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FLIP
UK / BBC1 / 13x20m-e / 1991
25 Sep - 18 Dec Wed 4 20pm
Children's comedy series that
concerned the activities of FLIP {The Federation
of Lost International Property}, and
taking place in a different far flung lost property
office each time.
FLIPPER
USA / NBC-MGM-Ivan Tors /
88x30m-e / 1964-68
Creator/Executive Producer: Ivan
Tors / Music: Ruby Raskin, Frankie Randall
Action adventure series. Sandy
Ricks, son of Peter 'Po' Ricks of the Coral Key Marine Reserve befriends a super
intelligent dolphin called Flipper. Based on the 1963 film of the same name.
With:- BRIAN KELLY as Peter 'Po'
Ricks / LUKE HALPAN as Sandy Ricks / TOMMY NORDON as Bud Ricks / ANDY DEVINE as
Hap Gordon / SUSIE as Flipper
THE
FLOCKTON FLYER
UK / Southern / 14x25m-e / 1976 -77
Writer: Peter Whitbread / Music: Jugg Music
/ Producer/Director: Colin Nutley
Children's drama series. A family take over a run down
train station and try to set up a regular train
service, even though they face local hostility
and are short of funds.
With:- PETER DUNCAN as Jimmy / CAITRIN STRONG
as Jessica / GWYNETH STRONG as Jan / DAVID NEAL as Bob Carter
THE
FLOWERPOT MEN
UK / BBC / 120?x15m-e / 1952-54
black and White
Creators: Freda Lingstrom, Maria
Bird / Music: Maria Bird
Puppet series. Part of the Watch
With Mother featuring the adventures of Flowerpot inhabitants Bill and Ben and
their regular tangles with Little Weed. The pair had their own language which
basically consisted of the two of them speaking the phrase "Flobba-dobba-flobba-lob".
Voices:- PETER HAWKINS / GLADYS
WHITRED / JULIA WILLIAMS
THE
FLUMPS
BBC / 13x10m-e
Stop frame animated adventures.
Tales of a group of six strange furry people called Flumps, the family were:-
Grandfather Flump, Father Flump, Mother Flump, Perkin, Posie and baby of the
bunch Pootle.
FLYING
RHINO JUNIOR HIGH
Canada-France-UK / Scottish TV-Nelvana-Neurones-France S.A.R.L / x15m-e / 1998
Creators: Flying Rhinocerous Inc, Big Daddy Inc / Theme Music: Alex Khaskin,
George Axon, Ed Roth / Based on the Flying Rhino series of books.
Animated series with a slightly educational slant.
Voices:- RICHARD BINSLEY as Earl-Phantom / RON RUBIN as Raticus-Rod / ASHLEY
BROWN as Billy / TERRI HAWKES as Lydia / TRACY RYAN as Ruby / TRACEY MOORE as
Marcus
FOLLOW
THAT DOG
UK / Southern / 6x25m-e / 1974 13 Nov - 18 Dec
Wed 4 25pm
Writer: Michael Nelson /
Director: Peter Croft
Children's sitcom. A blundering cop is able to solve
his cases with the help of 'telepathic' dog.
With:- NORMAN ROSSINGTON as P C Fogg
/ PATSY ROWLANDS as Sgt Bryant / ANTHONY DAWES as Insp Bridges / NIGEL RHODES
as Peter / JANET FRENCH as Rosie
FOLLYFOOT
UK / YTV /
39x30m-e / 1971-73
Creator: Monica Dickens / Theme
Music: The Lightening Tree by The Settlers / Producer: Audrey Southcott /
Executive Producer: Tony Essex
Children's drama series. A group of teenagers help out at
Follyfoot Farm, a home for neglected horses
run by The Colonel.
With:- GILLIAN BLAKE as Dora / ROBIN STEWART
as Paul(71) / STEVE HODSON as Steve / DESMOND LLEWELLYN as The Colonel
/ ARTHUR ENGLISH as Slugger / CHRISTIAN RODSKA as Ron Striker / PAUL GUESS
as Lewis Hammond
FOOTBALL
CRAZY
UK / Thames 'Funny Ha Ha' / 1x30m-e
/ 1974 31 May - Fri 4 50pm
Writers: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey
/ Producer: Ruth Boswell / Director: Vic Hughes
Children's comedy. The manager of Wormwood Rovers is
sacked because of his players
incompetence.
