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LINKSCHILDREN'S TV - GADGET BOY to GLAD RAGS
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MR AXELFORD'S ANGEL
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY 1955
MR AND MRS EDGEHILL
MRS CAPPERS BIRTHDAY
G - GADGET BOY to GLAD RAGS
GADGET BOY
USA-France / DIC-MG / x20m-e / 1996
Idea: Andy Heyward / Devisor: Phil Harriage / Music: Jean-Michel Guirao / Theme Performed by Mike Piccirillo / Producers/Directors: Pascal Morrelli, Charlie Sansonetti
Fantasy comedy crime drama. Cases of a junior Inspector Gadget, especially his battles with the evil Spydra.
Voices:- DON ADAMS as Gadget Boy / MAURICE LARMARCHE / TARA CHARENDOFF / STEPHANIE LOUISE VALLANCE / IAN JAMES CORLETT
GALLOPING GALAXIES
UK / BBC1 / 1x25m-e / 1985-86 Season 1:1 - 29 Oct 1985 Season 2:20 Nov - 18 Dec 1986
Writer: Bob Block / Music: Jonathan Cohen / Producer: Jeremy Swan
Children's scifi comedy series. In the 25th Century, Voyager, an interplanetary merchant ship plies his trade across the vastness of space.
With:- KENNETH WILLIAMS as Voice of Sid & Junior / ROBERT SWALES as Morton / PAUL WILCE as Webster / PRISCILLA MORGAN as Mabel Appleby / JOSIE KIDD as Elsie Appleby / SEAN CAFFREY as Space Pirate Chief Murphy / MATTHEW SIM as Robot 20 / JULIE DAWN COLE as Robot 35 / JAMES BREE as Dinwiddy Snurdle
GARGOYLES
USA / Walt Disney / 65x25m-e / 1994-95
Creator: Greg Weisman
Animated fantasy adventure. A thousand years after being caught in a magic spell (in the year 994) that sends them to sleep until their 'rises above the clouds' six Gargoyles are re-awakened when their castle is transferred to a Manhattan skyscraper where they come into conflict with evil Gargoyle Demona. A spin off appeared called Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles.
Voices:- KEITH DAVID as Goliath / SALLI RICHARDSON as Elisa Maza / JONATHAN FRAKES as David Xanatos / MARINA SIRTIS as Demona / JEFF BENNETT as Brooklyn / EDWARD ASNER as Hudson / BRIGITTE BAKO as Angela / BILL FAGERBAKKE as Broadway / THOM ALCOX-HERNANDEZ as Lexington / FRANK WELKER as Bronx / JEFF BENNETT as Owen Burnett / LAURA SAN GIACOMO as Fox
THE GEMINI FACTOR
UK / Thames / 6x30m-e / 1987
Writer: Paula Milne / Producer: Sheila Kinany / Executive Producer: Alan Horrox / Director: Renny Rye
Drama serial. When teenage Leah's parents agree to foster the wayward and difficult Lee the pair become involved in a mystery involving an old tower, drawn together by visions the pair seem to be sharing.
With:- LOUISA HAIGH as Leah / CHARLIE CREED MILES as Lee
THE GENE MACHINE
UK / Yorkshire TV / 7x30m-e / 1977
Educational series showing the process of evolution. Presented by David Bellamy.
THE GENIE FROM DOWN UNDER
UK-Australia / BBC-ABC-Australian Children's TV Foundation / 26x25m-e / 1995 and 1998
Executive Producers: Anna Home, Patricia Edgar / Music: Frank Strangio / Script Consultant: Esben Storm / Producers: Peter Jackson, Phil Jones, Jeremy Swan, Elizabeth Symes, Patricia Edgar
Fantasy sitcom. When English Penelope Townes discovers a magic opal she discovers it holds two Australian Genies within it - Bruce and his son Baz.
With:- ALEXANDRA MILMAN as Penelope Townes / RHYS MULDOON as Bruce / GLENN MELDRUM as Baz / IAN McFADYEN as Bubbles / ANNA GALVIN as Lady Diana Townes / FLETCHER HUYMPHREYS as Conrad von Meister / JACINTA STAPLETON as Sophie / EMILY MILBURN as Marcia / MARK MITCHELL as Otto von Meister / MONICA MAUGHAN as Miss Mossop
GENTLE BEN
USA / CBS-Ivan Tors / 56x25m-e / 1967-69
Producers: Ivan Tors, Andy White, George Sherman
Drama series. Young Mark Wedloe, son of Game Warden Tom Wedloe, befriends a young grizzly bear.
