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HALF MOON INVESTIGATIONS
HALFWAY ACROSS THE GALAXY AND TURN LEFT
Australia / 7 Network-Crawford-Taurus Film / 28x25m-e / 1994 19 June - 18 December
Creator: Robin Klein / Executive Producer: Terry Ohlsson / Producer: Jan Marnell
Scifi sitcom. After their father is unmasked as a fraudster, an alien family are forced to flee from their planet Zyrgon. They land on Earth and try to assimilate themselves into society. A twist was added in that in the aliens way of life the youngsters were in charge.
With:- LAUREN HEWETT as X (Charlotte) / JEFFREY WALKER as Qwrk (George) / SILVIA SEIDEL as Body of Doris (Astrella) / AMANDA DOUGE as Voice of Doris / BRUCE MYLES as Mortimer / JAN FRIEDL as Renee / COLLEEN HEWETT as Mrs Roland / KELLIE SMYTHE as Jenny Roland / CHE BROADBVENT as Colin Roland / BRANDON McLEAN as Andrew Roland / MICHAEL WALSH as Shane Roland / RICHARD NEAL as Mr Roland / TENLEY GILLMORE as Michelle Froggat / KATRINA LAMBERT as Dallas Hohenhaus / CELESTE LAMENTA as Sally / SUSAN ELLIS as Lynne
THE HALLOWEEN THAT ALMOST WASN'T
USA / ABC-Concepts Unlimited / 1x30m-e / 1979
Director: Bruce Bilson
Animated horror special. A group of monsters try to convince the Witch to fly over the moon in order to ensure that Halloween goes ahead.
Voices:- HENRY GIBSON as The Witch / JUDD HIRSCH as Count Dracula-Frankenstein's Monster / JACK RILEY as Wolfman / ROBERT FITCH as the Mummy / HENRY GIBSON as Igor
THE HANDY GANG
UK / A-R / 13x25m-e / 1963 3 May - 26 July Fridays 5 00pm black and white
Creators: Johnny Hutch, Norman Murray / Directors: Harry Sloan, J Murray Ashford, Pat Baker,
Children's sitcom. Exploits of two hapless handymen working at a block of flats called Neverbin Court.
With:- JOHNNY HUTCH as Johnny / DAVE JACKLEY as Dave / BOB BRYAN as Tiny / FREDDIE FOSS as
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
UK / BBC / 3x60m-e 3x30m-e / 1954 10 July - 18 September Saturdays 5.00pm - Shown Fortnightly black and white
Writer: Peter Ling / Producer: Michael Westmore / Director: Robert Tronson
Children's sitcom. Episodes in the life of Mr and Mrs Mulberry.
With:- HATTIE JACQUES as Mrs Mulberry / JOHN LE MESURIER as Mr Mulberry / CLIVE DUNNMr Grimble
HARD SPELL
UK / BBC1 / 5x30m, 1x60m(final) / started 29 November 2004
Producers: Karen Smith, Eileen Herlihy
Children aged between 11-14 must correctly spell a series of words put to them. 5 heats took place featuring contestants who had won their own regional non-televised contests and the winners of those heats competed in the grand final. Presented by Eamonn Holmes.
THE HARDY BOYS
USA / TCF-Filmation / 17x25m-e / 1969
Animated mystery series. Teenage brothers the Hardy boys use their rock group as cover for their mystery solving activities.
THE HARDY BOYS/ NANCY DREW MYSTERIES
USA / Universal / 58x60m-e / 1977-78
Creator/Producer: Glen A. Larson
Teen crime drama series. Cases of the teenage detectives of the title, the leads initially alternated each week but the Hardy boys soon become the more popular of the two and only ten Nancy Drew mysteries were made.
With:- PAMELA SUE MARTIN as Nancy Drew / SHAUN CASSIDY / PARKER STEVENSON
HARRY AND COSH
UK / Channel Five-Two Hats / 10x30m-e / 1999-2000 30 October 1999 - 1 Jan 2000 Sat 10.30am
Creator/Director: Daniel Peacock / Music: Adam Fox / Producer: Georgia Dussaud
Teen sitcom. The problems of growing up for London teenagers Harry and Cash. The series made heavy use of fantasy sequences (much like Peacock's other work for Channel Four).