With:- BOB TODD as Arnold Smedley
/ MADGE HINDLE as Daphne / LIZ GEBHARDT as Carol
FOREST
RANGERS
Syndicated / 104x30m-e /
1965-67
Music: John Bath /
Producer: William Davidson
Adventure series. The members of
the Junior Rangers Club of Indian River help Ranger Keeley as he tries to
keep the area crime and trouble free.
With:- GRAYDON GOULD as Ranger
Keeley / MICHAEL ZENON as Joe Two Rivers / GORDON PINSENT as Sgt Scott / ROLLAND
BEDAD as Uncle Raoul / RALPH ENDERSBY as Chub / SUSAN CONWAY as Kathy / BARBARA
PIERCE as Denise / DON MASON as Steve / GEORGE ALLEN as Ted / REX HAGON as Pete / PETER TULLY as Mike
/ BARBARA HAMILTON as Mrs Appleby / RONALD COHOON as Zeke / SYME JAGO as Gabi
THE
FORGOTTEN DOOR
UK / ITV Network (ABC Weekend
Television) / 7x20m-e / 1966 Sundays. Broadcast: 9 October 1966 to
20 November 1966, inclusive. (6.15-6.35pm.)
Adapted by John Kershaw from the
book of the same name by American author and illustrator Alexander Key.
The Forgotten Door
was directed by Pamela Lonsdale, whom is also credited for Ace
of Wands and Chocky, among
others. Incidentally, Chocky – adapted from John Wyndham’s novel --
is also about an ‘alien’ who comes to Earth; a very different story but,
nevertheless, equally satisfying.
Main ‘storyteller’ for The
Forgotten Door was Betty McDowall -- who starred in the film Time
Lock about a boy trapped in a bank vault) and also the 1964 HG Wells' film, First
Men In The Moon. Other ‘voices’ in The Forgotten Door were
by Murray Kash, Ann Murray, Aaron Shirley and Roger Snowdon. Drawings were by
John Ryan, the man behind Captain
Pugwash, while Colin Andrews did the set design.
Being shown at 6.15pm. on Sunday
evenings, this often seemed to be the slot for a tea-time story, fantasy or
adventure, maybe with a religious theme. In fact, there was a religious adviser
to the series in Ian McKenzie. (This was obviously years before all-day or
24-hour viewing and, to put it into time context, well over two years before the
Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. ) A check on programme schedules the following
year, for example, showed that fantasy still fitted the bill for this slot –
The black and white version of The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was screened. -- MacAnakin
FOR
THE CHILDREN
UK / BBC / 1937-39 1946-50 black
and white
Early version of Watch With
Mother hosted by Annette Mills and featuring the delights of dancing puppet
Muffin the Mule. In the thirties the shows were presented on Saturday afternoons
by Mary Adams. The very first episode was broadcast 24 April 1937. In the
forties the programmes went out on Sunday afternoons.
FOUR
FEATHER FALLS
UK / AP-Granada / 39x15m-e / 1960
black and white
Creator/ Producer: Gerry Anderson
/ Special Effects: Reg Hill
Puppet series. Adventures of Tex
Tucker, sheriff of wild west town Four Feather Falls, with four magic feathers
giving his horse and dog the ability to talk.
Voices:_ NICHOLAS PARSONS as Tex
Tucker / KENNETH CONNOR as Rocky-Dusty-Pedro / DAVID GRAHAM as Granpa Twink-Fernando
/ DENISE BRYER as Ma Jone-Little Jake
THE
FOXBUSTERS
UK / Cosgrove Hall-ITV / 13x10m-e
/ 1999
Devisors: Dave Freedman, Alan
Gibney / Book: Dick King-Smith / Executive Producer: Brian Cosgrove /
Producer/Director: Jon Doyle
Animated adventure series. A trio
of chickens try to keep foxes away from their farm.
Voices:- WHOOPI GOLDBERG as
Ransome / JOANNA LUMLEY as Sims / JANE HORROCKS as Jeffries
FRAGGLE
ROCK
UK / ITV-Jim Henson Prod. /
85x30m-e / 1983-87
Creator: Jim Henson
Muppet style entertainment. A
lighthouse keeper lives on the Fraggle Rock of the title with his dog and
assorted Muppet characters who included Boober, Gobo, Red and Wembley. The
lighthouse keeper was played initially by Fulton Mackay and later John Gordon
Sinclair. There was, briefly, an animated version which ran from 1987-88.
