"addition, future ""Double Deckers"" cast members Brinsley Forde and Michael Audreson were among the stars of ""Six and a Half"", and Melvyn Hayes appeared in a few episodes. ""Six and a Half"" also featured several gags and plotlines that would later be reused in ""Double Deckers"". Here Come the Double Deckers Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970 to 1971, revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused junk yard. A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and the television"
"the series' theme song, and acted as a dialogue coach for the series. Bailey is now head of the drama department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Peter Firth has gone on to a prominent acting career, appearing in ""Equus"", ""The Hunt for Red October"", ""Tess"", ""Pearl Harbor"" and ""Spooks"" (""MI-5""). Co-star Brinsley Forde later became the lead singer in Aswad. The programme made its debut on 12 September 1970 at 10:30 am ET in the US on ABC, and at 4:55 pm on 1 January 1971 in Britain on BBC 1. In the US, the series was repeated on"
"Ace of Wands Ace of Wands is a British fantasy children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a tarot card, describes the principal character, called ""Tarot"" (played by Michael MacKenzie), who combined stage magic with supernatural powers. Tarot has a pet Owl named Ozymandias, played by Fred Owl. The series was replaced by ""The Tomorrow People"" in 1973. ""Ace of Wands"" ran for two seasons of thirteen episodes and a third season of twenty. The first two seasons"
"as Postmaster, Sylvia Coleridge as Letty Edgington, James Bree as the Major. 4 episodes. Two beautiful girls Dee (Susan Glanville) and Emm (Vivian Heilbron) refuse Mikki entrance to a small town fete, which leads Tarot into an investigation of extraterrestrials with strange powers. With Edward Hammond as Jay, Kathleen Sainsbury as Elderly Woman. Ace of Wands Ace of Wands is a British fantasy children's television show broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972, created by Trevor Preston and Pamela Lonsdale and produced by Thames Television. The title, taken from the name of a tarot card, describes the principal character, called"
"have been two other tie-in books based on ""Bod"", by Alison and Lo Cole, the children of creators Joanne and Michael Cole. ""Bod's Way: The Meaning of Life"" was being worked on by Michael Cole before he died in 2001, and was completed by Alison. The books reveal the Taoist beliefs of Bod's original creators. Bod is a fictional deity in the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy ""Nebulous"", and the ""Bod"" theme music is heard in one episode. Bod (TV series) Bod is a BBC1 children's television programme first shown in 1975, with thirteen episodes, based on four original"
"major television success was in 1970 as refuse depot manager ""Bloody Delilah"" in the ITV sitcom ""The Dustbinmen"". He showed his sinister side as the mischievous magician Mr Peacock in the children's drama series ""Ace of Wands"" between 1970 and 1972. That year he starred as a murderer in ""The Uninvited"", an episode of the BBC's supernatural thriller series ""Out of the Unknown"". Also in 1971, in the television drama ""Elizabeth R"", Wilde played the efficient, merciless 'rackmaster' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London. He played a character in the 1970s"
"kids. The then five-year-old Beard came to the series a year after the transition from the silent/early talkie era ""Our Gang"". He had the exclusive distinction of being with the gang from ""Miss Crabtree"" talkies of the early 1930s, through the mid-thirties transitional period, up until the era of the more familiar group of Spanky, Alfalfa, and Buckwheat, who would ultimately replace Stymie in 1935. Beard's paycheck was used to help support his East Los Angeles family, including thirteen brothers and sisters. After Beard renamed his younger brother Bobbie ""Cotton"" (which was also used as Bobbie's ""Our Gang"" character name),"
"Andy Pandy Andy Pandy is a British children's television series that premiered on BBC TV in summer 1950. Originally live, a series of 13 filmed programmes was shown in 1970, when a new series was made. A reboot of the show was made in 2001. The show was the basis for a comic strip of the same name in the children's magazines ""Robin"" and ""Pippin"". The original version of ""Andy Pandy"" premiered on BBC TV in 1950, on either 11 July or 20 June, as part of the ""For the Children"" strand (later ""Watch with Mother"") narrated by Maria Bird."