With:- DENNIS WEAVER as Tom Wedloe / CLINT HOWARD as Mark Wedloe / VERA MILES as Elen Wedloe / BETH BRICKELL as Elen Wedloe
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE
USA / ABC-Jay Ward / 51x10m-e / 1967-68
Animated comedy series. The misadventures of an inept Tarzan like figure.
THE GEORGIAN HOUSE
UK / HTV / 7x25m-e / 1976 2 January - 13 February
Writers: Jill Laurimore, Harry Moore / Producer: Leonard White / Executive Producer: Parick Dromgoole
Children's fantasy drama serial. A pair of students working at a stately home are transported back in time to the year 1772 where they help a young slave boy, called Ngo, to get back to his proper home.
With:- SPENCER BANKS as Dan / ADRIENNE BYRNE as Abbie / BRINSLEY FORDE as Ngo / JACK WATSON as Ellis / CONSTANCE CHAPMAN as Mistress Anne / MICHAEL GOVER as Sir Jeremy / JANINE DUVITSKI as Ariadne
GET FRESH
UK / ITV / 1980's
Theme Music: Mick Jones (of the Clash)
Another ITV Saturday morning show of the late 1980's, each week the crew visited a different UK town and the set was a giant UFO. Presented by Gaz Top (aka Gareth Jones), Charlotte Hindle and puppet Gilbert the alien.
GET IT TOGETHER
UK / Granada / x25m-e / 1960's
Producer: Muriel Young
Teen music show hosted by Roy North, Meg Nicoll and the puppet Ollie Beak.
GET IT TOGETHER
USA / ABC-Dick Clark Productions / 1970
A teen music show hosted by Sam Riddle and Cass Elliot (of the Mama's and Papa's), this was basically an opportunity for bands of the day (some good ones too Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Carpenters and the Rightous Brothers to name but three of the many who appeared) to plug their latest records in front of an audience of cheering kids. From the same stable as American Bandstand.
GET WET
UK / ITV / 13x30m-e / 1998
Game show utilising a variety of water based games. Presented by Simon Courtie and Elaine Hill.
GET YOUR OWN BACK
UK / BBC1 / x20m-e / 1996-continuing
Creator: Brian Marshall / Music: Steve Brown, Richard Webb / Executive Producer: Christopher Pilkington / Producer: Sue Morgan
Game show. Children compete in rounds against adults (usually a teacher or a family member) in an attempt to get the grown ups dumped in the gunge. Presented bv Dave Benson Phillips.
G FORCE
UK / BBC1(Scotland) / 30x25m-e / 1999-2001
Creator: Pual Brophy / Music: Helene Muddiman / Executive Producer: Claire Mundell
Children's drama series. Exploits of the G Force team, members of the Young Person's Job Agency. the show began life as a short segment in the 1998 series of Sunday Morning kids show Fully Booked.
With:- JUDE WILLIAMS as Gill / JOHN WARK as Fitzy / HANNAH NICOL as Lisa / CARMEN PIERACCINI as Nina / JAMES WEIR as Sean / PAUL BROPHY as Mr Bullivant (season one)
THE GHOST HUNTER
UK / BBC1-Zenith North / 18x25m-e / 1999-2002 Tuesdays/Thursdays 5.10pm
Writers: Ivan Jones, Roy Apps / Novel: Ivan Jones / Music: David Chilton, Nick Russell-Pavier / Costume: Val Metheringham / Design: Pilar Foy / Camera: Mike Thomson / Producer/Director: David Bell
Spooky drama serial. When Roddy
Oliver befriends a ghost from the past he ends up tangling with the evil ghost
hunter. Season 3 involved time travel with the action switching between
Victorian England, the present and the future where Roddy is an adult and
his two children this time team up with the Shoe-Shine Boy to stop the
Ghost Hunter’s latest scheme.
With:-JEAN MARSH as Mrs
Croker the Ghost Hunter / RICHARD HANSON as De Sniff / WILLIAM THEAKSTON
as Roddy Oliver (to S2) / LEE GODWIN as William Povey the Shoe-Shine Boy /
VERITY-JANE DEARSLEY as Tessa Oliver (to S2) / TRACY BRABIN as Mrs Oliver
(to S2) / JOHN McANDREW as Mr Oliver (to S2) / TERRY CROW as Wally Crabbe
/ ANDREW HAVILL as Professor Darcy (S3) / EDDIE BROWN as Leo (S3) / KELLY
SALMON as Bex (S3)
THE GHOSTS OF FAFFNER HALL
USA / 13x30m-e / 1989
Muppet entertainment. A bunch of muppets at the Faffner Hall music conservatory are haunted by the ghost of Fughetta Faffner who had been responsible for the founding of the Hall.
