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SLOGGERS
UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1995
Writer: Syd Waddell
Sitcom. The misadventures of a young cricket team in
Slogthwaite, Lancashire.
With:-
PHILLIP EARLEY as Lenny Higgs /
ANNIE HULLEY as Di Higgs /
JEREMY BULLOCH as Barry Higgs / SAM
FAIRBROTHER as Geoffrey Higgs /
JANE DAWSON as Roz /
RALF LITTLE as Scooby /
DAVID BLAIKIE as Matey
THE
SLOW NORRIS
UK / HTV-United / x10m-e / 1997-
Music: John Du Prez /
Producer/Director: Bob Harvey
Puppet based series in which the
Slow Norris emerges from his cave to learn about life from his friends Allie,
Ben Beetle and Walter Worm. Puppeteers were Philip Eason, Simon Buckley, William
Todd Jones, Katherine Smee, Alison McGowan
Voices:- NICK RYAN / GARY MARTIN
/ DANIELLE DEL GUIDICE / BUDDIE MADDICOTT
SMALL
TIME
UK / Associated Rediffusion /
1955-66 black and white
Crearor: Eric Spear /
Producer/Director: Pat Baker
Entertainment series
for pre school kids and presented by Susan Spear. Some regions broadcast the
show at lunchtimes whilst other broadcast it around 4.45pm.
THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMUEL TWEET
UK / BBC1 / 12x25m-e / 1974-75
Writer: Gary Knight / Producer:
Tony Harrison
Sitcom. Misadventures of Samuel Tweet who works in a
pet shop in the small village of Chumpton Green.
With:- FREDDIE
DAVIES as Samuel Tweet / CARDEW
ROBINSON as Lord Chumpton / DAMARIS
HAYMAN as Miss Doogoodie / COLIN
EDWYNN as PC Wicketts / PRUE CLARKE as Sandra Jones (Season 2) / NORMAN
TURKINGTON as Russell Chumpton (Season 2)
SMART
UK / BBC1 / x25m-e /
1996-continuing
Art entertainment. Tips for kids
on a variety of artistic styles, presented by Mark Speight and Jay Burridge.
Female presenters have been Zoe Ball, Josie D'Arby and Kirsten O'Brien.
SMART
GUY
USA / Disney-Warner-Danny Kallis
/ x25m-e / 1997-99
Creator: Danny Kallis / Music:
Kurt Farquhar / Executive Producers: Danny Kallis, Suzanne DePasse, Suzanne
Coston, Irene Dreayer
Sitcom. A young boy T.J. with a
high IQ and much brain power joins the older kids at High School. The lead Tahj
Mowry is the younger brother of the stars of Sister
Sister.
With:- TAHJ MOWRY as T.J.
Henderson / JOHN MARSHALL JONES / JASON WEAVER / OMAR GOODING / ESSENCE ATKINS
SMOKESCREEN
UK / BBC1/Red Rooster / 6x25m-e
/ 1993
Writer: James Andrew Hall /
Novel: Elsie McCutcheon
Period drama serial. In 1907, a young girl gets mixed up with an aspiring
film maker and a wicked cinema owner.
With:- TIMOTHY
WEST as Mr Sheringham /
PAULA WILCOX as Sara Beau /
ANITA DOBSON as Gertie /
JOAN SIMS as Mrs Nash / KATE HARDIE as Miss Sheringham /
PETER GUINESS as Albert Gold / SALLY
WALSH as Chrissie
Gallant /
KATE O'REGAN as Windsor
SM:TV
LIVE
UK / LWT-Zenith(98-99)-Granada-Blaze(from
99-) / x125m-e / 1998-continuing (First Episode: Saturday 29 August 98)
Music: Steve Brown
Anarchic Saturday morning
entertainment hosted by former pop singers/actors Ant McPartlin and Declan
Donnelly. Co-host was Cat Deeley. There were plenty of games on display such as
Splatoon, Wonky Donky and Challenge Ant. The trio also did their own pastiche
sitcom version of Friends called CHUMS.
Directly following on from this show was CD:UK
a chart rundown show also presented by Cat, Ant and Dec. Ant, Dec and Cat left
in late 2001 and the show is now presented by Tess Daly, Claire and H from Steps and Brian Dowling (the winner of Big Brother 2).
