Don't know about L&H but they certainly used a prehistoric 'Week Ending' format i.e. the two sides in the Arms Decommissioning talks arguing over what sort of biscuits to have in the meeting. This was always a favourite fallback format in W.E. when the writers couldn't get a handle on the issues involved (The Miners' Strike, the Middle East and especially Northern Ireland)
>two sides in the Arms Decommissioning talks arguing over what sort of biscuits to have in the meeting
Didn't Parsons & Naylor do this on Loose Ends the other week?