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PABLO,
THE LITTLE RED FOX
UK / BBC-ZDF-Millimages-Red Fox /
x10m-e/ 1999
Executive Producers: Theresa
Plummer Andrews, Jonathan Peel, Roch Lener / Music: Rowland Lee
Animated drama series. The
adventures of a young fox and his family.
Voices:- LOUISE GOLDSTEIN / DAVID
HOLT / EVE KARPF / ADRIENNE POSTA / BOB SAKER
PADDINGTON
UK / BBC1 / x5m-e / 1976
Creator: Michael Bond / Producer:
Graham Clutterbuck
Animated series. Paddington, a
cuddly bear from Peru with a seemingly insatiable appetite for jam, moves in
with the typically suburban family The Browns. Narrated by Michael Hordern.
PALACE HILL
UK / Central / 21x30m-e / 1988-91
Three seasons.
Writers: Peter Corey, Bob Hescott
/ Executive Producer: Lewis Rudd / Producer: Sue Nott
Sitcom. Various members of the Royal family attend a
Comprehensive school. Season three was set in outer space.
With:- PHILIP
WOMBWELL as Prince William (Season 1) / RICHARD
DE SOUSA as Prince Harry (Season 1) / PHOEBE WOOD as Princess Beatrice (Season2)
/ MARK
DEXTER as Chas Slough (Season3) /
DANIELLE TILLY as Di (Season 3) /
STEVEN RYDE as Jimmy /
OLIVER HAWKER as Nick Knuckle / KEELEY
COYON as Wendy(Seasons 1-2) / TESSA HARRISON as Maggie Thatcher (Seasons 2-3)
THE PAPERLADS
UK / Tyne Tees / x25m-e / 1978
Theme Music: "Back Home Once
Again" performed by Renaissance.
Drama series.
PAPERPLAY
UK / ITV Network / x10m-e / late
1970's - early 1980's
Preschool arts and activities
based show hosted by Susan Stranks (of Magpie fame), she was assisted by a pair
of glove puppet spiders named Itsy and Bitsy, also appearing was a rather silent
ladybird named Boris.
PARALLEL
9
UK / BBC1 / 1990's
Early 1990's Saturday morning
general entertainment show given a futuristic theme and supposedly set on the
planet Parralel 9. Presented by Lucinda Cowden (previously played Melanie in
Aussie soap Neighbours).
PARDON MY GENIE
UK / Thames / 26x30m-e / 1972-73
2 Seasons
Creator: Bob Block / Producer:
Daphne Shadwell
Fantasy sitcom. Young Hal
Adden, an assistant in a hardware
shop, is polishing an old watering can when a 4000 year old genie pops out of it, unfortunately
the Genie is more of a hindrance than a help.
With:- ELLIS
JONES as Hal Adden / ROY
BARRACLOUGH as Mr Cobbledick / HUGH
PADDICK as The Genie (Season 1) / ARTHUR
WHITE as The Genie (Season 2) / JOE
DUNLOP as PC Appleby / LYNETTE
ERVING as Patricia Cobbledick /
DORIS ROGERS as Mrs Sibley
PARENT CRAFT
UK / BBC / 6x25m-e / 1951
19 July - 27 September Thursdays 5.10pm shown Fortnightly
Writer: Robert Morley / Producer:
Alan Bromly
Sitcom. Episodes in the domestic life of the Pebble family
especially the children.
With:- JANET
BURNELL as Mrs Pebble /
WILLIAM MERVYN as Mr Pebble /
SHIRLEY EATON as Anne Pebble /
WILLIAM FOX as Irving Pebble / ROBERT MORLEY as R. Cressington-Tallboy
THE
PARTRIDGE FAMILY 2200 AD
USA / CBS / x20m-e / 1974-75
Animated scifi sitcom. A
futuristic version of The Partridge Family.
In this the group spent their time performing on different planets.
Voices:_ SUSAN DEY as Laurie
Partridge / DANNY BONADUCE as Danny Partridge / BRIAN FORSTER as Christopher
Partridge / DAVE MADDEN as Reuben Kinkaid
PATHFINDERS
UK / ABC / 27x25m-e / 1960-61
black and white
Creators: Malcolm Hulke, Eric Paice
/ Producer: Sydney Newman
Scifi drama series. A British family have adventures in space. Four
serials were produced. 1.TARGET LUNA, 2.PATHFINDERS IN SPACE 3.PATHFINDERS TO MARS, 4.PATHFINDERS TO
VENUS.