SMUGGLERS BEWARE
Australia / ABC / 4x30m-e /
1963 Black and white (First Episode: 4 January)
Writer: Eleanor Witcombe /
Producer: Beverley Gledhill / Directors: Philip East, Peter Summerton
Adventure series. A group
of kids get caught up with a bunch of smugglers. This was the ABC's first
attempt at a comedy drama for kids.
With:- JACK ALLEN / PADDY
CONROY / BRNEDON LUNNEY / ANN BEECHER / RUTH CRACKNELL / ALASTAIR ROBERTS
/ NOEL BROPHY / NIGEL LOVELL
SNAP
UK / ITV/ Tetra / x25m-e / 1996-continuing
Creators: Grant Cathro, Lee Pressman
/ Music: Alan Coates, Kim Goody / Script Editor: Clare Batty
Sitcom. The adventures of youngsters involved with a
photographic studio.
With:- GERARD HORAN as Dave
(Seasons 1-2) / IAN REDDINGTON as Paul (Season 3-) /
LEANNE HAILWOOD as Ellen /
DEAN COOK as Ben /
KIRSTY BRUCE as Alice
THE
SNORKS
USA / Hanna Barbera / x20m-e /
1984
Executive Producers: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Freddy Monnickendam / Music: Hoyt Curtin / Director:
Carl Urbano
Animated adventures of the
undersea creatures of the title.
Voices:- MICHAEL BELL / NANCY
CARTWRIGHT / JOAN GERBER / BOB HOLT / PAUL KIRBY / MITZI McCALL / EDIE McCLURG /
CLIVE REVILL / FRANK WELKER
THE
SNOWMAN
UK / Channel Four / 1x35m-e /
1982 26 December
Music: Howard Blake / The song
Walking in the Air sung by Aled Jones / Book: Raymond Briggs / Producer: John
Coates / Executive Producer: Iain Harvey / Director: Dianne Jackson / Animation:
Jimmy Murakani, Stephen Weston, Robin White
Animated fantasy. On Christmas
Eve a young boy is taken on a magical adventure to the North Pole by a Snowman.
Part of Channel Fours regular Christmas line up, the station makes a point of
showing each year.
THE SNOW SPIDER
UK / HTV / 6x25m-e / 1988
Writer: Jenny Nimmo
Fantasy drama serial. A young boy enters a magical fantasy world
when his grandmother gives him five strange birthday presents. See also Emlyn's
Moon, a kind of sequel.
With:-
OSSIAN ROBERTS as Gwyn /
SIAN PHILLIPS as Nain
SNUG AND COZI
UK / Scottish / 13x10m-e / 1996-97
Writer: Richard Vobes / Executive
Producer: Elizabeth Partyka / Producer/Directors: Martyn Day (Season 1), Haldane
Duncan (Season 2)
Comedy series. Mainly silent slapstick style adventures of two
aliens stranded on Earth.
With:-
RICHARD VOBES as Snug /
NIGEL COOPER as Cozi /
SARAH MONTGOMERY as Emily
THE
SOOTY SHOW
UK / BBC-Thames-Granada (from
1992) / x25m-e / 1955-97
Creator: Harry Corbett
Puppet entertainment. Escapades
of the glove puppet Sooty and his friends Sweep and girlfriend Soo. Sooty made
his TV debut in 1952 on Talent Night and in 1967 crossed over from the BBC to
ITV. After Harry retired his son Matthew took up the mantle until 1997 when
Corbett sold control of the series for over a million pounds. From 1992 the show
was titled Sooty and Co. See also below for Sooty Heights.
SOOTY
HEIGHTS
UK / Granada-Sooty Films / x20m-e
/ 1999-
Writer: Peter Corey / Titles: A
Shot in the Dark / Music: Dave Corbett / Puppeteers: Brian Sandford, Crispin
Lowrey, Craig Almond / Executive Producers: Steven Andrew, John Stephens
Puppet comedy series. Puppet
Sooty takes over the running of a hotel calling it Sooty Heights.
With:- RICHARD CADELL / LIANA
BRIDGES / Voices of Dotty and Sue:- BRENDA LONGMAN
SOUTH BY SOUTH-EAST
UK / TVS/Red Rooster / 6x30m-e / 1991
26 March - 30 April Tuesdays 4.40pm
Writer/Director: Anthony Horowitz
/ Executive Producer: Linda James, Stephen Bayly / Producer: Richard Turner
Sitcom. 15 year old Nick Diamond is the brains behind his
brother's private detective agency. Based on the 1988 film Just Ask For Diamond.
