Other duties included finding a cast and crew and planning the project from start to finish.
Obstacles included finding a bilingual construction crew to work with the Frenchmen, as well as agreeing upon an approach.
Which brings us back to young Armistead, showing up mid-morning, maybe a little late, at his desk in the People department, sometimes uncertain, if not clueless, about what he was going to write that day, but finding there a crew of equally fun-loving, equally talky young reporters and editors, ready to banter with him about their exploits and his in freewheeling 1970s San Francisco.
This resulted in an insanely meta-referential tangent, with the crew finding a DVD of the very episode they're in and hurtling off to Coronation Street to interrogate a post-Robot Wars Craig Charles on what the heck was going on.
A behind-the-scenes episode of The Crocodile Hunter showed Irwin and the crew finding a petrol station in a remote part of Namibia to watch the Wallabies defeat France in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final.
With the costs of the air campaign mounting, and the stresses growing on air crews, finding a way of breaking the stalemate has become a priority for NATO, and particularly for Britain and France, which are carrying the brunt of the campaign.
But after finding a way around it, the crew resumed laying the cables.
The CBT disciples had great suggestions on how a change in behaviour and thinking about ourselves might positively influence the output we produce, and the yoga-and-meditation crew convincingly argued for finding a way to connect with oneself, in order to arrive at a state of inner balance.
At Rana Plaza, recovery crews had little hope of finding a survivor when work began on Friday.
The bizarre details of the gang's casing of the Twin Towers (at one stage disguised as a French TV crew making a documentary), finding an inside man to join the operation and then pulling off the job could have been invented by screenwriters, but life itself (with a little nod to the cinema) wrote this wonderful script.