"he founded the Amphonic Music company and record label for the express purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying production music to the TV, film and radio business. In 1970 his track ""Marching There and Back"" was used as the theme music to the BBC Television children's programme ""Screen Test"", presented initially by Michael Rodd. Through the 1970s and 1980s his ""The Hellraisers"" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service ""Outlook"" topical programme. It was also used as the theme music to ""Orlando"", a children's television thriller serial starring Sam Kydd which ran"
"""Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life"", ""If It Moves File It"", ""Dangerous Brothers"", ""A Very Peculiar Practice"" and ""My Father Knew Lloyd George"", as well as in ""The Secret Policeman's Other Ball"". Bird also acted straight and comic roles in several television series and in films such as ""A Dandy in Aspic"" (1968), ""30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia"" (1968), ""This, That and the Other"" (1969), ""Take A Girl Like You"" (1970), ""Jabberwocky"" (1977), ""The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"" (1976), and ""Yellow Pages"" (1988). During the 1970s, when Idi Amin was at the height of his infamy, Bird"
"London from 1968–1971. His career before ""Rainbow"" was highly successful; he appeared in numerous London theatre productions, most notably playing Brad in ""The Rocky Horror Show"" in the West End. He appeared in dozens of commercials and famous TV series including ""Z-Cars"", ""The Sweeney"", ""The Professionals"" and ""Churchill's People"". In 1979 Freddy auditioned to join the cast of ""Rainbow"", the award-winning children's TV show, when they were looking for a new musician/singer/songwriter to replace Roger Walker, who had quit the show in order to focus on acting. Freddy got the job immediately and joined the two existing musicians Rod Burton"
"to him writing the music for the three-part AFI Award-winning 1970 film ""Three To Go"" (in which he also had a small acting role), for which Weir directed one segment. Bond also provided the music and played a leading role in Weir's first film, the 1971 short feature ""Homesdale"". Aunty Jack was created for a proposed ABC Radio children's radio series, ""The Aunty Jack Show"", commissioned by Paddy Conroy (former head of ABC TV and now cable channel manager). It was intended to replace the long-running children's radio series ""The Argonauts Club"", which was about to be cancelled. The new"
"Desmond Askew Desmond Askew (born 17 December 1972) is an English actor of film and television. In 1983 he had the lead role of 'naughty schoolboy' in the promo video of the Wham! single ""Bad Boys"". He has appeared in films such as ""Go"" (1999), ""Repli-Kate"" (2002), ""The Hills Have Eyes"" (2006) and ""Turistas"" (2006). He has appeared in episodic television on series such as ""Grange Hill"", ""Las Vegas"", ""Charmed"", the short-lived ""Then Came You"", and as the recurring character Brody Davis on ""Roswell"". He also voiced many minor characters (including Jowan and Chanter Devons) in the 2009 video game"
"1969 to 1973, by the actor Derek Fowlds (known as ""Mr Derek""); then until 1976 by actor and singer Roy North (""Mr Roy""); then by ""Mr Howard"" Howard Williams, who was in the original ""Three Scampies""; and finally by ""Mr Billy"" (Billy Boyle). By the mid-1970s the show was aimed at a family audience, so was usually broadcast on BBC1 in an early evening timeslot on Saturdays (although in the early days it had aired during children's programmes on Thursdays, before the evening news at 5:45 pm), typically running for 13 weeks in each series. The show was recorded in"
"1989, starting on The Disney Channel, and later moving to WTBS. On the show, Osmond played Eddie Haskell as a husband and father, while his character's two sons, Freddie Haskell and Edward ""Bomber"" Haskell Jr., were played by Osmond's two real-life sons, Eric Osmond and Christian Osmond, respectively. In 1987, Osmond was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star ""Lifetime Achievement"" Award for his role as Eddie Haskell. He continued to make television appearances throughout the 1980s and 1990s on the shows ""Happy Days"", ""Rags to Riches"", and the television movie ""High School U.S.A."", as well"
"Boswell in five series of ""The Liver Birds"", from 1975 to 1979. ""The Liver Birds"" was recently run on the Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK. Estensen took the lead role of T-Bag in the children's television programme ""Wonders in Letterland"" (1985), and went on to appear in a total of five series and two Christmas specials before leaving in 1989. She was replaced by Georgina Hale. Estensen played Pam Middleton in ""Coronation Street"" between 1996 and 1998. From 1999 she has played a regular role as Diane Sugden in the soap opera ""Emmerdale"" for 18 years. She married Philip"