With:- HARRY CAPEHORN as Harry / COSHTI DOWDEN as Cosh
HARRY AND THE WRINKLIES
UK / ITV / 4x25m-e / 2000 11 May - 1 June Thursdays 4.35pm
Writer: Michael Aitkens / Novel: Alan Temperley / Producer: John Price / Director: Andrew Morgan
Comedy adventure series. Harry goes to live with his two elderly aunts and begins an amazing series of adventures when he learns they are part of a gang of bank robbers committing crimes to help the less fortunate.
With:- NICHOLAS ROBINSON as Harry / MONA BRUCE as Bridget / ELSIE KELLY as Florrie / TONI PALMER as Dot / VICTOR SPINETTI as Max / GEORGE SEWELL as Huggy / GARETH HUNT as Percy Priestley
HARRY'S MAD
UK / Central/Carlton/Film & General / 36x25m-e / 1993-96 4 Seasons Mondays 4.15pm
Writers: Mark Billingham, David LLoyd / Book: Dick King-Smith
Children's sitcom. Harry Holdsworth inherits an amazing fantastical parrot called Madison from his Uncle.
With:- ANTHONY ASBURY as Madison Holdsworth(Voice) / JACKIE LYE as Mrs Holdsworth / MIKE WALLING as Mr Holdsworth / AMY BUTTERWORTH as Hattie (Seasons 3-4) / GARETH PARRINGTON as Harry Holdsworth / NADIA WILLIAMS as Jo (Seasons 1-2) / MARK BILLINGHAM as Terry Crumm
HATTYTOWN TALES
UK / Filmfair / x5m-e / Late 1960's
Writer: Keith Chatfield / Animation: Ivor Wood
Stop frame animated tales of the residents of Hatty Town who like the USA show Lidsville were all hats. Main characters included Sancho, Carrots, and Bobby. Narrated by Keith Chatfield.
THE HAUNTING OF CASSIE PALMER
UK / TVS / 6x25m-e / 1982
Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy / Novel: Vivien Alcock / Executive Producer: Anna Home / Director: Dorothea Brooking
Children's fantasy drama serial. Cassie, the seventh child of a seventh child finds herself harassed by ghosts and the sinister Deverill.
With:- HELEN PROBYN as Cassie / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Mrs Palmer / GEOFFREY ROSE as Deverill / STEPHEN BINT as Tom Palmer / RUTH ADCOCK as Mary Palmer
HAVAKAZOO
UK / Channel 5-Meridian-United-LookLively / x30m-e / 1998-continuing
Music: Jonathan Cohen / Executive Producer: Catherine Kirkwood
Pre-school entertainment show presented by Gabrielle Bradshaw and Jason Maverick.
HEARTBREAK HIGH
Australia / Ten Network(1994-96)-ABC(1997-99)-Roy Barron / 210x50m-e / 1994-99
Creators / Executive Producers: Ben Gannon, Michael Jenkins
Drama series. Episodes in the lives of the students at Inner City Hartley High. Grew out of a stage play and film called The Heartbreak Kid.
With:- ALEX DIMITRIADES as Nick Poulos / CHRISTINA MILANO as Sarah Lambert / SALVATORE COCO as Con Bordino / KATHERINE HALLIDAY as Rosette Malouf / EMMA ROCHE as Danielle Miller / COREY PAGE as Steve Wiley / DORIS YOUNAME as Yola Fatoush / SCOTT MAJOR as Peter Rivers / ABI TUCKER as Jodie Cooper / TAI NGUYEN as Jack Tran / ISABELLA GUTIERREZ as Chaka Cardenes / TONY MARTIN as Bill Southgate / JAN ADELE as Ruby / NICO LATHOURIS as George Poulos
HEATHCLIFF AND THE CATILLAC CATS
USA / Nickelodeon / x10m-e / 1984 - 87
The adventures of a tabby cat called Heathcliff who along with his friends (including Sonya, his girlfriend, Hector Skinny and Mungo) lived in a Junkyard
Voices: Mel Blanc as Heathcliff / Donna Christie as Cleo / Kyle Jenson as Wordsworth / Stan Jones as Riff Raff/Milkman / Danny Mann as Hector / Marilyn Lightstone as Sonja / Ted Ziegler as Mungo / Derek McGrath as Spike
HECTOR'S HOUSE
France / 50x5m-e / 1968
Creator: Georges Croses
Animated adventure series. Tales of a group of garden dwelling animals including the dog Hector of the title, Zaza the Cat and Mrs Kiki the Frog. The original French title was La Maison de Tu Tu.
