In 2007, the BBC website repeated an online version of the hoax, as did Google in 2013, in tribute. Many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success.
Smell-O-Vision: In 1965, the BBC purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odour over the airwaves to all viewers.A rather in-depth description on the physics behind the phenomenon was included. In 1962, Swedish national television broadcast a 5-minute special on how one could get color TV by placing a nylon stocking in front of the TV.Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled". He said Dimbleby loved the idea and went at it with relish. Peacock said the respected Panorama anchorman Richard Dimbleby knew they were using his authoritativeness to make the joke work. Peacock told the BBC in 2014 that he gave de Jaeger a budget of £100. The editor of Panorama at the time, Michael Peacock, approved the idea, which was pitched by freelance camera operator Charles de Jaeger. It was, in fact, partially filmed in St Albans.
A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. They claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a hoax in 1957, purporting to show the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees.In 1956, a rhinoceros called "Cacareco" (Portuguese for "rubbish") won a city council seat in São Paulo, Brazil with 100,000 votes, due to a campaign led by students who were tired of the city's mismanagement.However, the story was a bet between Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield, in which the former wanted to fool the public who filled the house but no performer ever showed up, which eventually led to riots. In January 1749, London newspapers published that a showman would squeeze his entire body into a wine bottle at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.In February 1708, satirist Jonathan Swift issued an almanac titled Predictions for the Year 1708 by a pseudonym "Isaac Bickerstaff", in which he predicted the death of astrologer John Partridge on March 29 of that year.7 Serious events mistaken for April Fools pranks.