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PIE IN THE SKY
(MID 1980s)
BBC
"PIE SHIP to pieman!" Miniscule-budgeted PLAY SCHOOL side order about a bloke (IAN "FINGERMOUSE" LAUCHLAN) who made pies for the children of the village, and called on a squeaky-voiced alien in a UFO pieship (BEN THOMAS) to "fill them with a song". A different song and story each week. More variety than your school canteen, mind.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...THE PIEMAN ALSO HAD A "PIEWIFE", IMPECCABLY PLAYED BY CAROL LEADER
THEY NEVER learned how to do hands properly, did they? Flared of arm and cosmopolitan of make up, the residents of Pigeon Street pottered about their middling adventures, with a song here, a joke there, and nary a care for the rising tide of garbage conservatism threatening their peaceful, multi-cultural existence. Long Distance Clara, Mr. MacAdoo, that perv with the telescope, all human life was here. With flappy, distended hands. GEORGE LAYTON provided the voices for these airbrushed cutout capers. Pigeons played minor role, as did classic '80s electro tom-toms.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD SAY "HELLO" "GOODBYE" "HELLO" "GOODBYE" EVERYDAY
THE PINCHCLIFFE GRAND PRIX
(EARLY 1980s)
AN ODD (and rather depressing, frankly) feature-length stop-motion cartoon about a kindly old inventor bloke (standard issue stereotype - thick glasses, grey hair, absent-minded) who lived in a house with a duck (called "Sonny Duckworth", for fuck's sake) and a sort of hairy Captain Caveman-style twat who ate liquorice allsorts. There was a car race, and so he invented a car to beat the local baddie, and win the heart of the local bread-selling woman, or something. Easter holiday daytime "treat".
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."COULD YOU SPARE ANOTHER LIQUORICE ALLSORT FOR A POOR CHAP?" NO.
THE PINK MEDICINE SHOW
(1978)
LWT
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE of a Friday night as written and performed by DR. CHRIS BEETLES and DR. ROB BUCKMAN with LYNDA "PRESTON" BELLINGHAM. Sketches included a spoof advert done like the old "try a taste of Martini" ads with lots of floating about in balloons, and which ended with a picture of a right-sided truss and the caption "Martilini - the right one". Then an addition "We also make the left one".
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...FRANKLY IRRESPONSIBLE THEME SONG ADVISED "THINK PINK MEDICINE/DRINK PINK MEDICINE"
THE PINK PANTHER SHOW
(1970-77)
DEPATIE-FRELENG
LET'S GET the order right here. First came THE PINK PANTHER SHOW, starring your "rinky-dink Panther" of gentleman, scholar and "acrobat" persuasion, boasting utterly unrelated cadging-a-lift-off-a-boy-driving-through-the-desert titles and The Inspector for half-time entertainment ("Judo! Don't say 'si', say 'oui'!" "Si - I mean oui"). These were imperial antics, with the jive-walking feline mostly getting one over generic big-nosed all-white workmen and using his tail as an umbrella/pogo stick/electrical wire/hat stand as appropriate. Next up was THE ALL NEW PINK PANTHER SHOW, which had the funked-up version of the classic Mancini theme, and Pink coming out of a shower, drying himself with a hair dryer and turning into a big pink furball. These were the ones "introducing" Crazylegs Crane, and Pink disco dancing at the end. Finally came THE NEW PINK PANTHER SHOW, which was presumably made between the first two, but which came bearing the rotten Aardvark ("And the Aardvark too!") and the brilliant "Yes sir, it's all for you, and funnier too!" titles.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...ANY EPISODE WHERE PINK STARTED "TALKING" WAS AUTOMATICALLY RUBBISH
FINAL PRODUCTION to date (and probably forever) from the worksheds of OLIVER POSTGATE and PETER FIRMIN. MATILDA THORPE narrated, based on Firmin's books about a decidedly uninteresting doll of tiny size, and...that was it. Not the finest of finales.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...NOT SEEN SINCE THE END OF DAYTIME ON TWO
LUNCHTIME, NEW Year's Day, 1973, and what do we find? "This is Mr. Pipkin's workshop. Come on in and look around. See all those puppets? Well, Mr. Pipkin made them and they are rather special, for they can dance and sing just like humans. Oh yes, the chap with the saw is Johnny, Mr. Pipkin's assistant, who has just completed his first animal, an impressive dragon. As you look around the workshop, you'll notice many fascinating things which fit into the stories you can see during the coming weeks." An inauspicious billing for INIGO PIPKIN (as it then was), a MICHAEL JEANS production starring good old GEORGE WOODBRIDGE, original voice of Mr Kipling's cakes and the innkeeper in any number of Hammer Dracula films as the titular marionettesmith, and WAYNE "ACE REPORTS" LAREYA as Johnny. The theme music was a sixties-type song "It's Inigo Pipkin, Inigo Pipkin, Inigo the puppet may-kuh. Oh-oooh!" etc.
