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Compiled by acclaimed television scriptwriter and novelist Dean Wilkinson, The Classic Children's Television Quiz Book is packed with fascinating facts about the shows you loved as a child as well as those programmes currently capturing the imagination of today's young audiences. From timeless classics like Thunderbirds, Blue Peter and Dr Who to the thoroughly up-to-date Sponge Bob, the 1,000 questions in this book will not only test your memory of the characters you grew up with but your family's knowledge of their current favourites. With a fitting foreword by popular family TV presenters Ant and Dec this book is sure to prove a hit with television lovers of all ages and, in particular, those members of the older generation who have remained young at heart.

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	18 juillet 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908548894
Langue	English

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THE CLASSIC CHILDREN’S TV QUIZ BOOK

Compiled by Dean Wilkinson

Foreword by
Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly

Publisher Information

First published in 2008 by Apex Publishing Ltd
PO Box 7086, Clacton o n Sea, Essex, CO15 5WN, England
www.apexpublishing.co.uk

Digital Edition converted and published in 2011 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com

Copyright © 2008 by Dean Wilkinson
The author has asserted his moral rights

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or t ransmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder.

Production Manager: Chris Cowlin

Cover Design: Siobhan Smith

Dedication

In memory of Mark Speight 1965 - 2008, whom Timmy and I had the enormous pleasure of wor king with on Timmy Towers.

A great talent, a great bloke and a great loss to children’s television.
www.speightoftheart.org

Introduction
By Dean Wilkinson

Working largely in children’s telly since 1990, I’ve clocked up a few shows myself and modesty prevents me from including any of them in this tome - one would have thought! You’ll find SMTV Live and Stupid in here somewhere. I’m really proud of these shows, especially Stupid, and when I snuff it I want there to be a headline in my local paper stating ‘STUPID MAN DIES’.
The emphasis of this quiz book seems to be the children’s telly of the seventies and eighties. This is because I was a kid myself at that time spending hours upon hours watching the haunted fish tank trying to escape from the reality of a grim home life. And wow, was I spoilt for choice - so many classics! and I’ve enjoyed all of those shows again whilst researching this book, either by hiring them from Amazon, bidding for the last tatty VHS versions on Ebay, or seeking out clips on You Tube.
The American wit Lily Tomlin once said: ‘If you read a lot of books you are considered well read, but if you watch a lot of TV you are not considered well viewed.’
Depends on the telly, Lily. I’d much rather spend an evening in front of a DVD copy of Children of the Stones or Dangermouse or Maid Marian and her Merry Men than doing anything else. I spent half my childhood watching telly, I wasted the rest, so I’m spending my adult life catching up.
I’ve trawled the Internet, scoured books on TV history and bugged friends and colleagues in the biz for their memories, to make this the ultimate classic children’s telly quiz book. I hope I’ve succeeded.
Even if you don’t remember the show, you can get a lot out of the DID YOU KNOW? sections, or glean amazing nuggets of information about kids’ telly by cheating and looking at the ANSWERS in the back. Impress your friends with some impromptu facts about Willo the Wisp, or The Double Deckers.
I hope you’ll come to realise, like I did when compiling this book, that as a kid I was incredibly lucky to have such a wide and varied choice of viewing.
But, now I’m a dad I find it heartbreaking that the children’s telly my daughters have to choose from is - colossal because of the myriad cable channels on offer, but - incredibly limited in terms of quality. There’s some really awful acquired American kids’ telly around. Really really awful!
Not all of it though! I’ve included the fairly modern Spongebob in this book because it’s a great example of superbly crafted telly for kids, AND it follows the golden rule, kids’ telly should entertain adults too. And the American Eerie Indiana was one of the best shows of the 1990s.
I’m a true Brit and we have got to get British children’s telly back into gear. Just look at the multitude of superbly made, (sometimes without much of a budget), imaginative and downright awe inspiring shows mentioned in this book. Catweazle, Worzel Gummidge, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Thunderbirds, The Ghosts of Motley Hall - gosh the list was so huge I simply could not cram in every show I wanted to! We have to get back those glorious must-see-TV days!
If the British television executives stopped wasting cash on banal rubbish and put the resources into good children’s telly, they could double, even treble their viewing figures! And our youth might grow up with a sense of magical wonder instead of the feelings of desperation, bitchiness and avarice that modern telly bestows upon them. Look at any of today’s pointless celebrities and their God awful vehicles and just think about what they’re saying to our young people. The messages they’re sending out are downright dangerous! Bring back innocence, bring back imagination, bring back quality storytelling. Bring back British children’s TV! Show your support by joining the campaign Save Kids’ TV: www.savekidstv.org.uk