With:- DURSLEY
McLINDEN as Tim Diamond / COLIN
DALE as Nick Diamond / GORDON WINTER as Boyle /
MICHAEL FEAST as Snape /
JOHNATHON COLEMAN as Mr Blondini
SPACE
CASES
USA / Nickelodeon-Cinar /
13x25m-e / 1997
Creators: Bill Mumy, Peter David
/ Theme Music: Bill Mumy, Paul Gordon
Scifi comedy drama series. A
group of five Space Academy cadets find themselves 'lost in space' aboard an
alien spaceship, the Christa.
With:- EMMANUEL JONES as Harlan
Brand / CHRISTIAN AYRE as Radu / JEWEL STAITE as Catalina / PAIGE CHRISTINA as
Rosie Ianni / RAHI AZIZI as Bova / ANIK MATTERN as Thelma / CARY LAWRENCE as T.J.
Davenport / PAUL BORETSKI as Cmdr Seth Goddard
THE
SPACE GHOST
USA / Hanna Barbera / 20x25m-e /
1966-67
Animated scifi. Crime fighter the
space ghost (he can turn himself invisible) and two teenagers travel through
space fighting evil.
SPACE
PATROL
UK / NIP-Wonderama / 39x30m-e /
1963-64
Creator: Roberta Leigh /
Producers: Roberta Leigh, Arthur Povis
Puppet series. The exploits of
Captain Larry Dart who worked for the United Galactic Organisation.
Voices:- DICK VOSBURGH / RONNIE
STEVENS / LIBBY MORRIS
SPACE SCHOOL
UK / BBC / 4x30m-e / 1956 8 - 29 January
black and white
Writer: Gordon Ford / Design:
Gordon Roland / Producer: Kevin Sheldon
Scifi drama serial. Adventures of three children living on a space
satellite.
With:- JOHN STUART as Commodore Hugh
Sterling / MATTHEW LANE as Sp Capt Michael O'Rorke / DONALD
McCORKINDALE as Tubby Thompson /NEIL
McCALLUM as Sam Scroop / JULIE
WEBB as Miss Osborne
SPACEVETS
UK / BBC1 / 39x25m-e / 1992-94 / 3 Seasons
Creator: Stephen Edmondson, Jerome
Vincent / Producer: Greg Childs
Scifi comedy series. Exploits of the staff of the vetinary spaceship
Dispensable.
With:- BERNARD
WRIGHT as Number Two / MARK ARDEN as Capt Skip Chip(Season 3) / ANN BRYSON
as Mona
SPATZ
UK / Thames/PGI / 33x30m-e / 1990-92
/ Three seasons
Creator: Andrew Bethall /
Executive Producer: Charles Falzon, Alan Horrox
Sitcom. A Canadian hamburger restaurant chain open a
branch in the UK, with the series following the exploits of its bungling staff.
With:- JENNIFER
CALVERT as Karen Hansson /
PAUL MICHAEL as T.J /
STEPHANIE CHARLES as Debbie / JOE
GRECO as Vince Powers /
VAS BLACKWOOD as Dexter /
LING TAI as Lily Quang /
JOHNATHON COPESTAKE as Stanley /
SUE DEVANEY as Joe (Season 1) / KATY
MURPHY as Freddy(S2-3)
SPELLBINDER
Australia / Telewizja Prod-Film
Australia / 26x30m-e / 1995
Creators: Mark Shirrifs, John
Thomson / Executive Producers: Ron Saunders, Kris Noble, Andrzed Stempowski
Fantasy drama series. Teenager
Paul Reynolds finds himself in a parallel world that is like Earth of hundreds
of years ago and magic Spellbinders rule things. He is befriended by a girl
called Riana. A second serial called Spellbinder II quickly emerged.
With:- ZBYCH TROFIMIUK as Paul
Reynolds / GOSIA PIOTROWSKI as Alex Katsonis / MICHAELA NOONAN as Katrina
Muggleton / ANDREW McFARLANE as Brian Reynolds / HEATHER MITCHELL as Ashka /
KRZYSTOF KUMOR as Correon / RAFAL ZWIERZ as Gryven / PIOTR ADAMCZYK as Zander /
GEROGINA FISHER as Christine Reynolds / ERLAN BUCHAN as Jal
SPIDER-MAN
USA / ABC-Marvel-Grantray-Lawrence-Krantz
/ 52x30m-e / 1967-69
Executive Producers: Robert L.