The initial puppet cast ran to just cantankerous Hartley Hare and miserly Tortoise - the first few shows concerned themselves with the construction of cowboy-hatted monkey puppet Topov. Inigo's nephew Fred (ROYCE MILLS) and friendly Bertha (JUMOKE DEBAYO) dropped by occasionally. Next to be made was Octavia the Ostrich, the construction of which bothered Hartley, who tried to hamper proceedings "by showing pictures of his uncle who went on a train", but to little avail. Later the menagerie expanded to include Tortoise's cousin Turtle and, when Tortoise fell ill, scary humanoid puppet Dr Stethoscope.
Woodbridge died in 1973, so the following year, after a programme dealing with Inigo's death with a frankness seldom seen in children's television, the show became merely PIPKINS, the theme changed to a jaunty kids' chorus detailing the actions of the Pipkin Puppet Van, and slash-mouthed foamy Brummie gourmand Pig was added to the gang.
Highlights included -
- a tour of a supermarket (puppets precariously balanced around rim of trolley and on bloke's shoulders as elderly shoppers looked on, askance);
- Hartley visiting long-lost "Uncle" in carrot patch;
- The inevitable "It's time..." tick tock tick tock "...FOR THE STORY!" pronouncement with loads of clocks on the wall.
- a loopy reconstruction of the story of the Lambton Worm, with aforementioned H. Hare continually instigating Ken Russell-style hallucinogenic deviations from prescribed plot, much to chagrin of companions;
- and the infamous "ODD MAN OUT" episode, where a series of straightforward parlour games were invariably ruined by Hartley's Freudian obsession with a fish-slice.
Probably THE definitive seventies children's show this side of the Atlantic, all told. NIGEL "MALCOLM" PLASKITT narrated and operated/voiced Hartley/Tortoise and Dr Steth, while HEATHER TOBIAS filled in for Pig, Topov and co. In '81, the programme bowed out (Hartley "Next week there will be a new programme, with new people!") in favour of Jeans' LET'S PRETEND. Many viewers still harbour a Hartleyesque grudge about that to this day.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."AND THE ODD ONE OUT, AGAIN, IS..." "THE FISH SLICE!" "CAN YOU REFEREE, TORTOISE?" "YOU WEAR A HAT, YOU WEAR A COAT. BUT YOU DO NOT WEAR A FISH SLICE!"
PLANET OF THE APES
(1974-75)
CBS
FRIPPERSOME FRANCISE extension of the films, which by this point had got some crap nobody gave a toss anyway. DePatie-Freleng did RETURN TO... as a cartoon series at about the same time, but this bilious effort boasted the original "Oscar-winning" rubber masks, plus RODDY MACDOWELL, and BOOTH COLMAN as rapping body-popping Dr Zaius.
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..."GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!" - CRIED THE VIEWERS
BEST KNOWN of several silent comedy shorts familiar from local screenings and summer holiday TV. ERIC SYKES was the originator of this epic following two workmen (Sykes and TOMMY COOPER - a later 1979 Thames remake replaced Cooper with ARTHUR "MR. MEN" LOWE) chasing a - ahem - plank around London. Dustcarts, plank on van roof, Jimmy Edwards trying to get on a bicycle, Malthouse Passage...you remember!
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...THE ORIGINAL
PLASTIC MAN
(1970s)
RUBY-SPEARS
FLOPPY FIFTIES hero had semi-aware technicolouru adventures with the regulation fat, Hawaiian-shirted sidekick and (latterly) "Baby Plas".
