"Rollings. ""Worzel Gummidge Again"" was read in November 1974 (with one story tying in with Guy Fawkes Night) by Geoffrey Bayldon, later to appear in the 1979-81 TV series. Southern Television's production for ITV was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and starred Jon Pertwee as Worzel, with Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally, a life-size fairground doll and Worzel's femme fatale. This was a significant change from the original books, where Aunt Sally is, in fact, Worzel's aunt. The Crowman, who made Worzel and some of his other scarecrow friends, was played by Geoffrey Bayldon, better known for his"
"as Worzel. Aunt Sally often exploits Worzel for her own ends (in one episode, she promises to marry him if he frees her from a junkshop washing machine, but she never has any intention of going through with it). The rationale for the move to New Zealand in ""Down Under"" was that Aunt Sally is purchased by a visiting museum curator from New Zealand, and Worzel follows her into the luggage chute. A stage musical adaptation, titled ""Worzel Gummidge - The Musical,"" was created by the TV series creators Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall with music by Denis King and"
"Aunt Sally (film) Aunt Sally is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Sam Hardy and Phyllis Clare. The film was made by Gainsborough Pictures at their Islington Studios, and released in the U.S. as Along Came Sally. An American impresario trying to set up his new show in London tries to fend off an enthusiastic English performer's attempts to get in his show. She eventually tricks him into giving her the lead part by disguising herself as a French star. ""The New York Times"" found Cicely Courtneidge ""not nearly as hilarious as"
"baby, her TV 'mother', Dandy Nichols from ""Till Death Us Do Part"", took her place. Stubbs featured in the ""Fawlty Towers"" episode ""The Anniversary"" in 1979. From 1979 to 1981, she played Aunt Sally in the ITV children's series ""Worzel Gummidge"" opposite Jon Pertwee and Barbara Windsor and was for several years a team captain in the weekly game show ""Give Us a Clue"" in the 1980s, reuniting her with Lionel Blair, the other team captain. She has appeared in shows such as ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Casualty"", ""Keeping Up Appearances"", ""Born and Bred"" and ""The Worst Witch"". In recent years,"
"starring role as the title character of ""Catweazle"". Bill Maynard also appeared as a scarecrow called Sergeant Beetroot. Television New Zealand and Channel 4 (UK) co-funded a follow-up series that ran for two seasons in 1987 and 1989, with Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally, still played by Pertwee and Stubbs, relocated to New Zealand. In 2018, British media reported Mackenzie Crook could be starring in a contemporary adaptation of the Worzel Gummidge books in a new TV series for the BBC. Worzel Gummidge Worzel Gummidge is a walking, talking scarecrow character in British children's fiction who originally appeared in a"
"causes. The Worzel Gummidge books differ from the television adaption; one difference being that in the books Worzel was married to Earthy Mangold. In the first book, Aunt Sally (his Femme fatale in the TV series) is only mentioned in one chapter and the character is an antagonistic bully to Worzel. For the television adaptation, Worzel has a collection of interchangeable heads. In the books, the maker of Worzel Gummidge and other scarecrows is not named the Crowman, but is described as mysterious figure. The first paperback version of the first book, released in 1941, has the distinction of being"
"an anonymous bit-player, or could, with the utterance of a few words or a look, transform himself into a wryly comedic presence -- he played everything from jailers, guards, garage attendants, and soldiers to upper class twits."" He was the first person to play the part of Worzel Gummidge on television in the original series broadcast by the BBC 10 February 1953. Actor Screenwriter Frank Atkinson (actor) Frank Atkinson (19 March 1893 in Blackpool, Lancashire – 23 February 1963 in Pinner, Middlesex) was a British actor and writer. He appeared in at least 130 films between 1930 and 1963. A"
"Worzel Gummidge Worzel Gummidge is a walking, talking scarecrow character in British children's fiction who originally appeared in a series of books by the English novelist Barbara Euphan Todd. It was the first story book published by Puffin Books. The books were adapted for radio and television a number of times, most successfully with former ""Doctor Who"" actor Jon Pertwee taking the lead role from 1979 to 1981 in the Southern Television series ""Worzel Gummidge"", originally produced in the UK (this series was ranked among the top 50 greatest British children's programmes) and later in New Zealand (1987–1989). For the"
