Simon and the Witch
SIMON AND THE WITCH
Made by: ?
Shown on: BBC
Years shown: 1987-88
Based on books by Margaret Stuart Barry, this children’s comedy starred Hugh Pollard as Simon, a boy who befriends Elizabeth Spriggs’ fantastically mischievous witch, who actually didn’t do much harm at all. Simon was friends with spiteful schoolgirl Sally (future Eastenders star, Nicola Stapleton) and Cuthbert (Ilan Ostlove), who was rather feeble and lived with his frightfully posh aunt, Lady Fox-Custard (pronounced ‘Folks-Custaard’), played by Joan Simms. Fox-Custard had her own butler, Hopkins, but between them they were unable to thwart the witch and her pranks - in fact, Simon was the sensible one, and had to keep this mad granny-figure in check. Simon and the Witchfun! was twenty five minutes of high-quality after-school entertainment, and it also had a great title sequence, where Simon and the witch held up cardboard placards with the cast and crew’s names on them, and it just looked so much
SQUARE EYES RATING: 5/10
(Thanks to www.tvacres.com for the borrowed pic)
posted by Holly @ 1:07 PM
1 Comments:
You like Nostalgia too? Good post on Simon and the Witch. I want to proposition UKTV to make a UKTV Gold Kids channel. With the recent furore over the quality of kids TV, it might be time to re-show some of the older classics. I already have a huge list of things I'd like to see myself.
Some pure cheese, some gold. The acting in Simon and the Witch, even from the young Hugh Pollard was fabulous! Shame he didn't go on to do anything else.
Cya
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