HELPING HENRY
UK / C4/Chips Hardy / 13x15m-e / 1988 28 February - 19 May
Writers: Chips Hardy, John Henderson / Puppeteer: Roman Stefanski / Producer: Madeleine French / Director: Philip Casson
Scifi comedy series. An alien travels to Earth, disguised as a dining room chair, to make reports about life on the planet to his superiors. The series was aimed at pre-school kids.
With:- JEREMY HARDY as Voice of Henry / RICHARD VERNON as Cosmic 1 / MARTIN WIMBUSH as Cosmic 2 / IAN HARRIS as Stephen / MIRANDA BOORMAN as Tricia
HELP IT'S THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH
USA / CBS-Hanna Barbera / 16x20m-e / 1971
Animated sitcom. The adventures of a trio of extravagantly haired bears living in Wonderland Zoo.
Voices:- DAWS BUTLER as Hair Bear / PAUL WINCHELL as Bubi Bear / BILL CALLAWAY as Square Bear / JOE E. ROSS as Botch
HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
USA /
Syndicated-Filmation-Mattel
/ 65x25m-e / 1983
Producers: Lou Scheimer, Arthur
H. Nadel
Animated fantasy adventure series. To defend his castle and his people from the evil sSkelator, Prince Adam of Eternia transforms himself into the superhuman He-Man.
Voices:- JOHN ERWIN as He-Man / ALAN OPPENHEIMER as Skelator
HENRY'S CAT
UK / BBC1-Bob Godfrey Films Ltd / 60x10m-e / 1990
Writer: Stan Heyward / Producer: Bob Godfrey
Animated comedy series. The adventures of a somewhat 'Walter Mitty' like cat. Narrated by Bob Godfrey
HENRY'S LEG
UK / TVS / 6x20m-e / 1986
Writer: Ray Russell / Director: Michael Kerrigan
Adventure series. A young boy has a passion for collecting strange things.
With:- COURTNAY ROPER-KNIGHT as Henry / JANE HOOD
THE HERBS
UK / BBC1-Filmfair / 13x15m-e / 1968
Creator: Michael Bond / Music: Tony Russell, Brenda Johnson (lyrics) / Director: Ivor Wood
Stop frame animated series. Adventures of the animals living in the walled English country garden of Sir Basil and Lady Rosemary. The adventures would begin once the magic word "Herbidacious" was uttered. One of the characters, Parsley the Lion, went on to have his own series. Other characters were Dill the Dog, Sage the Owl, Bayleaf the Gardener, Constable Knapweed, Mr Onion, Aunt Mint , The Chives, Tarragon, Belladonna and Pashana Bedh. Narrated by Gordon Rollings, the episodes were 1 PARSLEY'S TAIL / 2 SAGE'S NEST BLOWS DOWN / 3 BELLADONNA THE WITCH / 4 TARRAGON AND THE EGGS / 5 THE CHIVES CATCH COLDS / 6 PAASHANA BEDHI, THE SNAKE CHARMER / 7 MISS JESSOP TIDIES UP / 8 PARSLEY AND THE CIRCUS LION / 9 SAGE'S SINGING LESSONS / 10 SIR BASIL'S FISHING EXPEDITION / 11 STRAWBERRY PICKING / 12 THE SNOW / 13 THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
THE HERCULOIDS
USA/ CBS-Hanna-Barbera / 26x25m-e / 1967
Animated fantasy. Animated fantasy adventure series.
