Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV, The - Richard Lewis

It must say something about you when your friend buys you "The Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV" for Christmas. I'm not sure what it says about you, but I'm sure it must say something. So this was my experience - not this Christmas just gone, but the Christmas before. And I was absolutely delighted! Perhaps now I would be able to once and for all expel the myth about Master Bates and Seaman Staines on "Captain Pugwash", maybe I'd find out what Mr Benn actually did for a living, and who the hell was Bod anyway? In fact, this book turns out to be a real education, both for the children's TV aficionado and ...  Read the complete review

"Someone had to set it all straight. Finally I agreed to regress when I figured it might be a way to blame some of my failings on Cheggers, I urge you to do the same. " - So says Richard Lewis in the prologue to his Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV. (That's children's TV with cult status, and not TV for the children of cults, presumably.) This is a lovely, funny little book. It has a picture of that famous Test Card on the cover (the one with the little girl playing noughts and crosses against a toy clown, from the days when toy clowns looked innocent, rather than like something out of a horror movie.) The cover also combines ...  Read the complete review