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."I'LL STRETCH MYSELF OUT SO I'M ONE MOLECULE WIDE!"
CAMP SONGS and stories for the under-12s, masterminded by incomparable BRIAN CANT. Other participants included all your 'SCHOOL regulars plus a few guests: TONI ARTHUR, JULIE STEVENS, CAROL CHELL, ANNE-MARIE HACKETT, TONY ROBINSON, JEREMY IRONS, JULIE COVINGTON, ANITA DOBSON, NERYS HUGHES et al. Musical director and leader of the Play Away Players was your man JOHNATHAN COHEN. It really didn't matter if it was raining, or indeed if it was fine. Just as long as you had time.
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..."WE'RE A PAIR! WE'RE A PAIR! WHAT ARE WE A PAIR OF?"
THE SUN'S in the sky, schools out for eight weeks...so why not draw the curtains so there's no light on the telly and tune in to PLAY CHESS. Long-haired bloke in sweater teaches socially malcontent kids in glasses and bowlcuts the rudiments of the board game. They sat on PLAY SCHOOL-type coloured blocks. They orignally had a board showing moves for the TV where you could clearly see the silhouette of the bloke standing behind it moving the two-dimensional "pieces". Later Psion Chess on an Atari ST was deployed. Scary titles where animated pieces rose up out of the board and loomed ominously towards the camera. Is that an ice-cream van outside.........?
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."KB-KR3"
PLAY FOR TODAY/THE WEDNESDAY PLAY
(1964-84)
BBC
EVERYTHING AND the kitchen sink.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...AND...CUE THE SILENT CRY OF RAGE!
ANOTHER INSTALLMENT in that rich seam of Sunday morning cheapo edutainment. This one had bearded, softly-spoken bloke ULF GORAN on a stool showing kids how to play "Greensleeves", "Early One Morning" and "House Of The Rising Sun".
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."D, D7, G. THAT'S CALLED A CADENCE"
PLAY SCHOOL
(1964-88)
BBC
WHAT'S THE day?
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...USEFUL BOX DAY!
PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT
(1980-87)
LWT
IT'S 5.15PM, work's over, Thames have fucked off, "and dealing the first hand of the weekend, right on time, Bruce Forsyth." Hooray! It's massively over-spent lavish LE bollocks from the South Bank till Sunday. US import, piss-easy rules, BOB MONKHOUSE turned it down, lifeline for post-BIG NIGHT in-the-doldrums FORSYTH. Early years the best, with the man still at his peak, a-riffing and a-gurning round endless reworkings of how-stupid-is-this-person patter. Absolute skeleton of a premise guaranteed, nay, demanded, full deployment of Brucie armoury leading to stunning parade of phraseology ("Get nothing for a pair…Could still be a big night…Hang loose/back in a deuce…" etc.) Toss in hapless punters and bevy of giant-sized card wielding fatales, and resulting money-spinner kept LWT in pocket during alleged early 80s pauper years. Highlight of highlights: after dutifully checking with the floor manager ("How long have we got?"), spare transmission minutes would be utilised for show-stealing here's-a-fiver routine with the host effortlessly working the entire studio audience. Typical later decline, with Bruce getting bored, buggering off to the BBC, then getting bored again, jumping back again for more money, then throwing childish hissy fit at David Liddiment.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...HIGHER, LOWER, THEN MUCH LOWER
PLAYBOARD
(EARLY 1980s)
PLAYBOARD PRODUCTIONS
THE PLAYBOARD Puppet Theatre did many things (most famously BUTTON MOON), but started off on Sunday morning BBC1 with this effort. PLAYBOARD featured a mole and a hedgehog (Mo and Hedge respectively), and, the horror, CHRISTOPHER LILLICRAP. The story involved the pair trudging through miles of fake turf (puppeteers operated them from gulleys below) to get to a circus/funfair tent, watch an act, then piss off home. Lillicrap being Lillicrap, a song was worked unsubtly into the show.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...AND THEY ALL WENT TO SLEEP AT THE END, CURLING UP WITH MUCH SHOVING EACH OTHER OUT THE WAY WITH THEIR ARSES BEFORE SNORING BROKE OUT
MINI-TELEPLAYS FOR kids of varying topics and quality, originally a JACKANORY spinoff. Animated change-over-swappy-book titles, with witch giving jester the legs of a frog, besides stuff about the inventor of the radio "coming through on the wireless".