"the first story book published by the famous children's imprint Puffin. The first broadcast with Worzel was before World War II on the BBC's Children's Hour. By 1946, Worzel was played by veteran radio actor Philip Wade, John by John Clark, Susan by Rosamund Barnes, and Earthy Mangold by Mabel Constanduros. Later, Worzel was played by Denis Folwell, who went on to play Jack Archer in the long-running BBC radio 4 soap opera ""The Archers"". The character first appeared on television in 1953 in a four-part series. In July 1967 five Worzel Gummidge stories were read on ""Jackanory"" by Gordon"
"Sonja Ball Sonja Ball (born October 20, 1956) is a Canadian voice actress. Ball is well known for her work as the voice of Arthur's Mother Jane Read in the PBS children's TV series ""Arthur"", Huckle Cat on ""The Busy World of Richard Scarry"", Polly Esther in the English version of ""Samurai Pizza Cats"", Nicole in the ""Madeline"" TV specials, and Marina and Hedwig in the English version of ""Adventures of the Little Mermaid"". She also did the voice for 5 year old Wimzie, the boisterous and happy go lucky bird-dragon, in the children's TV series ""Wimzie's House"". Ball is"
"Natalie Ogle Natalie Ogle (born 1960) is an English actress. She worked extensively in television and theatre during the 1970s and the 1980s and is still active in the industry. She played Letty Mundy in the successful TV series ""We'll Meet Again"" as well as appearing in several televised costume dramas such as ""David Copperfield"", ""Pride and Prejudice"" and ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" as Little Nell. Her film roles include Fanny Goodwill in ""Joseph Andrews"" (1977) and as Maddy in the Joan Collins film ""The Stud"" (1978). Natalie is married to the actor, Clive Francis, and they have two children."
"Natalie Ogle Natalie Ogle (born 1960) is an English actress. She worked extensively in television and theatre during the 1970s and the 1980s and is still active in the industry. She played Letty Mundy in the successful TV series ""We'll Meet Again"" as well as appearing in several televised costume dramas such as ""David Copperfield"", ""Pride and Prejudice"" and ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" as Little Nell. Her film roles include Fanny Goodwill in ""Joseph Andrews"" (1977) and as Maddy in the Joan Collins film ""The Stud"" (1978). Natalie is married to the actor, Clive Francis, and they have two children."
"Worzel Gummidge (TV series) Worzel Gummidge is a children's sitcom, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the ""Worzel Gummidge"" books by English author Barbara Euphan Todd. Beginning in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. On a countdown of the greatest British children's programmes, this series was number 50 in the 50 Greatest Kids TV Shows on Channel 5 on 8 November 2013. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as ""Worzel Gummidge Down Under"", which was set in New Zealand. In 1979, a television"
"Onedin""), Marc Harrison (""William Frazer""), Christopher Douglas (""Samuel Onedin""), Roberta Iger (""Margarita Onedin""), Jenny Twigge (""Caroline Onedin""), Cyril Shaps (""Braganza""), Hilda Braid (""Miss Simmonds""), David Garfield (""Samuel Plimsoll""), Robert James (""Rowland Biddulph""), Sylvia Coleridge (""Mrs Salt""), Sonia Dresdel (""Lady Lazenby""), Nicolette Roeg (""Ada Gamble""), John Rapley (""Dunwoody""), Stephanie Bidmead (""Mrs Darling""), John Sharp (""Uncle Percy Spendilow""), Heather Canning (""Mrs Arkwright""), Keith Jayne (""Tom Arnold""), Frederick Jaeger (""Max van der Rheede""), Edward Judd (""Manuel Ortega""), Elizabeth Chambers (""Miss Gladstone""), Jack Watson (""Dr Darling""), Paul Lavers (""Francis Polter/David Teal"") and Maurice Colbourne (""Viscount Marston""). Victoria Thomas is a female child actress who"
"Sarah Thomas (actress) Sarah Jane Thomas (born 5 June 1952) is a British actress, born in London, probably best known for her television appearances as Enid Simmons in ""Worzel Gummidge"" (1980), and as Glenda Wilkinson in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (1986–2010). Thomas also made a brief cameo appearance in the fifth episode of the original Blackadder series (1983), 'the Witchsmeller Pursuivant', as a peasant girl who dies of the Black Death in the pre-credit sequence. She also appeared in a Christmas episode of Heartbeat (December 29, 1996), called 'Charity Begins at Home.' Thomas began her career on screen when"
"in 1968 with Judi Dench in the role of Sally. West End revivals have featured Kelly Hunter (1986), Toyah Willcox (1987), Jane Horrocks (1993) and Anna Maxwell Martin (2006) playing the part. Samantha Barks portrayed the role in the 2008—2009 UK National Tour. In 1972, the stage musical adaptation was in turn adapted as a film directed by Bob Fosse. The 1972 film's depiction of Sally significantly differs from earlier incarnations in that she is not British but American. According to unaccredited screenwriter Hugh Wheeler, he was tasked by ABC Pictures with bowdlerizing the source material and was forced to"