With:- PETER
WILLIAMS as Prof Wedgwood / GERALD FLOOD as Conway Henderson / GILLIAN FERGUSON
as Valerie Wedgwood / STEWART
GUIDOTTI as Geoffrey Wedgwood / RICHARD DEAN as Jimmy Wedgwood
PAULUS THE WOODGNOME
Holland
/ 40x10m-e / 1967
Creator: Jean Dulieu
Puppet animation series featuring
the adventures of Paulus the Woodgnome who lived in a tall tree in the
middle of the woods. His friends were the woodland animals and his enemy
was Eucalypta the Witch. The show was made in colour and dubbed into
English for distribution to the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Jean Dulieu made all the puppets for the series, the smallest of these
puppets being a 3cm mouse. He also made all the scenery and dwellings. All
the dwellings could be disassembled to allow camera access for interior
shots.
PAULINE'S
PEOPLE
UK / Thames / 12x30m-e / 1978-79
Entertainment. A mixture of chat,
sketches and music headlined by Pauline Quirke and her long time friend Linda
Robson. The pair had previously appeared in Pauline's Quirkes (see directly
below).
PAULINE'S
QUIRKES
UK / Thames / 6x30m-e /
1976 15 November - 20 December
Writer: Charles Verrall, Bill
Rice / Producer/Director: Roger Price
Comedy. An early starring
(sketch) vehicle for Pauline Quirke who had come to the prominence on the series
You Must Be Joking! Her fellow Birds of a
Feather sister Linda Robson appeared with her as did the pop group Flintlock,
Nula Conwell and Philip Elsmore.
PENNY
CRAYON
UK / BBC1 / 13x10m-e / 1990
Writer: Peter Maddocks
Animated series about a young
girl whose drawings come to life. Narrated by Su Pollard and Peter Hawkins.
PERCY
THE PARK KEEPER
UK / HIT-Grand Slamm-ITV / x10m-e
/ 1999-continuing
Music: Bob Haettie / Executive
Producer: Kate Fawkes / Producer: Ginger Gibbons / Director: Roger McIntosh
Animated adventures of a diligent
park keeper who has the animals that live in the park as his friends.
Voices:- JIM BROADBENT as
Percy / DAVID HOLT / KATE HARBOUR
THE
PERILS OF PENELOPE PITSTOP
USA / CBS-Hanna Barbera /
17x20m-e/ 1969
Animated sitcom. Race ace
Penelope Pitstop (also seen in the Wacky Races)
is hounded by the evil Sylvester Sneekly (self styled as The Hooded Claw) who
will stop at nothing to prevent Penelope getting past the winning post.
Voices:- JANET WALDO as Penelope
Pistop / PAUL LYNDE as Sylvester Sneekly / GARY OWENS as Narrator
PETALS
Australia / ABC /
110x5m-e / 1998-99
Producers: Mark
Bernard, Bronwyn Morgan / Animator: Maurice Giacomini
Pre-school animated
tales of five young flower creatures called Petals having adventures in an
overgrown garden.
PETER
CAVANAGH
UK / BBC / 1x20m-e / 1957 31
January Thursday 5.25pm
Producer: Johnny Downes
Comedy. One off special starring
impressionist Peter Cavanagh and Terry Scott.
PETER
PAN AND THE PIRATES
USA / x20m-e / 19?
Executive Producer: Buzz Potamkin
/ Source: Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
Animated adventure series. Peter Pan and
the Darling family do battle with the pirates in Neverland.
PETER
POTAMUS
USA / Hanna Barbera / 42x25m-e /
1964
A collection of cartoons, the
headliner being Peter Potamus the hippo and his assistant So So the Monkey.
Other segments featured Polar Bear and Seal Breezely and Sneezely and the dog
trio Yippy, Yappy and Yahooey.
PETER'S
TROUBLES
UK / BBC / 40x10m-e / 1953-58
black and white 8 seasons and four specials.
Comedy series featuring the
slapstick adventures of Carry On stalwart Peter Butterworth.
PET PALS
UK / BBC / 6x30m-e / 1965 21 May - 25 June
Fridays 5.05pm black and white
Creator: James Green / Writers:
George Evans, Derek Collyer / Producer: Barry Lupino
Sitcom. Jim opens a pet shop but doesn't like to sell
any of his stock.