THE GHOSTS OF MOTLEY HALL
UK / Granada / 20x30m-e / 1976-78 3 Seasons + 1 Special
Writer: Richard Carpenter / Music: Wilfred Joseph / Producer/Director: Quentin Lawrence
Children's fantasy comedy drama series. A group of ghosts who have spent 400 years haunting the stately home Motley Hall do their best to scare off anyone who wants to buy the place. The only ghostly character able venture outside the house is the stable boy.
With:- ARTHUR ENGLISH as Bodkin / FREDDIE JONES as Sir George Uproar / SHEILA STAEFAL as The Woman In White / SEAN FLANAGAN as Matt the Stableboy / NICHOLAS LE PREVOST as Fanny the Footman / PETER SALLIS as Mr Gudgin
THE GHOST TRAIN
UK / ITV / x120m-e / 1991-94
Saturday morning entertainment. ITV's follow up to Get Fresh this early 1990's show was set in a Fairground and was presented by Jenny Powell with assistance from puppet Nobby the Sheep.
THE GIANT'S TOOTH AND OTHER STORIES
Australia / ABC / 8x15m-e / 1999
Children's short stories based on well known Australian stories.
GIGANTOR
Japan / 37x25m-e / 1966
Animated scifi. In the year 2000 12 year old Jimmy Sparks and 'The Worlds Mightiest Robot' help secret agent Dick Strong fight evil.
GIGGLY BITZ
ITV / 20x20m-e / 1999-continuing
Fast moving comedy sketch show with Nicole Arkless, Anthony MacMurray, Louise Scodie and Andres Williams.
THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE
UK / C4-CFU / 1x50m-e / 1996
Music: Dave Hewson / Producer: Brian Perkins / Director: Colin Finbow
Children's drama. A pair of kids make a shocking discovery when they go to visit their grandfather.
With:- DANIELLE HAWLEY as Kylie / DANNY BARNHAM as Jack / IAN JOHNSTONE as Sam / PATSY BYRNE as Mrs Nesbit / GORDON GRIFFIN as Vicar
THE GIRL FROM TOMORROW
Australia / Australian Film Foundation-Film Australia Prod / 24x25m-e / 1990-92
Writers: Mark Shirriefs, John Thomson / Music: Nicholas McCallum / Producer: Noel Price / Executive Producer: Ron Saunders
Two scifi drama serials. A girl from the 26th century finds herself in the 20th century where she is helped by a young girl called Jenny. In the second 12 part serial the girl from Tomorrow travelled back to her own time taking Jenny with her.
With:- KATHARINE CULLEN as Alana / MELISSA MARSHALL as Jenny / JOHN HOWARD as Silverthorn / JAMES FINDLAY as Petey / HELEN O'CONNOR / ANDREW CLARKE as James / MILES BUCHANAN as Eddie / HELEN JONES as Tulisa / PAULINE CHAN as Arva / MONROE REIMERS as Bruno / CATHERINE McCLEMENTS as Lorien (serial 2) / ANDREW WINDSOR as Macro (serial 2)
GIRLS IN LOVE
UK / BBC1 / 2003
Novels: Jacqueline Wilson / Dramatist: Carol Noble
Teen drama about 14-year old Ellie and her two best friends in their quest to get boyfriends.
With:- OLIVIA HALLINAN as Ellie / ZARAAH ABRAHAMS as Magda / AMY KWOLEK as Nadine / IAN DUNN as Ellie's Dad
GLAD RAGS
Australia-UK / 9 Network-BBC-Nomad-Southern / 13x25m-e / 1995
Writer: Trevor Todd / Executive Producers: Kris Noble, Douglas Stanley / Producers: Kate Faulkner, Douglas Stanley / Director: Robert Stewart
Sitcom. Lizzie Forbes, living above the fancy dress hire shop, Glad Rags, run by her mother, often gets involved in adventure; Usually with her two friends Gino and Brendan whose parents also ran shops either side of Glad Rags.
With:- BROOKE 'MIKEY' ADAMS as Lizzie Forbes / SARAH CHADWICK as Patricia 'Trish' Forbes / JOHN MUNACKEN as Gino Ambino / LUCIANO MARTUCCI as Gilbert Ambino / BRETT FERRIS as Brendan Punch / CARMEL JOHNSON as Fiorella Punch / JEROME EHLERS as Grame M. Marsden
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