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...NO APPLAUSE
COMPREHENSIVE PRANKERY starring a mob of tousled twenty- (in some cases thirty-) somethings squeezing behind desks pretending to be rowdy teens and giving the run around to dapper but dithering JOHN ALDERTON. Fenn Street Secondary Modern was the location, seemingly built just behind the world's largest power station. Antique establishment populated by dusty relics JOAN SANDERSON, DERYCK "WHERE'S ME WASHBOARD?" GUYLER and NOEL HOWLETT, all of whom regularly professed to being completely bemused by "young people today". Close to 568,399,035 episodes made. Stop-start bell-ringy theme in the top ten sitcom openers of all time.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...SPAN OFF INTO THE FENN ST. GANG, WHICH WAS BASICALLY THE SAME, SANS ALDERTON
PLUM'S PLOTS AND PLANS
(1977)
BBC
SHORTLIVED SLAPSTICK for ver kids tipping an unsubtle-sized hat to THE GOODIES, following the escapades of professional schemer Cornelius Plum (ARTHUR HOWARD), Major Huffin (AUBREY WOODS) and Dr. Pretzel (WILLIAM HOOTKINS).
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...PRE-NEWSROUND PALAVER
POB'S PROGRAMME
(1985-87)
RAGDOLL/CHANNEL 4
SALIVA-SATURATED SILLINESS from Mrs Roland Rat, aka ANNE WOOD. Eponymous goblin-esque creature with over-sized ears and a pink and yellow striped jumper too big for him would purport to "get inside" your TV once a week to "interrupt" normal transmissions as and when he pleased. Our host would then introduce the likes of Rod Campbell demonstrating various complex ways to open a surprise box, which was then always repeated ("Again?"); Czechoslovakian animations such as MAXI-DOG; and Dick King-Smith endlessly meandering around the countryside accompanied by his dog Dodo. Special guests then arrived in Pob's "garden" via a long piece of string along which were attached various clues. Said visitors turned out to be of surprisingly high calibre, including SPIKE MILLIGAN, BRIAN BLESSED, CHARLIE WILLIAMS and POLLY JAMES. Most memorable of all, though, was Pob's distinctive means of introduction: "breathing" onto your TV screen then rubbing a hole in the "condensation" - basically, glorified spitting.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."OY! FINGY! PPPPPPPPPHHHHRRRRT!"
THE POGLES/POGLE'S WOOD
(1966-67)
SMALLFILMS
DIRT-CHEAP PUPPETRY filmed in the dirt and on the cheap in OLIVER POSTGATE's back garden. Titchy fairy-type people who lived in a tree stump had titchy adventures. Head of the family was no-known-first-name Mr Pogle; doing the dishes was Mrs Pogle; running amok was son Pippin; gibbering in a faintly Japanese accent was pet squirrel Tog. Collective efforts mostly directed at supervising the wellbeing of a nearby bean plant. Tree stump grew faster than the storylines.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...ROOTSY
POINTS OF VIEW
(1961-71/1979-NOW)
BBC
"DEAR BBC, I am quite frankly staggered. Yours, quite frankly staggered." Endless have-your-say soapbox shoutathon keeping voiceover artistes in work for over four decades and helping fill awkward 10-minute schedule slots historically just before the 9pm news. First in the chrome chair was ROBERT "WOULD THAT IT WERE" ROBINSON, establishing a precedent for ubiquitous surname supremacy later supported by KENNETH ROBINSON, ANNE ROBINSON and, erm, TONY ROBINSON. Early years majored in senior common room-style mutterings thanks to Robert's penchant for pedantry and obscure literary gags. After long hiatus in the 70s, however, the show evolved into the more mass market, mass hysteria beast it remains. BARRY TOOK takes the blame here, pushing jocularity and funny voices well to the fore, topped off with whimsical calliope adaptation of "When I'm 64" as theme tune (in turn prompting a letter every six months wondering "Why have you got 'When I'm 64' as your theme tune?") and having the correspondence unceremoniously torn into bite-size portions and glued to pieces of brown sugar paper, to be comically interrupted at will ("What's that, Mrs Chateris?" "Surely not!" "Anything else to add?!"). These were the imperial years, continued by Anne with her "them upstairs" routine and shifty winking-to-camera goodnights. Formula got diluted throughout the 90s thanks to ever-changing roster of boring guest hosts, until ultimately it got bumped to Sunday afternoons (bad) and taken over by SIR TERENCE OF WOGAN (good).