FRANCIS
STORM INVESTIGATES
UK / ITV Network (ATV) / 5x30m-e
/ 1960 (broadcast: 8 March - 5 April) black and white
Creator: Peter Elliott Hayes /
Director: Grahame Turner
Crime drama series about the
exploits of private detective Francis Storm.
With:- BRIAN WORTH as Francis
Storm / WILLIAM SIMONS as Robin / ROBIN WENTWORTH as Sgt Pilcher
FRANKENSTEIN
JR
USA / CBS-Hanna Barbera / x15m-e
/ 1966-68
Executive Producers: William
Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Animated fantasy series. Young
scientist Buzz Conroy creates a fifty foot tall robot Frankenstein to fight
crime.
Voices:- TED CASSIDY as
Frankenstein / DICK BEALS as Buzz Conroy
FREEDOM FORCE
CBS-Filmation / x20m-e /
1978
Combining two of Filmation
created characters, Isis and Hercules, with two classic characters from
literature, Merlin and Sinbad, and a new character, Super Samurai, the
Freedom Force was one of the segments of the Tarzan and the Super 7 show
(and was included in the Batman and the Super 7 show a few years later).
Led by Isis, the Freedom Force operated out of a pyramid in the Valley of
Time. By bringing their combined powers and skills together, the group did
battle with both evil and misunderstood beings and creatures.
Voices:- Michael Bell as
Merlin, Sinbad, and Super Samurai/ Diane Pershing as Isis/ Bob Denison as
Hercules
FREEWHEELERS
UK / Southern / 104x25m-e / 1967-73
Producer: Chris McMaster
Children's adventure series. A group of teenagers get involved
in stopping various international criminals (as you do!).
With:- GREGORY PHILLIPS(67) / CHRIS CHITTELL(67-69)
/ TOM OWEN / CAROLE MOWLAM(69-73) / RONALD LEIGH-HUNT / VALENTINE DYALL(70) / MICHAEL RIPPER(70-73)
/ WENDY PADBURY as Sue (1971-73)
THE
FRIENDLY GIANT
Canada / CBC / x30m-e / 1959-66
(30 September 58 - 27 May 66)
Creator: Bob Homme / Producers:
Michael Spivak, Dan McCarthy, Doug David, Ed Mercel
Entertainment in which the
Friendly Giant of the title and his friends Rusty and Jerome told stories and
played music.
With:- BOB HOMME as the Friendly
Giant / ROD CONEYBEARE as the voice of Rusty and Jerome
FROM
MICKEY TO INFINITY - AND BEYOND
UK / ITV-Walt Disney-Beuna Vista
/ 1x55m-e / 1999 24 December Friday 1.55pm
Writer/Producer/Director: John
Bartlett
Documentary. A look at the
history of animation taking in the beginnings of Mickey Mouse upto the latest
computer animation techniques as seen in Toy Story 2. Presented by Neil
Buchanan.
FRIGHTENERS
UK / ITV / 4x25m-e / 1997
A short anthology series of
children's dramas with the emphasis on the
supernatural.
FROM
THE TOP
UK /
Central / 12x30m-e / 1985-86 Mon 4.
45pm
Writers: Bill Oddie, Laura Beaumont
/ Executive Producer: Lewis Rudd / Producers: Michael Dolenz(Season 1), Paul Harrison & Peter
Murphy(Season 2)
Children's sitcom. A middle aged bank manager chucks
up his job to join a stage school.
With:- BILL ODDIE
as William Worthington / MOYRA FRASER as Annie Jolly / MAGGIE RENNIE
as Dolly Jolly / GAVIN FORWARD
as Leslie Finsberg / CATHERINE HOLMAN as Janis Koplowitz / MICHAEL QUILL
as Wayne Layne / JOIESE WALLER
as Polly Jolly / STAN HOLT as Mr Spadley
THE
FRUITTIES
Spain / D'Ocon Films / x15m-e /
1997
Creator/Producer: Antoni D'Ocon /
Music: Josep Roig
Animated adventure. Fun and games
with a group of Fruit based creatures living in a volcano.
FUDGE
USA / ABC-Amblin-MCA / 1x90m-e
24x30m-e / 1995 (7 January - 16 Feb)
Creator: Judy Blume / Executive
Producers: Carol Monroe, Steven Spielberg
Sitcom. Nine year old Peter
Hatcher tries to keep his younger brother 'Fudge' out of trouble. The 90 minute
episode is a TV Movie called Fudge-A-Mania that immediately preceded the series.