With:-
JIM DALE as Jim /
RICHARD CALDICOTT as Mr Potter /
SYDNEY BROMLEY as Charlie
PETSWAP
UK / ITV / 13x25m-e / 2001
(First Episode: Wednesday 21 March 4.10pm)
Somewhat bizarre gungy/challenge
game show hosted by Dave Benson Phillips and Fearne Cotton and featuring
children involved in games based on the supposed activities of their own
pets.
PHILBERT
THE FROG
UK / BBC-Fat City Films / x5m-e/
1993
Writer: Phil Jackson / Executive
Producer: Heather Pedley, Theresa Plummer-Stevens / Producer/Director: Vincent
James
Animated adventures of a young
absent minded frog.
Voices:- ROB RACKSHAW
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1980
Producer: Dorothea Brooking /
Novel: E. Nesbit
Period fantasy drama serial.
In Victorian times five children discover a magic carpet and an Egg which hatches into a
phoenix who gets them involved in adventures.
With:-
TAMZIN NEVILLE as Anthea /
MAX HARRIS as Robert /
JANE FORSTER as Jane /
GARY RUSSELL as Cyril
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
UK / BBC1/Hit / 6x30m-e / 1997
Writer: Helen Cresswell /Novel:
E. Nesbit / Music: Paul Hart / Executive Producer: Anna Home / Director:
Michael Kerrigan
Period fantasy drama serial.
A group of Victorian children have adventures with a phoenix and a magic carpet. A previous
production occurred in 1980(see above entry).
With:-
JESSICA FOX as Anthea /
IVAN BERRY as Robert /
CHARLOTTE CHINN as Jane /
BEN SIMPSON as Cyril / MIRIAM MARGOYLES as Cook / DAVID
SUCHET as Voice of the Pheonix /
LESLEY DUNLOP as Eliza /
CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS as Mr Tonks
PICTURE
BOOK
UK / BBC / 560x30m-e / 1955-63
black and white
Preschool entertainment. A
mixture of stories and puppet fun with characters such as Bizzy Lizzy and the
Jolly Jack Tars. Presented by Patricia Driscoll and later Vera McKechnie. The
show was part of Watch With Mother and broadcast on Mondays.
PIGBOY
UK / BBC2 'Scene' / 1x30m-e / 1993
Writer: Stephen C. Handley /
Music: Tony MacAnaney / Director: James Cellan Jones
Teen drama. A youth has to cope with being sent to a
detention centre.
With:-
ALEX WALKINSHAW as Danny / BRIAN
COX as P.O. Garvey /
TONY DOYLE as Mr Lynch /
LYNDON DAVIES as Kevin / JAMES
COSMO as Reception Officer /
NICOLA COWPER as Janice / SIAN
PHILLIPS as Voice of Judge
PIGEON
STREET
UK / BBC-David Yates / 13x5m-e /
1981
Producers: David Yates, Alan
Rogers / Music: Benni Lees, played by Soulyard / Animation: Peter Lang
Animated adventures of a group of
pigeons.
Voices:- GEORGE LAYTON / JOHN
TELFER
PIGEON SUMMER
UK / C4/Catalyst 'Book Box' / x15m-e
/ 1995
Writer: Alma Cullen / Novel: Ann Turnbull
/ Producer: Richard Bramall / Director: Mary McMurray
Period drama serial. A schools production.
A young girl breeds racing pigeons in the depressed 1930's.
With:-
EMILY DAWE as Mary Dyer /
CHRISTINE KAVANAGH as Lina Dyer /
HOLLY DAVIDSON as Phyl Dyer / ADAM
LONERGAN as Lennie Dyer / DAVID
DAKER as Uncle Charley /
JAQUELINE TONG as Aunty Elsie /
GARETH MORRIS as Arnold Revell
PIG
HEART BOY
UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1999 7 - 23
December Tuesdays/Thursdays 5.10pm
Creator: Malory Blackman /
Writers: Malory Blackman, Caroline Sally Jones /
Music: NIck Bicat / Costume: Marlene Lawler / Design: George Kyriades / Script
Editor: Barbara Cox / Executive Producer: Elaine Sperber / Director: Kate
Cheesman / Producer: Diana Kyle.
Drama serial. 13 year old Cameron
Kelsey is ill with a bad heart, his one chance of survival is to have a
transplant and the only transplant available is an experimental pig heart one.
Producer Kyle and Director Cheesman won the BAFTA for best children's drama 2000 for
Pig Heart Boy.