The distant planet Quasar was under the rule of King Zandor, his wife Tara, and son
Dorno. The trio, handsome
by human standards (mom and dad dressed like Amazons, and Dorno sported a nifty blond page-boy haircut),
found themselves constantly defending their world from alien invaders in adventures that always required the
talents of a quintet of animals. There was Tundro, a 10-legged, winged rhinoceros ridden by
Dorno; Igoo, a King
Kong—like gorilla made of petrified rock; Zok, a flying mechanical dragon; and Gloop and
Gleep, two shapeless
ectoplasmic ghosts who mumbled a lot. They successfully fought for their home each week against such bizarre
attackers as the Faceless People, the Beaked People, and the Mutoids. Segments of the show appeared in repeats on The
Harlem Globetrotters in 1978. A new version, featuring the same voices except for Ted Eccles, was a segment on Space
Stars in 1981.
Voices:- Mike Road as
Zandor / Tundro / Igoo /Zok / Virginia Gregg as
Tara / Ted Eccles / Don Messick
UK/USA / TCF / 17x20m-e / 1971
Creators: Roy Simpson, Harry Booth / Music: Ivor Slaney, Melvyn Hayes / Producer: Roy Simpson
Comedy adventure series. A gang of kids use a disused London double decker in a junk yard as their base.
With:- PETER FIRTH as Scooper / GILLIAN BAILEY as Billie / MICHAEL AUDRESON as Brains / DOUGLAS SIMMONDS as Doughnut / BRINSLEY FORDE as Spring / BRUCE CLARK as Sticks / DEBBIE RUSS as Tiger / MELVYN HAYES as Albert
HERGE'S ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN
UK-France / BBC1-Tele Hachette / 50x5m-e / 1962-64
Producer: Peggy Miller / Comic strip: Herge (aka George Rani)
Animated adventure series. Young Belgian Tin Tin and his dog Snowy embark on a series of adventures with Captain Haddock. Also along for the ride were the strange bowler hatted Thompson Twins, Professor Calculus and General Alcazar. Narrated by Peter Hawkins
HERLOCK AND SHOLMES
UK / Associated-Rediffusion / 13x15m-e / 1958 11 July - 3 October Fridays 5 15pm
Director: Prudence Nesbitt
Children's sitcom. The misadventures of two inept detectives.
With:- JACK EDWARDES as Herlock / DICKIE ARNOLD as Sholmes
HERO TO ZERO
UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 2000 23 February - 29 March Wednesdays 4.35pm
Creator: John Salthouse / Music: Simon Whiteside / Costume: Linda Haysman / Executive Producer: Elaine Sperber
Fantasy drama series. 10 year old Charlie, with a troubled home life, seeks solace in talking to a poster of his favourite footballer Michael Owen, Charlie is amazed when the poster comes to life and Michael begins dispensing advice on how Charlie should live his life.
With:- HUW PROCTER as Charlie Brice / IAN BURFIELD as Jimmy Brice / MICHAEL OWEN as Himself / ANGELA SIMPSON as Rachel Brice / CLIFF PARISI as Vic Morrish
HERO TURTLES: THE NEXT MUTATION
USA / Saban International / x30m-e / 1997
Characters creators: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird / Music: Shuki Levy, Kussa Machi / Executive Producers: Haim Saban, Lance H. Robbins
Fantasy adventure. A spin off from the films featuring the live action adventures of the crime fighting, sewer dwelling Ninja Turtles.
With:- JARRED BLANCARD and CAURO CHARTRAND as Michael Angelo / MITCHELL LEE YEUN and DEAN CHOE as Raphael / RICHARD WEE and GEOFF WONG as Donatello / GABE KHOUTH and LARRY LAMB as Leonardo
HEY ARNOLD
USA / Nicktoon's / x20m-e/ 1990's-continuing
Creator: Craig Bartlett / Executive Producers: Craig Bartlett, Mary Harrington / Producer: Joseph Purdy
Animated sitcom. Young Arnold solves the problems his friends usually manage to create.
HICKORY HOUSE
Granada / x10m-e/ 1973
Preschool fun featuring characters like Humphrey Cushion and Dusty Mop. Presented by Alan Rothwell.
