Image by Alan Levine , via Flickr My husband is nothing if not diversified in the range of his creative enterprises. Board game enthusiasts, for example, will recognize the name Bob Harris as the creator of the classic fantasy board game Talisman . 1 Following the world-wide success of Talisman , Bob a made the lateral move into writing Y/A fiction when our friend Jane Yolen invited him to be her co-author for Queen’s Own Fool , a tale of Mary Queen of Scots (Philomel Books, 2000), the first of eight successful collaborations. And thereby hangs the tale of how he made yet another lateral into script-writing. Bob has always been a fan of vintage American radio comedies like the Jack Benny Show , Amos and Andy , and Duffy’s Tavern . In the wake of writing Queen’s Own Fool , it occurred to him that the life of Mary Queen of Scots, which affords so much serious dramatic material, might on a lighter note provide the basis for a uniquely Scottish sitcom. In 2003 he mentioned t...