With:- MARLON YEARWOOD as Cameron Kelsey /
PATRICK ROBINSON as Tyler Kelsey / CLARE PERKINS as Cathy Kelsey / MONA HAMMOND
as Nan Preston / SIMON WILLIAMS as Professor Rae / JONATHAN DE HERIT as Marlon
Bainbridge / KATE LYNN-EVANS as Dr Elstein
PIG'S
BREAKFAST
Australia / Channel
9 / 78x30m-e / 1999-2000
Creators: John
Thomson, Mark Shirreffs / Executive Producer: Noel Price
Scifi comedy drama
series. Grab and Meeba, a pair of alien kids crash land behind the Channel 9 TV
studios, teaming up with a pair of Earth kids, Rodney and Lucy they find
themselves as presenters on a TV show.
With:- NICHOLAS
RUSSELL as Rodney Green / EVE MORLEY as Lucy Green / HEATH McIVER as Grob /
JENNIFER PRIEST as Meeba / GEORGE KAPINIARIS and PHILIP MILLAR as Queegle /
ANNIE JONES as Sue Green / JEREMY HOPKINS as Philip Bailey / FRANCIS GREENSLADE
as Martin Green / PETA BRADY as Nancy / ERNIE GRAY as Mr Pratt / GARY
FILES as Mr Howard / GEOFF PAINE as Malcolm Wilson / SALLY COOPER as Dee (season
2)
PIGSTY
UK / BBC1 / 18x10m-e / 1990-91 2 seasons - Mondays 4.25pm
Creator/Producer: Pippa Dyson /
Writer: Paul A. Mendelson / Director: Steven Andrews
Stcom. Exploits of the staff of the Pizza cafe, who all
just happen to be pigs.
With:-
RICHARD GAUNTLETT as Troyboy /
TESSA CROCKETT as Pinks / PETER MANDELL as Little Pig / MARK HADFIELD as Mr
T
PINGU
Norway / Tricks Film Studio /
26x5m-e / 1989
Director: Otmar Guttman
Stop frame animated comedy.
Misadventures of penguin Pingu who lived on an ice cap with his Mum and
Dad.
THE
PINK PANTHER SHOW
USA / DePatie-Freleng / 32x30m-e
/ 1969-71
Executive Producers: David
DePatie, Fritz Freleng / Theme Music: Henry Mancini
Animated comedy/crime drama
series. Exploits of the Pink one (previously seen in the opening credits of the
Peter Sellers Pink Panther films). The Pink Panther also featured segments
detailing exploits of a dense French Police Inspector.
Voices:- PAT HARRINGTON JR / RICH
LITTLE / JOAN GERBER / LARRY STORCH / PAUL FREES / MARK SKOR
PINK
PANTHER AND SONS
USA / DePatie Freleng-Hanna
Barbera / x25m-e / 1984-85
Animated comedy series. A revival
of the Pink Panther series (see above) with whole new generation getting
up to mischief.
THE
PINK WINDMILL
UK / ITV / 1980's
A general entertainment show
starring Rod Hull and Emu who did regular with the evil witch Grotbags,
who later went on to her own show, also called Grotbags.
PINKY
AND PERKY
UK / BBC-Thames / 220?x30m-e /
1957-68/69-72
Creators: Jan and Vlasta Dalibor
/ Music: Norman Newell, Philip Green
Entertainment. Puppet pigs Pinky
(in Red) and Perky (in blue) run their TV station PPC TV helped by Horace Hare,
Conchita the Cow, Bertie the baby Elephant,Ambrose the Cat and the bird group
The Beakles. The very popular duo also featured in the hit parade during the
sixties and in 1969 the pair left the BBC and switched to ITV with Thames.
Presenters were Jimmy Thompson, John Slater, Roger Moffat, Brian Burdon and Fred
Emney. Often the Pinky and Perky series had differing titles such as Pinky and
Perky's Pop Parade (1960), Pinky and Perky's American Journey (1963) , Pinky and
Perky's Island (1967) and Pinky and Perky Times (1968). The Just Group entertainment
consortium have purchased the rights to Pinky and Perky and are planning to make
a whole new raft of episodes for 2001.
PINKY
AND THE BRAIN
USA / Warner-Amblin / x20m-e /
1997
Executive Producers: Steven
Spielberg, Jean MacCurdy
Animated adventure series. The
exploits of a pair of escaped laboratory mice.
Voices:- MAURICE LAMARCHE as The
Brain / ROB PAULSEN as Pinky / TRES MacNEILLE as Queen Roach / FRANK WELKER as
Mr President
PINWHEEL
USA / NIck / 1981-89
Educationalish children's show
mixing cartoons, puppet fun, songs and sketches.