Lawrence, Ralph Bakshi
Animated scifi drama series.
After being bitten by a radioactive spider Peter Parker finds himself
transformed into superhero Spiderman.
Voices:- BERNARD COWAN as
Peter/Spiderman(1) / PAUL SOLS as Peter/Spiderman (2)
SPIDERMAN
AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS
USA / Marvel / 32x30m-e / 1981
Animated adventure series.
Spiderman and his friends Firestar and Iceman help keep the streets free of
villains.
SPIDER-WOMAN
USA / DePatie Freleng / 16x20m-e
/ 1979-80
Executive Producers: Davdi De Patie, Fritz Freleng
Animated scifi adventure series
detailing the exploits of the superhero of the title.
Voices:- JOAN VAN ARK as
Spider-Woman
SPIN OFF
UK / TVS / 28x10m-e / 1989 3 September - 18 March
Saturday 10.55am
Producer/Director: David Crozier
Sitcom. A segment that appeared each week in the
Saturday morning show Motormouth and followed the exploits of the staff of a bizarre shop.
With:- ROGER SLOMAN / RICHARD WAITES
/ PIPPA MICHAELS / JOE GRECO
SPYWATCH
UK / BBC2 (Look
and Read) / 10x5m-e / 1996
Writer: Derek Farmer / Music:
Peter Howell / Executive Producer: Frank Flynn / Producer/Director: Nicholas
Whines
Period drama serial. During World
War II a group of evacuated children think they have a spy in their midst. Shown
as part of BBC School's Look and Read series.
With:- KEITH BARRON as Starkey /
JOSEPHINE D'ARBY as Lee / ROGER KITTER as CD Rom / RAYMOND PICKARD as
Norman Starkey / RUSSELL TOVEY as Dennis Seales / SOPHIE WARD as Polly Hobbs /
JOSIE McCABE as Mary Parker / ROSEMARY LEACH as Aunty Amy / LESLEY JOSEPH as
Miss Millington / NORMAN BIRD as Cyril Jenkins / ABIGAIL THAW as Vivienne
Bellins / TERENCE MAYNARD as Mike Johnson / JOSEPH ALESSI as Luigi Balzoni
THE SQUARE LEOPARD
UK / HTV / 6x30m-e / 1980 12 August - 16 September
Tuesdays 4.45pm
Writer/Producer: Peter Miller /
Director: Jan Darnley Smith
Sitcom. Struggling solicitor Gerald Parish has to find
himself a wife and family quickly in order to inherit a fortune.
With:- JOHN
LEYTON as Gerald Parish /
TOBY WALDOCK as Toby /
MARK EVANS as Richard /
JAYNE TOTTMAN as Joanna /
MARCUS D'AMICO as Bill /
RICHARD KELLOW as David / JANET
KEY as Mary Lampert /
SORCHA CUSACK as Nesta Wright
STACY
STONE
UK / BBC1
/ 16x25 / 2001-2002
Comedy.
Stacy Stone works on the agony aunt page of the school newspaper and helps
her fellow pupils sort out their problems.
With:- LORNA CRAIG as Stacy Stone / JACK NELSON as Ed / SOPHIE MCCABE as Joanne / TIFFANY MULHERON as Nat / RYAN MURPHY as Matt
STAINLESS STEEL AND THE STAR SPIES
UK / Thames / 1x60m-e / 1981 1 January - Thursday 4.45pm
Writer: Gray Jolliffe / Executive
Producer: Verity Lambert / Producer: Ray Corbett / Director: Anthony Simmons
Scifi comedy.
A group of robot alien 'The
Metaliens' plan to take over the universe. The series combined live action with puppetry.
With:- DERYCK GUYLER as Vicar /
ANNA KAREN as Mum /
DEBORAH FARRINGTON as Young Girl /
CHARLES PEMBERTON as Dad /
FABIA DRAKE as Miss Ruby.
