ALBERT’S PLACE (CBC Kids, Bob Clothier)

Canada / CBC / x15m-e / 1959 (1 July – 23 September / Wednesday 5.00pm)

Writer: Kitty Marcuse / Producer: Len Lauk

Children’s puppet series. Albert (a puppet) tells stories about some of the things found in the attic he lived in. Humans on hand included Bob Clothier, Nonie Stewart and singer John Chappell.

• Hands Across the Sea (BBC, 1938, Nadine March, Nicholas Phipps)

• My Son Reuben (Thames 1975, Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye,)

• The Franchise Affair (BBC 1962, Rosalie Crutchley, Michael Aldridge)

• Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC 1964, Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw)

• A Handful of Thieves (BBC One 1969, Helen Worth, Martin Ratcliffe)

• The Galactic Garden

• The Sentimental Agent (ATV 1963)