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."I HAVE NEVER PREVIOUSLY FELT MOVED TO WRITE TO THE BBC...UNTIL NOW"
DREARY CORNISH period yarn charting the dreary fortunes of the titular army captain watching over his dreary Cornish estate at the end of the 18th century. ROBIN ELLIS was your chief pasty. JILL TOWNSEND, RALPH BATES, CLIVE FRANCIS and ANGHARAD "GOT ME ON MORECAMBE AND WISE" REES kissed hands and grimaced politely from afar. Much trouble afoot in t'local tin mine/hostelry/smugglers' cove from, well, tin miners, hosteliers and smugglers. CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS played himself playing the camp local vicar.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...OLD KRAP, HO FUCKING HO
TYRE-SOME IMPORT (do you see?) drawn in that crappy style of the time whereby everyone had massive eyeballs, triangular mouths and "moved" by virtue of standing still while the background maniacally juddered out of focus. Laughably based on the popular Atari game effort. Two crimefighting siblings utilised their racing cars to, er, "fight crime". Tess and Dan adopted the titular responsibilities, while typical big-pupilled cute girl, Daisy, daughter of their "chief" (whoever he was) got kidnapped at least once an episode. Plus, in yet another mid-80s giveaway, there was a crappy animal comedy sidekick, in this case a monkey thing calle Kuma.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...NOT FORGETTING THAT OTHER MID-80S CURSE, THE SOFT ROCK THEME TUNE: "POLE POSITIOOOOOON...!"
DOUBLE-SURNAMED SHAW TAYLOR takes personal responsibility for eliminating crime from these shores by way of five-minute despatches from pretend office. Were YOU in Shaw's featured neighbourhood this week? Have YOU seen this man leaving your local Wilkinson's? Did YOU spot something suspicious happening by the Belisha Beacon next to Fine Fare on Arkwright Road just before half-day closing last Wednesday lunchtime?
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."KEEP 'EM PEELED"
BRINGING UP the rear in the FERGUS O'KELLY voice-over triumverate (behind MATHS TOPICS and EXPERIMENT!) came this this steady-but-sure dragonfly/tadpole/frogstravaganza on good old 16mm.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."A WATER BOATMAN! WRITE THAT DOWN! OH, HANG ON..."
POOR LITTLE RICH GIRLS
(1984)
GRANADA
IFFY SITCOM cooked up by stars MARIA "TONY" AITKEN and JILL "COLIN" BENNETT over lunch (fact). No audience present (to denote this was a classy affair), but no laughs either (to denote this was crap). Jill was Daisy Troop, Maria played Kate Codd; both were cousins who hadn't met for 15 years and were manhunting divorcees who each thought the other had the money but they didn't, so they went out to pull blokes who had. Miss Marple looked in from time to time, and a Comical Working Class Man lived in the garden.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."DIDN'T YOU HEAR? MY HUSBAND GOT TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY A GIRAFFE! TALK ABOUT STICKING YOUR NECK OUT!"
.JPG)
DUNUNUNUNUNUH-DUH NUH! "POP QUIZ!!!" A crisply bouffoned MIKE READ hunkered down behind a giant desk of a Saturday teatime to host this steady-as-she-goes bland panel game 'twixt two teams of mini-celebs of the day, e.g. Fish, bloke off Red Box, maybe Noddy Holder, perhaps a rogue member of Bananarama. Missing lyrics, video clips, backwards songs etc. Perfect for eating your tea to.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...1990S REVIVAL, LIKE MIKE'S SPIN-OFF BOARDGAME, HASTILY BINNED
POP THE QUESTION
(1984)
LWT/CHANNEL FOUR
SNAP! A futile attempt to replicate success of the above, masterminded by BEADLEBUM. Hosted by LEE PECK, later to show up on GAME FOR A LAUGH's doomed final series, it had - inevitably - CHRIS TARRANT and DAVID HAMILTON in the captain's chairs.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."NAME THE MEMBERS OF FUN BOY THREE!"