Best wishes
Dean Wilkinson

Foreword by Ant McPartlin

Be warned, be very warned: Dean’s Classic Children’s TV Quiz Book is going to cause you a whole load of brain-aching, memory- scraping, hair-pulling moments. You may very well find yourself angrily pacing the house for hours as the answer to a question like - which actor played Fred Mumford in the first series of Rentaghost - is on the tip of your tongue! However, you may, like me, be pushed over the edge when some annoying git rings you up and gives you the answer before it comes to you! What were the chances of that?!
And even if you don’t recall some of the many many programmes mentioned in the book, there’s still a boat load of facts and figures about the children’s telly of days gone by that’ll keep riveted for hours upon end. This is nostalgia at it’s best, so get comfortably seated on your Raleigh Chopper, open a can of Top Deck, a packet of Spangles, and dip into The Children’s TV Quiz Book and discover just how misspent your youth was.

Ant McPartlin

Foreword by Dec Donnelly

Cheers, Dean, The Classic Children’s TV Quiz Book has opened up a new social chapter of my life. I can now steer any conversation around to children’s TV and rattle off fascinating fact after fact I’ve gleaned from this tome of tots, toddlers and teenage telly testimony, impressing anyone within earshot.
For example, I rang Ant and said, ‘Morning Anthony, not to be confused with the late Anthony Jackson who played Fred Mumford in the first series of Rentaghost in 1976.’
You see what I did, I flawlessly steered the conversation around to a subject I was knowledgeable in after having read the Rentaghost section of The Children’s TV Quiz Book. I not only impressed my friend, I also imparted my learning to him. I put the icing on the cake when I sang the entire theme tune to Rentaghost to Ant and by the end of it he’d hung up - presumably overwhelmed with euphoric nostalgia for his youth. Indeed, the man Ant is now feverishly banging on my front door with a cricket bat in his hand. Bless, he wants to play in the park like the youthful carefree young scallywags we once were. Enjoy the book, I’m off to play out!

Dec Donnelly

Questions
A Plethora O’Puppets

Children’s telly has given us so many puppets over the years and they are a merchandising man’s dream. Pinky and Perky for example (they never married did they!) Puppets are immortal, but their human animators and sidekicks are not and many tend to move on to more ‘grown-up’ telly before they get typecast.

Can you match the anthropomorphic characters with their one time, on screen human collaborators?
1.Nookie Bear
2.Gordon the Gopher
3.Lord Charles
4.Sooty
5.Orville the Duck
6.Lambchop
7.Posh Paws
8.Zig and Zag
9.Ed the Duck
10.Basil Brush

Humans: Chris Evans, Andi Peters, Noel Edmonds, Roy North, Roger De Courcey, Ray Alan, Shari Lewis, Mathew Corbett, Phillip Schofield, Keith Harris

DID YOU KNOW?
Orville The Duck was named after Orville Wright who also ‘wished he could fly’. Mr Wright eventually did.

AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Neil Waters stole my Gordon The Gopher puppet from me and tried to throw up in it because I’d been annoying him with it. That’s him named and shamed (we were both 23 at the time by the way).

Rentaghost

If you wanted to hire a ghost in the 70s and 80s, you rang Rent-A-Ghost, an agency of spooks, run by spooks. Fast paced schoolboy wit and some of the greatest character actors - sadly many of them really are ghosts now. Michael Stainforth (1942 - 1987) was the glue that held the show together.

11.Name the mischievous poltergeist jester - Edward Tudorpole or Timothy Claypole?
12.Which actress played Hazel The McWitch - Molly Weir or Phyllida Law?
13.Anthony Jackson played the ghost who started the agency, but was the character’s name Peter Geist or Fred Mumford?
14.Name the long suffering neighbours of the Rentaghost crew - the Perkins, Jenkins or Larkins?
15.What was the troublesome pantomime horse called - Dobbin, Trigger or Winnie?
16.Can you remember the first line of the theme song? (Hint: it mentions a mansion house.)
17.In which year did the show begin - 1970, 1973, 1976 or 1979?
18.What year did the show end - 1984, 1986, 1989 or 1993?