"Ronald Forfar Ronald Forfar (born 1939, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK ) is a British actor who has appeared in many roles since the 1970s, including the role of Freddie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy ""Bread"". Other parts include a tax inspector, Costello The Second, in Alan Bleasdale's ""The Muscle Market"" (a Boys from the Blackstuff prequel) and The Soothsayer in Herbert Wise's BBC television adaption of ""Julius Caesar"". Shakespearian roles include Bates in ""Henry V"" and First Officer in Laurence Olivier's version of ""King Lear"". He has also appeared in The Sweeney, Tutti Frutti, Chucklevision (as 'Professor Frimley'), The"
"the radio and decided both it and a shaggy puppeteer named Jim Henson would be perfect additions to the show. First performed by Jim Henson (Kermit, ""et al.""), Frank Oz (Fozzie Bear, ""et al"".) and Loretta Long (Susan) on the fourteenth episode of the long running children's show broadcast on November 27, 1969, the song entered the public consciousness of the latter half of Baby Boomer children. The following Sunday when Henson and His Muppets performed the song on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" it became an instant classic. Seven years later the song would also be part of the premiere"
"Bod (TV series) Bod is a BBC1 children's television programme first shown in 1975, with thirteen episodes, based on four original ""Bod"" books by Joanne and Michael Cole. It is a cel animated cartoon series narrated by John Le Mesurier and Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths and produced by David Yates. The four books were published in 1965 in the United Kingdom and later in the United States and France. They are: ""Bod's Apple"", ""Bod's Present"", ""Bod's Dream"" and ""Bod and the Cherry Tree"". The French version of ""Bod's Apple"" is called ""La Pomme de Gus"". Before the"
"an actor by that name on their books. After ""Kes"" was released in 1970, Bradley joined the cast of the children's television programme ""The Flaxton Boys"" as Peter Weekes in series two, and starred as Terry Connor in the children's adventure serial ""The Jensen Code"" in 1973. He also had guest roles in episodes of popular, established drama series such as ""Z Cars"" and ""A Family at War"". While he did not receive the same media attention for his subsequent film performances as he did for ""Kes"", Bradley received solid reviews for his theatre acting. Notably, he was cast as"
"""neat"", ""sweet"" and ""petite"". Mizzy's theme was popular enough to enjoy a release as a 45-rpm single, though it failed to make the U.S. charts. The song was revived for the 1992 animated series, as well as in 2007 for a series of Addams Family television commercials for M&M's chocolates. For both seasons, episodes aired Friday nights at 8:30 p.m. The show has been aired worldwide. In the United Kingdom, it first aired on ITV in 1965–1966, and then it appeared on Sky 1 in 1991 and ran until 1992. and then it was aired on BBC Two from 6"
"their instruments. None of the actors sang background; they lip-synched to recorded singing by the Ron Hicklin Singers, composed of brothers John and Tom Bahler, Jackie Ward (who as Robin Ward had a #14 hit ""Wonderful Summer"" on Dot Records in 1963 ), and Ron Hicklin. Actor David Cassidy was originally to lip sync with the rest of the cast, but convinced Farrell that he could sing and was allowed to join the studio ensemble as the lead singer. He and his step-mother, Shirley, are the only two show actors allowed to sing for recording. ""The Partridge Family"" theme song,"
"for the characters to solve using their reading skills, which was also reflected in the material given to pupils. Each serial was also written with a limited vocabulary in mind, each of the keywords paced through the piece a certain number of times so they held a certain relevance above other words. They used Alphakids mostly when words appeared. During the 1970s the programme began to bring in many new elements for a new generation of viewers. Popular new educational songs were introduced which would remain until into the 90s as well as the character Wordy (see below). In the"
"bond, as Syd (Greer Goodman) and Dex (Donal Logue) find out that they both had Bugaloos stickers on their respective childhood ""Josie and the Pussycats"" lunchboxes. The Bugaloos was mentioned in an episode of Jeopardy as a question on the show in 2002 The Bugaloos The Bugaloos is an American children's television series, produced by brothers Sid and Marty Krofft, that aired on NBC on Saturday mornings from 1970 to 1972. Reruns of the show aired in daily syndication from 1978 to 1985 as part of the ""Krofft Superstars"" package with six other Krofft series. The show features a musical"