STALKY AND CO
UK / BBC / 6x30m-e / 1982
Writer: Alexander Baron / Novel:
Rudyard Kipling / Producer: Barry Letts / Director: Rodney Bennett
Period comedy drama serial. Escapades of a group of teenagers at a public
school in Victorian times.
With:- ROBERT ADDIE / ROBERT BURBAGE
/ SIMON SHEPHERD / DAVID PARFITT / FREDERICK TREVES / JOHN WOODNUTT / DOMINIC JEPHCOTT
STANLEY'S DRAGON
UK / Central/Gatetarn / 4x25m-e
/ 1994
Writer: Richard Carpenter /
Producer/Director: Gerry Poulson
Fantasy drama serial. Young American teenager Stanley, living in England,
is out potholing when he discovers a huge centuries old egg which later hatches into a dragon.
With:- JUDD TRICHTER as
Stanley / MIA FOTHERGILL / MILTON JOHNS / PAUL VENABLES /
PETER CELLIER
STAR
UK / ITV1 / x30m / started 18 September 2003
Comedy drama series. Bradley Fisher is an Oscar winning Hollywood superstar - he is also a 13 year old British schoolboy who attends an average British school and has to contend with the difficulties his fame brings to his life and a sister who will go to extraordinary lengths to bring him down a peg or two.
With:- NICHOLAS HOULT as Bradley / GREGG CHILLIN as Mitch / HANNAH TOINTON as Billie / JENNIFER HIGHAM as Nicole (sister) / MARK WILLIAMS as Mr Dorking / JULIA HILLS as Mrs Fisher
STAR
FLEET
Japan / Leah Internation Jin
Productions / 24x30m-e / 1982
Writer: Michael Sloan / Music: Paul
Bliss / Executive Producer: Kevin Morrison / Producer/Director: Louis Elman
Animated scifi
puppet series. In the year 2999 at the end of Space War Three planet Earth is
trying to rebuild the Solar System. The Earth's Star Fleet meanwhile, headed by
General Kyle, have to protect the young boy who has the power to bring peace to
the universe from the machinations of the evil Imperial Master.
STAR STREET
UK / ITV / x25m / 2001-continuing
The comedy adventures of pop group ALL STARS who live together in a house.
A kind of ITV attempt to make a kind of S Club 7 type show.
All Stars:- SAM BLOOM / THAILA ZUCCHI / ASHLEY-TAYLOR DAWSON / REBECCA HUNTER / SANDI LEE-HUGHES
STAR
TREK - ANIMATED
USA / Filmation / 22x25m-e / 1974-75
Producer: Norm Prescott / Director:
Hal Sutherland
Animated scifi drama series. A
continuation of the Star Trek sage after it looked like there would be no more
live action shows made, this features most of the original cast still boldly
going where no man had gone before. Many of the original Trek writers (D.C.
Fontana etc) also contributed to the show making the show a pretty high calibre
one.
Voices:- WILLIAM SHATNER as Captain
James T. Kirk / LEONARD NIMOY as Mr Spock / DEFOREST KELLY as Bones / JAMES
DOOHAN as Scotty / GEORGE TAKEI as Mr Sulu / NICHELLE NICOLS as Lt Uhura
STICK WITH ME KID
UK / Disney / 13x60m-e / 1995
Comedy crime drama series. 13 year old detective genius Rip Hilliard hires
second rate actor Grant Logan to pose as the front man for his detective agency.
With:- KRISTOPHER MILES as Rip
Hilliard / LEIGH
LAWSON as Grant Logan /
LOUISE JAMESON as Mrs Hilliard
STIG OF THE DUMP
UK / Thames / 10x30m-e / 1981
Novel:Clive King Executive
Producer: Pamela Lonsdale / Producer: Sheila Kinany / Director: Richard Handford
Fantasy drama serial. Young Barney befriends a boy from prehistoric
times who happens to be living in a den in a chalk pit.
With:- KEITH JAYNE as Stig
/
GRANT ASHLEY WARNOCK as Barney
STIG OF THE DUMP
UK / BBC1 / 6x30m-e / 2002
First Episode: Sunday 13 January
Book: Clive King; Dramatised and Produced by: Peter Tabern
Adaptation of Clive King’s story of a young boy called Barney who discovers a caveman living in a quarry near his grandparents’ home.