With:- GEORGE JAMES as Jake /
ARLINE MIYAZAKI as Kim / DALE ENGEL as Smitty / BETTY ROZEK
as Sal
PINWINGS
UK / ITV-Smallfilms / 12x10m-e /
1965 black and white
Creators/Producers/Directors:
Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin
Stop frame animated comedy series. The
exploits of the strange knitted Pingwings on Berrydown Farm. Narrated by Oliver
Postgate.
PIPKINS
UK / ATV / 313x30m-e
/ 1973-81
Creators: Susan Pleat, David
Cregan, Michael Jeans / Music: Chris Hazell / Producer/Director: Michael Jeans /
Puppets: Jane Eve, Jill and Ian Lang
Preschool entertainment. Inigo Pipkins and
his puppets run the The Help People organisation using their 'skills' to help
those in need. Their base was the shop run by Pipkins. Seasons one and two were
known as Inigo Pipkins but following the death of the actor George Woodbridge
(who played Inigo) the title shortened to Pipkins and Wayne Laryea as Johnny
took over the business. The puppets included Hartley Hare, Topov the Monkey,
Octavia the Ostrich, Tortoise, Pig and The Doctor.
With:- WAYNE LARYEA as Johnny /
Puppets and voices by NIGEL PLASKITT, LORAIN BERTORELLI, ELIZABETH
LINDSAY, HEATHER TOBIAS, ANNE RUTTER and Alex Knight. SUE NICHOLLS played
neighbour Mrs Muddle.
PIPPI
LONGSTOCKING
Canada-Germany / Teletoon-AB
Svensk-Taurus-TFC-Nelvana Ltd / x20m-e / 1997-
Executive Producers: Michael
Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive Smith, MIchael Schaack, Lennart Wikland / Books:
Astrid Lindgren
Animated fantasy drama series.
Adventures of a young girl who lives all alone in a big house with a horse and a
pet monkey.
Voices:- MELISSA ALTRO as Pippi
Longstocking / RICHARD BINSLEY as Mr Nilsson / NOAH REID as
Tommy / OLIVIA GARRATT as Annika / LEN CARLSON as Thunder-Karlsson
PIRATES
UK / BBC1/Childsplay / 24x25m-e
/ 1994-97 3 seasons + 1 special
Creators: Rebecca Stevens, Peter Tabern
/ Executive Producers: Albert Barber, Jeremy Swan / Producer: Peter Tabern
Fantasy sitcom. A family of pirates decide to set up home on
dry land and move into a typical suburban street.
With:- PAUL
BOWN as Roger Bones / HAYLEY
ELLIOTT as Lambkin Bones / LIZ
SMITH as Abigail Blood /
BENJAMIN RENNIS as Lawrence Kitten /
ANDREW SACHS as Mr Jones /
DEBBY BISHOP as Helen Kitty
PIRATES
OF DARK WATER
USA / Hanna Barbera / 21x25m-e /
1991-93
Animated scifi adventure series.
A 17 year old warrior called Ren attempts to save his dying water filled planet
from the machinations of the evil pirate Bloth.
Voices:- GEORGE NEWBURN as Ren / TIM CURRY / RODDY
McDOWELL / HECTOR ELIZONDO as Ioz / BROCK PETERS / JESSICA WALTER / JUDI BENSON
as Tula / FRANK WELKER as Niddler
PITCH,
HIT AND RUN
UK / Channel 5 / x25m-e / 1998-
Lifestyle. A guide to all things
baseball presented by Eddie Matthews.
A PLACE TO HIDE
UK / ITV Network - ATV / 6x30 minute episodes / 4 January - 8 February 1976 / Sundays @ 3.50pm
Writer: Roy Russell / Designer: Stanley Mills / Producer: Shaun O'Riordan
Family action adventure serial. Ex-illusionist Bruno Valenta is now running an isolated guest house with his wife and two kids, little do they know that the three guest who have just arrived are on the run from the police and have £100,000 stolen from a bank on them.
With:- Hilary Crane as Laura Valenta / Arthur White as Mr Smith / Terry Duggan as Bruno Valenta / Frances Tomelty as Ann Smith
/ Brian Capron as Derry Smith / June Page as Madeleine Valenta / David Nunn as Ma
PLATEAU OF FEAR
UK / ABC / 6x30m-e / 1961
24 September - 29 October black and white
Producer: Guy Verney / Director:
Kim Mills
Adventure serial. A series of mysterious events occur at a power
plant in the Andes.
