I saw this episode when it was first broadcast; I was eight. A few years back I visited an inn with a small private zoo, and got to hold a "tame" ocelot on my lap. It's an immensely powerful cat and would not be happy as a house pet, nor would it be compatible with human furnishings. Even in a very large screened pen at the zoo, I thought it needed more room to prowl.
I remember this episode from when I was 11 years old. I remembered Gary Moore scrolling out the banner containing the odds. I couldn't remember what the odds were though. I thought it was in the quadrillions. Way off. I decided to do a search for this episode and couldn't believe I found it. Very interesting segment. A couple of things about the bridge hands. There are 7.5 septillion grains of sand on the earth. It is easier to find one specific grain of sand than it is for this bridge hand to occur. Secondly, if you shuffle a brand new deck of cards perfectly, cutting it exactly in half, and then interweaving each card with only one other card, and you do this twice, after you cut the cards you will have dealt a perfect bridge hand. I'm not saying that's what happened or that these people made the whole thing up. It's just an interesting takeaway for a very unlikely event.
The odds against four perfect bridge hands being dealt in one game are so great that it is more believable that the four players were lying. What evidence do they have that this event ever truly occurred?
Weightlifter Paul Anderson lifted 6,270 Lbs. that's equivalent to lifting not 1 but, 2 Volkswagon Beetles, The Volkswagen Beetle weighs in at 3,045 pounds, Lol!