"be produced in Ireland, but these failed. HTV continued with their plans to produce the show in Ireland but these plans fell through because of trade union problems, as did attempts by the same company to make further episodes in England, although the scripts that Waterhouse & Hall had written for the Irish episodes were published in book form. Pertwee and Stubbs starred in the musical ""Worzel Gummidge"" in 1981 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre which also starred Lucy Benjamin (then Lucy Jane Baker) as Sue. Jon Pertwee's final TV appearance as Worzel was in 1995, to celebrate 40 years"
"Vanda Godsell Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 11 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, ""Vanda Godsell specialised in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies and blowsy domestics."" She appeared as Mrs. Weaver in ""This Sporting Life"" (1963), Mrs. Pitt in ""Bitter Harvest"" (1965), Mrs. Goodge in ""The Wrong Box"" (1967) She was born near Bristol into the well known Godsell family, best known for its brewery based in Stroud. Her father was an officer in the Navy and served in the Battle of Jutland whilst her mother, Muriel, was the sister of novelist and actress"
"Anna Karen Anna Karen (born Ana Caren Krege on 19 September 1936) is a British film, television and theatre actress. A regular in soaps and comedy, her best-known roles are in the sitcoms ""On the Buses"" and ""The Rag Trade"". She has also appeared in BBC TV's ""EastEnders"" from 1996 on a recurring basis as Aunt Sal. Early in her career, Anna Karen worked as a striptease dancer at London's Panama Club. She has appeared in many films and television programmes, including the BBC sitcom ""Wild, Wild Women"", between 1968 and 1969. That same year she played a schoolgirl in"
"Samantha Bond Samantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, perhaps best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the series' Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on ""Downton Abbey"" as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also well-known for originating the role of ""Miz Liz"" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Samantha Bond is the daughter of actor Philip Bond and TV producer Pat Sandys, and is the sister of the"
"2008/09, she again starred as the Fairy Godmother in ""Cinderella"", at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, alongside Su Pollard and Chris Jarvis. From December 2009 to January 2010 she appeared in ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" at the Malvern Theatre, alongside Mike Fischetti and Colin Baker. Sarah Thomas (actress) Sarah Jane Thomas (born 5 June 1952) is a British actress, born in London, probably best known for her television appearances as Enid Simmons in ""Worzel Gummidge"" (1980), and as Glenda Wilkinson in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (1986–2010). Thomas also made a brief cameo appearance in the fifth episode of the"
"Sammie Winmill Sammie Winmill (born Janice Winmill, 28 November 1948) is a British actress who had a number of roles in the 1970s, best known for portraying Carol in the Sci-fi series ""The Tomorrow People"". Her first noted appearance was alongside Ronnie Barker in the comedy ""Futtock's End"" in 1970. Following small roles with Frankie Howerd in the films of ""Up Pompeii"" and ""Up the Chastity Belt"" (1971) she secured a regular part in the sitcom ""Doctor in Charge"" in 1972 playing Nurse Sandra Crumpton. This role ran for six episodes of the first series. Soon after she appeared as"
"Sally Phillips Sally Elizabeth Phillips (born 10 May 1969) is an English actress, television presenter and comedian. She co-created and was one of the writers of sketch comedy show ""Smack the Pony"". She is also known for her main role in ""Miranda"" as Tilly, ""I'm Alan Partridge"" as Sophie, ""Parents"" as Jenny Pope and ""Set the Thames on Fire"" as Colette in 2015. Phillips also co-starred in ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"", as Mrs Bennet, and the role of Sharon in all three films of the ""Bridget Jones"" franchise. Since 2004, Phillips has played the title role in the BBC"
"Sally Mortemore Sally Mortemore is an English stage, film and television actress. She appeared in ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"", where she played Madame Pince, the librarian of Hogwarts. Mortemore first worked in theatre as an acting assistant stage manager at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch followed by seasons at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke, Watford's Palace Theatre, Bolton's Octagon Theatre and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent. She also toured with the David Glass Ensemble, Red Shift, Cleanbreak Theatre Company and Great Eastern Stage. Mortemore appeared as Gertrude in David Glass' production of ""Gormenghast"" in 2006/2007. Her"