With:- JOHN
BARRON as Dr Miguel Aranda / JAN
MILLER as Dr Susan Fraser / GERALD
FLOOD as Mark Bannerman /
STEWART GUIDOTTI as Peter Blake /
PETER ALLENBY as Lorca / FERDY
MAYNE as Gen Villagran
PLAY
AWAY
UK / 500x30m-e / 1971-84
Theme Music: Lionel Morton /
Producers: Ann Reay, Cynthia Felgate, John Smith, Anne Gobey
Comedy and music series shown
Saturday afternoons and aimed at the infant school set.
With:- BRIAN CANT / DEREK
GRIFFITHS / TONY ROBINSON / ANITA DOBSON / FLOELLA BENJAMIN / TONI ARTHUR /
JEREMY IRONS
PLAYDAYS
UK / BBC-Felgate / x25m-e /
1990-continuing
Producer: Andrew Thomas / Music:
Richard Brown
Pre school show that carried on
where Playschool (see below) left off. Each day the Playdays bus stopped off at
a different (studio) location. Presenters included Caitrin Menna, Robin Muller,
David Rubin. Puppet Voices:- SUE MONROE as Poppy / SALLY PRESIG as Peggy Patch
PLAY
SCHOOL
UK / BBC2 / 4000x30m-e / 1964-88
Creator: Joy Whitby
A pre school show for tots, long
running presenters included Brian Cant, Derek Griffiths, Floella Benjamin,
Johnny Ball, Toni Arthur, Gordon Rollings, Virginia Stride, Brian Croucher, Eric
Thompson, Phyllida Law (Eric Thompon's wife) and Julie Stevens. The real stars
of the show however were the dolls Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted, Jemima and
Hamble, (in a fit of PC Hamble was later replaced by the black doll Poppy). Each
edition saw the presenters glance through one of three windows, Round, Arch and
Square to see what story would be told. A long running Australian
version of the show was launched in 1966 by the Nine Network.
PLUM'S PLOTS AND PLANS
UK / BBC1 / 3x30m-e / 1977 9 - 23 December
Fridays 4.40pm
Creator: Kay King / Writer: Peter Robinson
/ Executive Producer: Anna Home / Director: Jeremy Swan
Comedy adventure series. The adventures of Cornelius Plum whose plans
usually go awry.
With:- ARTHUR
HOWARD as Cornelius Plum /
AUBREY WOODS as Major Huffin / WILLIAM HOOTKINS as Dr Pretzel
PODDINGTON
PEAS
UK / BBC-Cairnvale-Poddington
PLC / x5m-e / 19?
Writer: Paul Needs / Executive
Producer: Ian Green / Music: Geoff Stephens / Producer: Laurie Frost / Director:
Colin White
Animated fantasy series. Tales of
a group of Peas living 'down at the bottom of a garden, among the birds and the
bees'. Characters included the evil Creepy and black eyed Pea who tried their
best to spoil things for the others like the huge Dumpy, speedy Zippy,
Sweet Pea and constable PC Pod. The peas acted a bit like the residents of
an English village with vegetable shows and the like. Narrated by Neil
Pearson
POGLE'S
WOOD
UK / BBC1-Smallfilms / 13x15m-e /
1966-67 black and white
Creators/Producers/Directors:
Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin / Writer: Oliver Postgate / Music: Vernon
Elliott
Puppet adventure series. The
Pogle family live at the bottom of a tree in Pogle Wood. Shown as part of Watch
With Mother.
POKEMON
Japan / TV Tokyo-Softx-Summit
Media-4Kids / x20m-e / 1997-continuing
Story: Satoshi Tajiri /
Translations: Paul Taylor / Theme Music: John Loeffer, John Siegler /
Executive Producers: Norman J. Grossfield, Alfred Kahn, Tom Kennedy
Animated super hero saga based on
a NIntendo computer game in which a young boy aims to become the worlds greatest
Pokemon (Pocket Monster) master but first must beat all other Pokemon masters to
realise his dream.
Voices:- RIKAKO AIKAWA / ADAM
BLAUSTEIN / MANDY BONHOMME / KEN GATES / STAN HART / MEGUMI HAYASHIBARA
POLKA
DOT SHORTS
Canada / TV Ontario / 168x20m-e /
1994-continuing
Creator/Producer: Jed MacKay /
Executive Producers: Adrian Mills, Patricia Ellingson / Music: John Arpin, Bruce Ley
Pre school entertainment with
adults in puppet style costumes and featuring a mixture of games and learning
activities.