With:- GEOFFREY PALMER as Robert (Grandad) / PHYLLIDA LAW as Marjorie (Grandma) /
THOMAS SANGSTER as Barney / ROBERT TANNION as Stig
PERDITA WEEKS as Lou (sister) / SASKIA WICKHAM as Caroline (Mother)
STINGRAY
UK / ATV-Centruy 21/39x30m-e /
1964-65
Creator/Producer: Gerry Anderson
/ Music: Barry Gray / Special Effects: Derek Meddings
Supermarionation series.
Century 21st action under the sea with the crew of the Stingray who were part of
an ocean police force keeping evil out of the sea.
Voices:- DON MASON as Troy
Tempest / ROBERT EASTON as Phones/Agent 20 / LOIS MAXWELL as Atlanta / RAY
BARRETT as Cmdr Shore/Titan
STONE COLD
UK / BBC2 'Scene' / 3x30m-e / 1996
Writer: Mike Cullen / Novel:
Robert Swindell / Director: Stephen Whitaker
Drama serial. Problems of a young homeless boy in London.
With:- PAUL GIBSON as Link /
JAMES GADDAS as Vince /
ELIZABETH RIDER as Lesley /
PETER HOWITT as Shelter /
CAMILLA POWER as Girl
STOOKIE
UK / ScottishTV / 6x30m-e / 1985
Writer: Allan Prior
Drama serial. Adventures of a group of teens on the Clyde in
Glasgow.
THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS:
See The Treasure Seekers
THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER
UK / BBC1 / 52x10m / 2002-2004
Writer: Elly Brewer; Based on book by: Jacqueline Wilson
Comedy drama about a girl who lives in a children’s home. A feature
length edition called Tracy
Beaker's The Movie of Me appeared in 2004.
With DANI HARMER as Tracy Beaker
THE
STORYTELLER
UK-USA / Channel 4-TVS-JIm Henson
/ 9x30m-e / 1987
Writer: Anthony Minghella /
Costume: Ann Hollowood, Polly Smith / Music: Rachel Portman / Producer: Duncan
Kenworthy / Executive Producer: Jim Henson
An anthology series of folk and
fairy tales, a mixture of muppets, live action and animation as told by the
storyteller and his dog.
With:- JOHN HURT as the
Storyteller / BRIAN HENSON as Voice of the Dog
THE
STRANGE AFFAIR OF ADELAIDE HARRIS
UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1978
Novel: Leon Garfield / Producer:
Anna Home / Director: Paul Stone
Period drama serial. In Victorian
times a pair of teenagers get involved in intrigue when they discover a baby
abandoned on a hillside.
With:- MATTHEW BEAMISH as Bostock
/ JIM HARRIS as Harris
THE
STRANGER
Australia / ABC / 12x30m-e /
1964-65 black and white
Scifi drama serials. A pair of
serials, in the first three teenagers Bernie and Jean Walsh and Peter Cannon
help an alien stranger who is seeking a new home for his people from the planet
Soshuniss. In the second serial the kids have to seek the help of the Aussie PM
when Peter is kidnapped by the alien and taken to their planet.
With:- JOHN FRASER as Mr Walsh /
JESSICA NOAD as Mrs Walsh / BILL LEVIS as Bernard Walsh / JANICE DINNEN as Jean
Walsh / MICHAEL THOMAS as Peter Cannon / RON HADDRICK as Adam 'The Stranger'
Suisse / REGINALD LIVERMORE as Varossa / OWEN WEINGOTT as Professor
Mayer
STRANGER FROM SPACE
UK / BBC / 17x5m-e / 1952
black and white
Writers: Hazel Adair, Ronald Marriott
Cliffhanger style scifi drama series
shown as a segment of the series Whirlygig. The adventures of a Martian boy who crash
lands on Earth.
With:- BRIAN
SMITH as Ian Spencer / MICHAEL
NEWELL as Bilaphordorous / JOHN
NEWELL as John Armitage / BETTY
WOOLFE as Mrs Spencer /
VALENTINE DYALL as Gorgol
SUNNY'S EARS
UK / ITV / 4x25m-e / 1997
Drama serial. Young deaf girl Sunny adopts an abandoned
dog who becomes her ears.