LOWER LEAGUE to the legendary RUNAROUND with the accent more on "the popular music of the day", thanks to GARY "EAR SAY" CROWLEY failing to fill MIKE REID's ample size tens by several acres. Instead of "G-g-g-g-go! Runaround NAAAH!" we had "Go on, go on, go on, go for it! Now's the time to change your mind - POPAROUND!" They really needn't have bothered.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...THEME TUNE TWANGED ALONG IN A SUB-COUNTRY MANNER: "QUITTERS, THEY DON'T WIN/AND WINNERS, THEY DON'T QUIT." EH?
OBSCURE CHARACTER study with BRIAN "WYATT'S WATCHDOGS" WILDE.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."FROM 'ERE?!"
PORTERHOUSE BLUE
(1987)
CHANNEL 4
MUCH-LAUDED ROMPERY amidst fictitious crumbling university college of Porterhouse, from pen of TOM SHARPE. Newly-appointed master Sir Godber Evans (IAN RICHARDSON), trapped under the thumb of flame-spitting feminist wife Mary (BARBARA JEFFORD), embarks on "controversial" plan for reform involving mass installation of condom machines in college bogs, sending veteran staff up in arms. 45 years-serving grumpy head porter Skullion (DAVID JASON) seeks help from mad wealthy landowner Sir Cathcart D'eath (CHARLES GRAY), who enlists ex-student and greasy TV producer Cornelius Carrington (GRIFF RHYS JONES) to produce whistle-blowing doco. Meanwhile randy undergrad Lionel Zipser (JOHN SESSIONS) gets pissed on twenty pints of ale, accidentally takes delivery of 50 boxes of Durex, which he disposes of by filling with gas and floating them out of his chimney, leading to seminal sequence of two thousand johnnies bobbing round neatly priveted college green, before giving one to long-term object of lust and middle-aged chunky cleaning lady Mrs. Biggs (PAULA JACOBS), at which point his room explodes. Evans then suffers fatal accident on pointy pictureframe, to be replaced by recently dismissed Skullion, who proceeds to suffer crippling stroke (titular "Blue"), and everyone ends up at cross-dressing leather-and-bondage rave at Sir D'eath's stately pile.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...TITLE MUSIC BY NOT-OBVIOUS-FIRST-CHOICE THE FLYING PICKETS
PORTLAND BILL
(EARLY 1980s)
ITV
"COME WITH me to the rolling sea/Where the weather's calm and still..." Shambling stop-motionery on a lighthouse and its secluded environs with, HERBS-style, all the characters named after shipping forecast areas. Hence the eponymous hero, plus Ross, Cromarty, Eddy Stone, Finisterre, Fastnet etc, each with their own song, a la POSTMAN PAT. Rising slowly, moderate or good.
TV CREAM immortality rating -
..."ACH, BE SENSIBLE, ROSS!"
WE'RE NOT interested in any latterday lousy remake or stupid real-life roustabout; only the original, and superior, vintage is what matters, and so, to the sound of Ken Barrie's vocal stylings, welcome to yet more stop-motion simperings from Olde England where one postman was responsible for sorting out an entire town's mail plus any other disasters that happened to befall its inhabitants before breakfast. Greendale was your location, peopled by people of the likes of demented old sub-postmistress Mrs Goggins, avuncular handyman Ted "leave it with me" Glen, Nimmo-ish Reverend Timms, saucy lady doctor Sylvia Gilbertson, posh toff Major Forbes, mobile shopkeeper Sam Waldron, farmers George Lancaster and Alf Thompson, another posh toff Miss Hubbard, Granny Dryden and PC Selby. Pat was also married, with wife Sarah and son Julian. Ensuing nationwide popularity and mall-to-mall merchandising must be laid at the blarney-decked door of SIR TERENCE OF WOGAN, after he "spinned" the theme tune on his show one morning. Altogether: "Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat ran over his cat; all the folk were crying, Jess just lay there dying, Pat knows he'll be banned from his own van..."
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...PAT 1
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