Complete cast: Greg Lanthier, Line
Roberge, Brunella Batista, Charles P Schott, Alisa Walton. / Complete
Voice cast: Andrew Sabiston, Tony Daniels, Julie Lemieux, Brian Moffatt,
Deborah Drakeford.
POLTERGUESTS
UK / Carlton / 8x25m-e / 1999
Creators/Associate Producers: Lee Pressman
/ Music: Tony Gibber / Design: Alex Clarke / Costume: Raymond Childe, Vandra Howard
/ Executive Producer: Michael Forte
Spooky sitcom. A family open an hotel only to find it already
occupied by a family of ghosts.
With:-
JESSICA TURNER as Annie /
LAURA HARLING as Ella /
ASHLEY ARTUS as Tristan /
RICHARD BRAINE as Squiffy / EMIL
WOLK as Kneecaps
POP
QUEST
UK / Yorkshire / 39x30m-e /
1975-78 three seasons
Pop quiz with knockout rounds
etc. Hosted by Kid Jenson and Sally James.
POPS
AND LENNY
UK / BBC / x20m-e / 1962-63 black
and white
Entertainment series. Fun and
games with puppet Lenny the Lion and his ventriloquist master Terry Hall. The
Beatles made an early TV appearance on this show. See also Lenny
the Lion and Lenny's Den.
PORTLAND
BILL
UK / Filmfair / 13x10m-e / 1986
Design: John Grace, Barry Leith /
Music: John Grace, Mick Parsons / Producer: Barrie Edwards / Executive Producer:
Graham Clutterbuck
Stop frame animation series. The
adventures of lighthouse keeper Portland Bill and his two assistants. Narrated
by Norman Rossington.
POSTMAN
PAT
UK / BBC1-Woodlands / 13x15m-e
4x30m-e / 1981
Creator: John Cunliffe / Music:
Bryan Daly / Producer: Ivor Wood
Stop frame animated series
following the adventures of rural postman Pat and his black and white cat Jess
as he delivers his letters around Greendale. The original 13 have recently been
joined by 13 more in which Pat has a wife and a teenage son. Narrated by Ken
Barrie who also sang the theme tune.
POTTER'S PICTURE PALACE
UK / BBC1 / 13x25m-e / 1976/78
Writers: Brian Finch, Phil Redmond,
Dick Sharples / Producer: John Buttery / Directors: Tony Harrison (Season 1), Jeremy
Swan (Season 2)
Sitcom. Peter Potter inherits a run down picture house
from his Auntie and tries to restore it to its former glory, although in season one his cousin Reggie
did his best to try and stop him.
With:- EDEN PHILLIPS as Peter
Potter / MELVYN
HAYES as Melvyn Didsbury / JOHN
COMER as Sidney Bogart / DAVID LODGE as Reggie Turpin (Season 1) / ANGELA CROW
as Joan Biddle /
COLIN EDWYNN as Frank Plank /
BRUCE WATT as The Kid (Season 1) / MARK DEMPSEY as Desmond Bagshaw (Season
2)
POTTY
TIME: See Michael Bentine's Potty Time
THE
POWERPUFF GIRLS
USA / Cartoon Netword-Hanna
Barbera / x15m-e / 1998-
End title music: Bis / Executive
Producer: Linda Simensky
Animated adventure series. A trio
of super heroines often find themselves called upon to save the world.
Voices:- TOM KENNY / CATHERINE
CAVADINI / E.G. DAILY / TARA CHARENDOFF / TOM KANE / ROGER JACKSON
POWERS
BBC1 / 13x25m / started 7 January 2004
Writer: Jim Eldridge
Scifi drama series. Professor Henry Powers runs the Powers Project aided by Dr Mary Holland and two teenagers who have telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Together they investigate strange paranormal phenomena.
With: - RUPERT HOLLIDAY-EVANS as Henry Powers / MANDANA JONES as Mary Holland / ADAM JESSOP as Mark / AMY YAMAZAKI as Song Li
PRESENT
TIME
USA / John Schmidt Prod-Zondervan
/ x30m-e / 1997
Writer/Producer: John Schmidt /
Music: James Covell / Executive Producer: Dave Ross, Scott Bolinder
Religious adventure series.
Josh's computer is able to transport him back through time where he is able to
meet various biblical characters.
With:- STEVEN HARRIS as Josh /
TARA STREETER as Emily
PRESS GANG
UK / Central/Richmond / 36x25m-e
/ 1989-93
Creator: Bill Moffat / Writer:
Steven Moffat / Producer: Sandra C. Hastie
Drama series. Teenager Lynda Day and a group of her friends
run their own newspaper. Lynda also had a love hate relationship with American Spike Thomson.