"sensible Max (Max Bartlett); Shirley Temple analog Curley Dimples (played by adult Gael Dixon, also the show's choreographer); beautiful enchantress Crystal Ball (Gabrielle Hartley) and her pet, Hep Cat (Nola Finn); Marlena DeWitch (Marion Weir); and villainous Sir Jasper Crookly (Ernie Bourne) and his henchman Gaspar Goblin (Colin McEwan). Recurring guest characters included BoBo the clown, Montmorency James Rabbit (Ernie Bourne), Sebastian Bear, and Aunty Vale (Bunney Brooke). Twoddle & Boddle (Laurie Allen and Bobby Bright, aka Bobby & Laurie of The Go!! Show) were analogs of Tweedledee & Tweedledum, characters the pair had played previously in a pantomime. Max"
"Barbara Euphan Todd Barbara Euphan Todd (9 January 1890 – 2 February 1976) was an English writer widely remembered for her ten books for children about a scarecrow called Worzel Gummidge. These were adapted for radio and television. The title story was chosen as the first in the new publisher's series Puffin Books. Todd was born at Arksey, near Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as the only child of an Anglican vicar, Thomas Todd, and Alice Maud Mary (""née"" Bentham). She was brought up in the village of Soberton in Hampshire and was educated at St Catherine's"
"Victoria Wicks Victoria Wicks (born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks; 18 April 1959) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Sally Smedley in Channel 4's award-winning comedy series ""Drop the Dead Donkey"" (1990-1998). Her other television roles include Mrs. Gideon in ""The Mighty Boosh"" (2004), and the College Director in ""Skins"" (2007–08). Her film appearances include ""The Imitation Game"" (2014) and ""High-Rise"" (2015). She is an Associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, the Wrestling School. Wicks was born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, to Brian and Judith Wicks. Wicks's mother, Judith Bates, born 1933,"
"Sally Thomsett Sally Thomsett (born 3 April 1950) is an English actress who was born in Sussex, England. She appeared in the film ""The Railway Children"" (1970) and played Jo in the TV sitcom, ""Man About the House"" (1973–76). She also appeared in the film, ""Straw Dogs"" (1971). In 1970, Thomsett was cast as the 11-year-old Phyllis, despite the actress being 20 years old at the time, three years older than Jenny Agutter, who played her elder sister, Bobbie. Her contract forbade her to reveal her true age during the making of the film, and she was not allowed to"
"Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", Jess in the television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and her childhood roles of Sue in ""Worzel Gummidge"" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for"
"Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", Jess in the television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and her childhood roles of Sue in ""Worzel Gummidge"" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for"
"Lynn Dalby Lynn Dalby (born 17 February 1947) is an English actress. Dalby was born in Harrogate. She is most notable for her role as Ruth Merrick Sugden in the soap opera ""Emmerdale Farm"" in 1972. Dalby starred as Hazel in the 1970s series ""Budgie"", which also starred Adam Faith, of which 26 episodes were made in 1970 and 1971. She trained at the Corona Theatre School with future Emmerdale co-star Frazer Hines. She appeared in ""Crossroads"" as a secretary called Rita Hughes, and acted in the 1975 horror film ""Legend of the Werewolf"", before starring in the crime drama"
"Aunt Sal Aunt Sal is a recurring fictional character from the BBC soap opera ""EastEnders"", played by Anna Karen Introduced in 1996, she has appeared sporadically from 21 March 1996 until 29 December 1997, then from 28 September 2001 until 17 September 2004, 19 July 2007 until 4 April 2011 and 22 November 2013 onwards. She appears for just a few episodes at a time, and , she has been collectively featured in 57 episodes of the show since 1996. She has, on occasion, been credited as Sal Martin, which is her and Peggy's maiden name; Sal's married name is"
"Amy Walsh (actress) Amy Walsh (born 28 March 1987) is a British television actress. She is mainly known for her role as Tracy Shankley on ""Emmerdale"". Walsh was born on 28 March 1987 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the daughter of John and Diane Walsh. She grew up with three siblings, Kimberley Walsh, Sally Walsh and Adam Walsh in Allerton, West Yorkshire. Her sibling Kimberley is a member of the girl group Girls Aloud, and Sally played the character of Lyn Hutchinson on the soap opera ""Emmerdale"" between 1997 and 2000. Walsh's first television role was in 2011 playing the character"