help but recognize her elegant and unmistakeable venues and areas of the ship as can be seen been in the screen captures below

Rushing down the atrium staircase.

 Sunset in The Crow's Nest

 An evening walk on the promenade deck

 For anyone who may be interested in watching ORIANA in action in the episode it can be viewed in 5 parts on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee-tFwIzP2o