From I, Claudius: A Television Epic. 

Challenge: figure out what horrific, embarrassing, and/or nefarious event precipitated these bouts of laughter. 

Oh, you have made a study of it! Pity you don’t get to practice. You’d be very good.

Livia

Fun fact from imdb: George Baker is actually two years older than Sian Phillips and six years older than Brian Blessed.

Your mother is the most inscrutable of women. One may read her letters but never her face.

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I Claudius  Episode One

Wherein Augustus is actually a pretty cool Emperor, Livia takes care of people like a hit man does, Tiberius is a big lump of angst and Drusus is ridiculously adorable. 

How I didn’t notice before that Sian Phillips is basically Joan Greenwood I’ll never know.