With:-
JULIA SAWALHA as Lynda Day / DEXTER
FLETCHER as Spike Thomson / LEE
ROSS as Kenny Phillips / PAUL
REYNOLDS as Colin Matthews /
LUCY BENJAMIN as Julie Craig / KELDA
HOLMES as Sarah Jackson /
GABRIELLE ANWAR as Sam Black /
MMOLOKI CHRISTIE as Frazz Davis / CLIVE WARD as Matt Kerr /
SADIE FROST as Jennie Eliot /
CHARLIE CREED-MILES as Danny McColl
PRETENDERS
UK / HTV / 13x30m-e /
1987
Writer: Paul Nicholson /
Producers: Patrick Dromgoole, Leonard White / Director: David Boisseau
Period drama serial. Three children
get caught up in the 1785 Monmouth Rebellion culminating in the battle of
Sedgemoor.
With:-
FREDERICK JAEGER as Joachim /
CURTIS ARDEN as Elam /
ELIZABETH ROBILLARD as Perfect /
NEIL McCARTHY as Henschall /
ROBIN NEDWELL as Parsons /
HEDLEY GOODALL as Betterbridge /
JONATHAN NEWTH as Morton
PRINCESS
SISSI
France-Canada / Saban Int-Fox
Kids / x20m-e / 1997
Story Arc: Dab Sivalon, Natalie
Altmann / Music: Michael Dax
Animated adventure series.
Stories of a young princess Tomboy and her regular battles with the evil Count
Arkas.
Voices:- SONJA BALL / RICK JONES
/ MICHAEL CALOZ / SHEENA LARKIN / MARK CAMACHO / RICKY MABE
PRIVATE EYE
UK / STV 'Dramarama' / 1x25m-e / 1985
Writer: Janice Hally / Producer:
Robert Love / Director: Jim McCann
Fantasy crime drama. A young man obsessed with American private
eye movies gets involved in a real life crime.
With:- OLIVER WHITE as Stephen
Mackenzie / BRIDGET BIAGI as Elspeth Mackenzie / MARTIN
COCHRANE as John Mackenzie /
ROBERT PATERSON as Barpov /
MICHAEL SEGAL
PUMP
IT UP
UK / ITV-Carlton / 26x25m-e /
1999-2000 Season One: February 26 -May 21 Fridays 4.15pm
Executive Producer: David Mercer
/ Devisors: The Chatterbox Partnership
Action based game show in which
the contestants faced a series of physical 'Gladiator' style challenges set in a
huge inflatable arena. Hosted by Julia Bradbury (season one), Andy Collins
and Ferne Cotton (season 2)
THE
PUPPY'S FURTHER ADVENTURES
USA / Ruby Spears / x20m-e / 1983
Creator: Jayne Theyner /
Producer: Mark Jones / Executive Producers: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Animated adventure series.
A sequel to The Puppy's New Adventures (see below) with the young puppy getting
involved in further mischief.
Voices:- MICHAEL BELL / PETER
CULLEN / NANCY McKEON / BILLY JACOBY / TONY O'DELL / JANET WALDO / JOHN
STEPHENSON
PUPPY'S
NEW ADVENTURES
USA / Ruby Spears / x20m-e / 1982
Executive Producers: Bill Hanna,
Joseph Barbera, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears / Titles: Bill Perez / Characters: Jane
Thayer
Animated adventure series. A
young puppy (along with a group of stowaway dogs) are washed overboard of the
ship they are on, the older dogs determine to reunite the puppy with his master.
Voices:- CASEY KASEM / DON
MESSICK / FRANK WELKER / MICHAEL BOLL / BILLY JACOBY / PETER CULLEN / NANCY
McKEON
PUSHFUL
AND PIEFACE
UK / BBC / 1x5m-e 1x10m-e 1x15m-e
/ 1957 black and white
Writer: David Edwards /
Producers: Vere Lorrimer, Richard West (show three)
Comedy. Three slapstick based
short comedies. 1. 29 March - Friday 5.50pm / 2. 10 July - Wednesday 5.45pm / 3.
14 October - Friday 5.45pm. Sir Hugh Pushful PTO RSVP was played by a different
actor in each show. 1. PETER HOWELL / 2. RAYMOND ROLLETT / 3. BILL FRASER. Pieface
was played by BOB HARRIS.
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