With:- LUKE TARSITANO as Farley
Drexel 'Fudge' Hatcher / JAKE RICHARDSON as Peter Hatcher / EVE PLUMB as An
Hatcher (Mom) / FORREST WITT as Warren Hatcher (Dad) / NASSIRA NICOLA as Sheila
/ ALEX BURRALL as Jimmy / ROB MONROE as Henry
FULLY
BOOKED
UK / BBC2 / 1990's
Sunday Morning children's
magazine show that clocked up over a hundred episodes. Presenters included a pre
Live and Kicking Zoe Ball, Gail Porter, Tim Vincent, Chris Jarvis and Kate
Heavenor. See also the follow up show FBi (Fully
Booked Interactive).
FUN
FACTORY
UK / ITV / 1980's
Saturday morning entertainment,
shown by ITV following the demise of TISWAS. Fronted by Billy Butler. Other
presenters included Wilf Lunn, Gary Crowley and Martyn Day. Also on
hand was Jeremy Beadle.
FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN
BBC1 / 3x50m / started 28 November 2004
Book: Raymond Briggs / Adaptation: Mark Haddon / Director: Stuart Orme / Producer: Ian Whitehead
Based on a children's story by Raymond Briggs. The Bogeymen are a community of green human-size creatures who live underground in their own villages and are unknown to the humans who live up top. The Bogeymen delight in being dirty and their job is to go into humans' homes at night and mess things around and play tricks. The basic story is of a young bogeyman called Mould being seen by a human girl Jessica who follows him underground and finds out about their community. Made with mixture of live actors (humans) and computer animation (for the Bogeymen and their village).
With:- MARTIN CLUNES as George White / FAY RIPLEY as Jane White / CLARE THOMAS as Jessica / TOM GOODMAN-HILL as Tony / / CHARLIE HICKS as Tom White
Voices:- MAK WILSON as Fungus / JORDAN METCALF as Mould / FIONA HOGAN as Mildew / ALICE CONNOR as Mucus
FUNHOUSE
UK / ITV / x25m-e / 1990's
Entertainment. Two teams of two
kids compete in a series of challenges inside the Funhouse to win through to the
prizetastic end game. Presented by Pat Sharp with the twins Martina and Melanie
Grant. Also with the voice of Gary King. The concept of"Fun House" was
first seen in The USA as a syndicated kids tv game show in the 1980's. The
show was produced in Hollywood,Ca. and was hosted by former kid actor and
one of the youngsters who had Mc'd the very last version of "Wonderama!":
J.D.Roth.
The show had two kids(A boy and a girl) working with well known kid
performers and/or personalities in performing stunts and answering
questions in the least amount of time. For the chance of earning points,
winning prizes and gaining the opportunity of running thru "The Fun
House!". The show was seen in NYC on station(WPIX TV Ch.11) weekday
afternoons in the late 1980's before the series moved to The Fox TV
Network where it was seen Weekday afternoons under it's new
title:"The Fox Fun House" for two more seasons before the series
was cancelled. Roth would go onto host and/or create and produce other tv
game shows for kids:"Masters Of The
Maze","Zooventures","Off The Wall"(Mr.Roth
produced but he did not Mc:"Off The Wall!"and"Moolah
Beach". - Many thanks to Kevin S. Butler for extra information on
this entry.
THE
FUNKY PHANTOM
USA / ABC-Hanna Barbera /
17x20m-e / 1971
Music: John Sangster
Spooky animated drama series.
Cases of three teens and a colonial ghost turned mystery solver. Very similar in
style to Scooby Doo.
Voices:- DAWS BUTLER / MICKY
DOLENZ / TOMMY COOK / TINA HOLLAND / JULIE BENNETT / CASEY KASEM
FUN
TIME
Canada / CBC / x30m-e / 1956-57 (
5 July 56 - 1 February 57/ Thursdays 5.30pm then Fridays 5.00pm)
Producer: Roger Racine
Variety. Captain Frank (and his
parrot Matey) have fun on his Fun Time Showboat. Other regulars included kids
Alan Jack and June Mack along with magician Tom Auburn.
FURTHER
TALES FROM THE RIVERBANK: See Tales From the Riverbank
FURY
USA / ITC / 114x30m-e / 1955-59
black and white
Action adventure series. A young
boy living on a ranch has adventures with his horse Fury. The series is also
known as Brave Stallion.
With:- BOBBY DIAMOND / PETER
GRAVES
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