HIGH FLYERS
Australia / 10 Network-Southern Star / 52x30m-e / 1998-99
Creator: David Olgilvy / Executive Producer: Noel Price
Children's adventure series. Exploits of a group of kids involved in a circus.
With:- BARTHOLOMEW NASH as Trevor / ALIN ABELLA as Kyet Nguyen / KATY BRINSON as Sarah / DENISE BRISKIN as Tay / CHRISTOPHER BROWN as Steve / BRANDON BURNS as Bert / JADE BUTLER as Julianna 'Jules' Price / ZANE ELVIS DE COUVEY as Mitchell 'Mitch' Price / SERGE DE NARDO as Pablo / JANE HALL as Caz
HILLTOP HOSPITAL
UK / ITV / x10m-e / 1999
Books: Nicholas Allen
Stop frame animation. Animal doctors help treat their sick friends at Hilltop Hospital.
Voices:- JULIE HIGGINSON as Clare / CELIA IMRIE as Sally Surgeon / JONATHAN KYDD as Arthur / SALLY ANNE MARSH as Nurse Kitty / BRIAN MURPHY as Dr Atticus / PAUL SHANE as The Teds / KEVIN WHATELY as Dr Matthews
HISTERIA
USA / Warner / x20m-e / 1999
Animated comedy with an educational slant taking a sideways look at history and inventors.
Voices:- BILLY WEST / FRANK WELKER / TRESS MacNEILLE / LUKE RUEGGER
HOGG'S BACK
UK / Southern / 19x30m-e / 1975-76 2 Seasons
Writer: Michael Pertwee / Producer: Peter Croft
Sitcom. The calamities and misadventures of absent minded Dr Hogg, a GP in Belling-On-Sea.
With:- DEREK ROYLE as Dr Hogg / JACKI PIPER as Pearl (Season 1episodes 1-7) / WENDY RICHARD as Pearl (Season 1 episodes 8-13) / PAT COOMBS as Mrs Mac (Season 2) / ROBERT DORNING as General Balding / ERIC DODSON as Vicar / GORDON ROLLINGS as Mr Diehard
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE
UK / Thames / 7x30m-e / 1974 16 January - 27 February Wednesdays 4.20pm
Creator: Denise Coffey / Producer: Daphne Shadwell
Sitcom. Gloria Glamorsox, a journalist trys to uncover a scandal involving a Mr Big. The show was filmed against cartoon style animated backgrounds.
With:- DENISE COFFEY as Gloria Glamorsox / GERRY MARSDEN as Gerry / LOIS LANE as Miss Harriet Heedless / ANDREW ROBERTSON as Harry Brackett / PETER DENNIS as The Judge / ROY HUDD as R Hero/Ian Trepid
HOME FARM TWINS
UK / BBC1 / 26x15m-e / 1999-2000
Books: Jenny Oldfield / Music: Mark Thomas / Executive Producer: Richard Langridge / Producer: Ros Anderson
Drama series. Twin sisters Helen and Hannah move to a farm in the country and soon end up with a large collection of animals. The show is filmed on the same location as The Adventures of Black Beauty was in the early 1970's.
With:- SOPHIE DUNIAM as Helen / POLLY DUNIAM as Hannah / JACQUETTA MAY as Mum / MARTIN BALL as Dad / BEN EVANS as Sam / RAYMOND BOWERS as Fred
HOME TO RENT
France / Gaumont Multi Media-France 3 / x15m-e / 1997
Creators: Jean Yves Raimbaud, Philippe Traversat / Theme Music: Iggy Pop / Executive Producer: Marc du Pontavice
Animated scifi comedy series. A group of bizarre aliens crash their spaceship on Earth.