With:- PASCALE BLACKBURN as Sunny
/ VICTORIA
WILLIAMS as Bev Stephens / CHRISTOPHER WALKER as Fred Stephens
SUPERCAR
UK / ATV-AP / 39x30m-e / 1961
Creator/Producer: Gerry Anderson
/ Music: Barry Gray
Supermarionation series. Exploits
of the flying and submersible supercar and its crew.
Voices:- GRAYDON GOULD as Mike
Mercury / GEORGE MURCELL as Professor Popkiss(1) / CYRIL SHAPS as
Professor Popkiss( 2) / SYLVIA ANDERSON as Jimmy / DAVID GRAHAM as Dr Beeker
SUPERFRIENDS
USA / Warner-Filmation / 26x45m-e
/ 1973-74
Animated action adventure series.
The exploits of a group of superheroes - Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman &
Robin and Aquaman.
SUPERGRAN
UK / Tyne Tees / 26x25m-e 1x60m-e
/ 1985-87 2 seasons + 1 special
Writer: Jenny McDade / Music:
Billy Connolly, Phil Gutter / Books: Forrest Wilson / Producers: Keith Richardson, Graham
C. Williams
Fantasy comedy series.
After being struck by a magic ray elderly Granny
Smith becomes Supergran, fighter of evil, especially the one known as Scunner Campbell.
With:- GUDRUN URE as Supergran / IAIN
CUTHBERTSON as Scunner Campbell / BILL
SHINE as Inventor Black /
TERRY JOYCE as PC Leekie / ROBERT
AUSTIN as Inspector Higgins
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS FOREVER!
UK / BBC / 4x25m-e / 1984
Writer: Michael Robson /
Novels:
Arthur Ransome / Producer: Andrew Morgan; Script Editor: Mervyn Haisman
Period drama serial. A group of children have adventures on the
river in the 1930's. Based on the books Swallows and Amazons and Coot Club.
With:- HENRY DIMBLEBY as Tom Dudgeon / COLIN BAKER / ANDREW BURT as Mr Farland / JOHN WOODVINE as PC Tedder
/ ROSEMARY LEACH as Mrs Barrable
SWAT KATS
USA / Fox / x20m-e / 2001
Animated action adventure
series about a pair of feline junkyard mechanics called Chance Furlong and
Jakew Clawson, these pair hide a secret, they are in reality a pair of
superheroes called Razor and T-Bone, helping keep MegaKat City free from
crime.
SWEET
VALLEY HIGH
USA / Saban-Teen Dream / x30m-e /
1994-99
Creators: Josh Goldstein,
Jonathon Prince / Books: Francine Pascal / Executive Producers: Haim Saban,
Lance H. Robbins, Francine Pascal
Teen comedy drama series. Stories
of a pair of teenage twin girls at High School in California. One is a goody
goody the other not so.
With:- BRITTANY DANIEL as Jessica
Wakefield / CYNTHIA DANIEL as Elizabeth Wakefield / AMARILIS as Patty Gilbert /
RYAN JAMES BITTLE as Todd Wilkins(1) / JEREMY GARRETT as Todd Wilkins (2) /
BROCK BURNETT as Bruce Patman / AMY DANLES as Enid Rollins / BRIDGET FLANERY as
Lila Fowler / MICHAEL PERL as Winston Egbert / HARLEY RODRIGUEZ as Manny Lopez
THE SWISH OF THE CURTAIN
UK / BBC1-ABC / 4x30 minute
episodes / 1980 (13 April – 4 May)
Writer: Julia Jones / Script
Editor: Alistair Bell / Novel: Pamela Brown (who was only 14 when she
wrote the story!) / Music: Paul Reade / Producer: Barry Letts / Designer:
Martin Collins / Director: Joan Craft
Children’s period drama serial.
Pre world war II, a group of children set up their own theatre company.
Not long after the cast appeared on Blue Peter Sarah Greene (who pretty
much headlines here) found herself as a presenter on the thrice weekly
magazine show.
SARAH GREENE as Sandra Fayne /
AMANDA KIRBY as Lynette Darwin / DOMINIC SAVAGE as Jeremy Darwin / SALLY
JANE JACKSON as Viccy Halford / SHIRLEY DIXON as Mrs Darwin / ROBERT
AUSTIN as Mr Darwin / MONA BRUCE as Mrs Potter-Smith / JANE BRIERS as Mrs
Fayne / JAYNE STEVENS as Maddy Fayne / JAMIE COWELL-PARKER as Nigel
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