"ITV companies, the station also produced a nightly Epilogue under the title of ""Faith for Life"", produced largely from the continuity studio. In 1980, Westward produced ""Maggie's Moor"", a seven part networked children's drama series about a young girl living on Dartmoor during the Second World War. It starred Tamar le Bailly as Maggie and was produced and directed by John King, the father of wildlife photographer and presenter Simon King, who featured as ""The Buzzard Boy"" in Episode 5. Agriculture was an important industry in South West England during Westward Television's franchise. Approximately 80% of land in South West"
"Children's Ward Children's Ward (retitled The Ward from 1995 to 1998) is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its ""Children's ITV"" strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital (known as Sparky's), and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, ""Children's Ward"" was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to"
"high-grossing Burt Reynolds comedy ""The Cannonball Run"" (1981), and as the shrewish wife of Rodney Dangerfield's character in ""Back to School"" (1986). Barbeau also starred, alongside future talk show host Bill Maher and actress and model Shannon Tweed, in the comedy ""Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death"" (1989). In the 1990s, Barbeau mostly appeared in made-for-television films such as Scott Turow's ""The Burden of Proof"" (1992), as well as playing Oswald's mother on ""The Drew Carey Show"" and gaining new fame among animation fans as Catwoman on """" and ""Gotham Girls"". She was also in the ABC show"
"The Partridge Family The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones played a widowed mother, and Cassidy played the oldest of her five children who embarked on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the pilot episode, a group of musical siblings in the fictitious city of"
"(vocals performed by Maria Darling); a yellow-and-blue ball. The new series was narrated by actor Tom Conti. While the emphasis of the original series was on music and movement, the emphasis of the 2001 series was on making and doing. Listed are the episodes in each series, along with their songs (if any): Andy Pandy Andy Pandy is a British children's television series that premiered on BBC TV in summer 1950. Originally live, a series of 13 filmed programmes was shown in 1970, when a new series was made. A reboot of the show was made in 2001. The show"
"Cowsill singing lead vocals, peaked at #2. The Cowsills made regular television appearances, which led to Columbia Pictures considering a sitcom based on their story and starring most of the members of the band; the deal was abandoned when the producers of the show wanted to replace Barbara in the cast. The show would later become ""The Partridge Family"", with David Cassidy playing the lead singer and Shirley Jones as the mother. It was commonly thought that Cowsill's involvement with the family band came to an abrupt end in 1969 when his father, Bud, caught him smoking marijuana, and he"
"on their 1978 album ""A Song For All Seasons"". The full series was released on Network DVD in July 2013. Two novels by William Humble based on the series were released by children's paperback publisher Target Books. The Paper Lads The Paper Lads was a children's television series produced by Tyne Tees Television and broadcast nationally from 1977 to 1979. It was set in the northern industrial city of Newcastle upon Tyne and recounted the adventures of a group of newspaper delivery boys and a girl. There were two series made, each of seven episodes. William Corlett's four scripts for"
"It starred James Bate (as Arnold), Milton Johns and Sheila Ruskin. There were eight episodes. The Intruder (Townsend novel) The Intruder is a children's novel by John Rowe Townsend, published in 1969. It was well-received, being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and winning the Horn Book Award in 1970 and the Edgar Award in 1971. The book was adapted for television in 1971. Sixteen-year-old Arnold Haithwaite is a sand pilot guiding parties of tourists over the sands at Skirlston (when the Admiral is not feeling up to it). But Arnold's quiet life is shattered when a stranger turns up claiming"
"Rod, Jane and Freddy Rod, Jane and Freddy were a singing trio who appeared in children's programming on the British TV channel ITV in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. They starred both in the long-running series ""Rainbow"" and their own 15-minute show, The Rod, Jane and Freddy Show. The trio have also made guest appearances in other children's TV shows including ""The Sooty Show"". The original trio consisted of Rod Burton, Jane Tucker and Matthew Corbett, when they were known as ""Rod, Matt and Jane"". Corbett left the trio in 1976 to continue hosting ""The Sooty Show"" after his"