Voices:-CHARLES ADLER / JEFF BENNETT / MAURICE LE MARCHE / MICHAEL SICOLEY / DENNY MANN
USA / ABC-Hanna Barbera / 16x20m-e / 1974
Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Iwao Takamoto
Animated fantasy sitcom. Mild mannered janitor Penrod Pooch (who works in a police station) transforms himself (by getting changed in a filing cabinet) into kung fu crime fighting king Hong Kong Phooey whenever trouble appears on the horizon. Whilst changing onto Hong Kong Phooey, Penrod would leap into the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet, he would then get stuck until his sidekick Spot the Cat banged the cat, Phooey would then emerge from the top drawer of the cabinet.
Voices:- SCATMAN CROTHERS as Penrod 'Penry' Pooch / JOE. E. ROSS as Sgt Flint / KATHI GORI as Rosemary / DON MESSICK as Spot the cat
THE HOOBS
UK-USA / Jim Henson-Channel 4 / 250x15m-e / 2001 (First Episode: 15 January )
Weekday preschool muppet fun with the Hoobs who were Iver, Hula, Groove and Roma, the quartet had their own The Hoobmobile.
THE HOOLEY DOOLEYS
Australia / ABC / 13x12m-e / 1999-?
Producer: Jane Davidson / Music: The Hooley Dooleys / Producer/director: Colin Bromley
Children's pre-school entertainment featuring popular music act
Pre-school
fun with The Hooley Dooleys, a trio for whom songs, fun and games (often
with an educational slant) are never far away…. The
Hooley Dooley’s have never quite achieved that sort of Wiggles fever
that the pre-school fab four have managed, there is no massive range of
Hooley Dooley’s merchandise nor are their individual names on the tip of
every toddler tongue but their brand of educational songs and skits are
easily the equal of The Wiggles. Like The Wiggles The Hooley’s (David
Butts, Antoine Dearest and Bruce Thorburn) are also assisted by furry
friends, The HD’s have the strange Tickle the Doodat and Russell the
Kangeroo. There are 35 songs on this collection ranging from their theme
tune We Are The Hooley Dooleys (this is the one seen at the start of
almost all ABC Kids DVD’s and Videos) to Splashing in Puddles to
With:- David Butts, Antoine Dearest, Bruce Thorburn, Ngaire Kowalski, Shannon Faith
HOOVES OF FIRE
UK / BBC1 (Bristol)-Comic Relief / 1x30m-e / 1999 25 December - Saturday 2.30pm
Writers: Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Richard Curtis / Music: Mark Knopfler / Producer: Jaqueline White / Executive Producers: Kevin Cahill and Richard Curtis (comic relief), Helen Nabarro and Colin Rose (BBC) / Director: Richard Goleszowski
Stop frame animated fantasy comedy. Young Robbie the Reindeer is determined to win himself a place on Santa's sleigh team.
Voices:- JANE HORROCKS as Donner / ARDAL O' HANLON as Robbie / STEVE COOGAN as Blitzen / JEAN ALEXANDER as Mrs Santa / RICKY TOMLINSON as Santa / ROBBIE WILLIAMS as Narrator / PAUL WHITEHOUSE as Prancer / CAROLINE QUENTIN as Vixen / RHYS IFANS as Head Elf / HARRY ENFIELD as Old Jingle / ALISTAIR McGOWAN as Des Yeti and Alan Snowman / TONY ANSCOMBE as Elf 3
HOPE AND KEEN'S CRAZY HOUSE
UK / BBC1 / 13x30m-e / 1970-72 2 Seasons + 1 Special
Producer: Paul Ciani
Children's sitcom. Misadventures of two Scottish comedians. In season one the pair ran a hotel and in season 2 they embarked on a bus tour around Britain searching for lost treasure.
With:- MIKE HOPE as Mike / ALBIE KEEN as Albie / PETER GOODWRIGHT as Crumble / RUTH KETTLEWELL as Mrs Grapple / DAVID HATTON as The Shadow (Season 2)
HORSE IN THE HOUSE
UK / ITV Network - Thames / 12x30m-e / 1977 and 79
Novel: William Corbin / Music: Carl Davis / Producer: Ruth Boswell
Comedy drama series. When it looks like a pair of wealthy kids may have to sell their prize horse Orbit to an arab sheik they decide to substitute him for a lesser horse, they then had to keep the horse hidden from their parents. Season one followed the theme of Orvit getting kidnapped whilst season two was made up of three two part stories and changed things somewhat with lead character Melanie now living with an aunt and uncle.
