The Woodentops is a children's television series first shown on BBC Television in 1955. Created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird, it featured on the...
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up woodentop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woodentop may refer to: The Woodentops (TV series), a 1950s BBC children's series The Woodentops, a British...
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policemen who traditionally wear helmets; the nickname is itself an allusion to the Children's TV series The Woodentops. The episode documents PC Jim Carver's...
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List of television programs: U–V–W (category Lists of television series)
Wonder Showzen The Wonderful World of Disney The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Wonder Woman The Wonder Years The Woodentops (UK) The Woodlanders Work...
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List of British television programmes (redirect from British TV series)
(2018) – mini series The Wombles – children's Wonders of the Monsoon – nature documentary The Woodentops – children's Woof! – children's The Word – post-pub...
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one-off drama, Woodentop, broadcast on 16 August 1983. ITV were so impressed with the drama that a full series was commissioned. The title originates...
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Andy Pandy (category 1950 British television series debuts)
narrated by Maria Bird who also narrated the black & white 1950s original broadcasts of Flower Pot Men, The Woodentops and Bizzy Lizzie.[citation needed] Initially...
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Quest (1954–1963) The Woodentops (1955–1958) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960) Picture Book (1955–1965) Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1955–1967...
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magic flower. The 'Bizzy Lizzy' inserts for Picture Book were narrated by Maria Bird, who also narrated Andy Pandy, The Woodentops and The Flowerpot Men...
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Maria Bird (category Educational broadcasting in the United Kingdom)
whom she set up Westerham Arts, the production company commissioned by the BBC to produce TV pieces including The Woodentops (1955), Flower Pot Men (1952)...
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Gary Olsen (category Actors from the City of Westminster)
12 episodes of The Bill between 1984 and 1986 (as well as the 1983 pilot episode, Woodentop). Olsen also starred in the 1986 TV series Prospects alongside...
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Jenny (given name) (section People with the given name)
(1998) Jenny Woodentop, a character from the 1950s children TV series The Woodentops First Mate Jenny, character in the 1980s comic series Bucky O'Hare...
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"Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Galloway appeared in the pilot episode, "Woodentop", aired on 16 August 1983,...
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Trudie Goodwin (category Actors from the London Borough of Lewisham)
2015. Goodwin had appeared in The Bill since its pilot, "Woodentop", which was part of the Storyboard plays for Thames TV in 1983. However, in September...
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Jim Carver in "Woodentop", which became the pilot episode for The Bill. He was one of four actors in "Woodentop" who returned in the series' first complete...
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Giant (disambiguation) (redirect from The Giants)
album), 1971 The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973 The Giants (album), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, 1974 Giant (The Woodentops album), 1986...
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Ellison. Reg is mentioned but not seen in "Woodentop", so Stewart's first appearance in the series was in the first regular episode, "Funny Ol' Business...
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Watch with Mother (redirect from See-Saw (TV programme))
Bobtail that September. The "classic" cycle of shows was in place by September 1955, with the first showing of The Woodentops. Broadcast at 1:30 pm each...
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List of BBC children's television programmes (redirect from Show Me What You're Made Of (TV series))
Wolverine and the X-Men The Wombles Wonderful World of Weird The Woodentops Woody Woodpecker Woolly and Tig Words and Pictures World of Happy The World of...
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2011 Justice: (TV Mini-Series) as Judge Patrick Coburn 2011 The Shadow Line as Bob Harris 2011 Midsomer Murders: "The Sleeper Under the Hill" as Caradoc...
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(1955) The Woodentops (1955–1956, puppeteer of Spotty Dog) A Rubovian Legend (1955–1956, 1958–1964) Toytown (1956–1958) The Bird of Truth (1956) The Emperor’s...
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Paul Marquess (section TV career)
Beckham on TV. In 2002, Marquess took over as executive producer of The Bill, with a clear brief from network bosses at ITV to shift the series away from...
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company Westerham Arts which was commissioned by the BBC to create The Woodentops, Andy Pandy and the Flower Pot Men. During a January 1967 visit to Knole...
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a nod to the pilot episode Woodentop, which opens with PC Jim Carver telling himself "OK Carver, let's do it!". The final shot is of the exterior of...
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made as backdoor television pilots. "Freezing Debuts On BBC Two". Unreality TV. 2008-02-20. Retrieved 2008-02-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher=...
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Marionette (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
shown under the title Watch With Mother The various programmes included Whirligig, The Woodentops, Bill and Ben, Muffin The Mule, Rubovia a series created...
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Don Messick died in 1997. Most of the contributions are stop motion characters. Some appear on TV screens within the stop motion world "via satellite"...
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January 1985. Whilst Woodentop used a traditional three-wall set built at Thames Television's studios at Teddington, for the series, Sun Hill Police Station...
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Rag, Tag and Bobtail (1953–1965) The Good Old Days (1953–1983) Panorama (1953–present) The Woodentops (1955–1958) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960)...
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her first marriage, but in 1955, she was the voice of Jenny Woodentop in the BBC's Watch With Mother series. She also worked regularly until 1964 as a...
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