cast
KIM McDONALD as Melanie Webb / ALISON GLENNIE as Katie (season one) /
KATRINA ROSE as Diana (season one) / CHARLES BOLTON as Richie Webb (season
one) / BRIDGET ARMSTRONG as Mrs Webb (season one) / MICHAEL COLES as Mr
Webb (season one) / PETE POSTLETHWAITE as Uncle Doug (season two) /
VENETIA MAXWELL as Aunt Jen (season two)
HOTEL EDDIE
UK / S4C-Apollo / 6x30m-e / 1999
Writer: Daniel Glyn / Producer/Director: Paul Jones
Sitcom.
With:- EMMA WALFORD / IWAN JOHN / NON PARRY / RACHEL SOLOMON / MATTHEW GLYNN / PHIL HARRIES / LISA REDWOOD
THE HOUNDCATS
USA / NBC-DePatie Freleng / 26x25m-e / 1972
Music: Doug Goodwin
Animated action adventure. Exploits of a group of secret agents who just happen to be cats and dogs.
HOW
UK / Southern / 500x25m-e / 1966-87 / 1990-continuing
Education based series that explained to children how things worked. Presenters included Fred Dinage, Bunty James and Jack Hargreaves. In 1990 the series was revived under the title How 2, Dinage again presented assisted by Gareth Jones and Carol Vorderman (who was replaced in turn by Gail Porter and then Gail McKenna, the show is still going strong in 2002, still with Dinage, Jones and McKenna).
HOW DO YOU DO
UK / BBC1 (See Saw) / 13x30m-e / 1977
Pre-school entertainment. An educational show for toddlers presented by Carol Munro.
HOWDY DOODY
USA / 1947-60
Entertainment show hosted by the puppet cowboy character Howdy Doody. Bob Keeshan never felt valued by the creators (especially Buffalo Bob Smith) who often gave him only minimal amounts to do. The team fired him in 1950 to national outrage and he was quickly rehired.
H. R. PUFNSTUFF
USA / NBC-Krofft Communications / 17x30m-e / 1969-70
Creators/Producers: Sid and Marty Krofft
Fantasy adventure series. A young boy, Jimmy, and his talking flute are transported to a fantasy world by the evil Witchiepoo. Dragon, H.R. Pufnstuff teams up with Jimmy to help defeat Witchiepoo.
With:- JACK WILD as Jimmy / BILLIE HAYES as Witchiepoo / JOAN GERBER / WALKER EDMINGTON / FELIX SILLA / JERRY LANDON
HUBBUB
UK / BBC1/Noel Gay / 52x15m-e / 1997-2000
Writers: Ben Keaton, Les Bubb / Producer: Sarah Lawrence
Comedy series. The mainly silent misadventures of eccentric magician Les.
With:- LES BUBB as Les / ELAINE C. SMITH as Rosa / BEN KEATON as Mr Tight
THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SHOW
USA / Syndicated-Hanna Barbera-Screen Gems / 195x30m-e / 1958-62
Writers: Joseph Barbera, warren Foster / Music:Joseph Barbera, Hoyt Curtin / Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Animated sitcom. The misadventures of Southern, 'Clementine' whistling dog Huckleberry Hound, who, Hancock's Half Hour like, was in a different profession each episode. Also seen in short segments on the show were Yogi Bear, Hoeky Wolf and Pixie & Dixie.
Voice:- DAWS BUTLER as Huckleberry Hound
HYPERLINKS
UK / BBC2 / 12x25m-e / 2000-2001
Design: Graham Rose / Scientific advisor: Tom Pringle / Producer: Ed Gray / Executive Producer: Claire Mundell / Director: Chris Webber
Science show looking at the science in everyday objects, linking in an internet style way to different subjects.
Presenters:- KATE HEAVENOR (season one)/ DOMINIC WOOD / DOCTOR BUNHEAD (season one) / HEATHER SUTTIE (from season two)/ MATT FELWICK (from season two) / and the voice of MATTHEW DAVIES
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