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 Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV, The - Richard Lewis
Description: ISBN 0749005297 / Author: Richard Lewis / Genre: Film / Television / Do you lie awake at night, wondering whether the Snork Maiden was ... more  Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV, The - Richard Lewis ... having an affair with Moominpappa? Have you ever drunk too much, and started an argument about Button Moon? Do you find yourself drifting off during boring business meetings, trying to remember the names of the flumps? If so, this book is for you.Newest Review: ... pointing out lest you get the wrong impression! So, what qualifies a children's TV programme as "cult", in ... more ... order that it might feature in this book? Lewis addresses this in the prologue. "Almost as soon as I began to research this book, it became clear that there were as many cult followings as there were TV shows. This made it a much bigger project than was first envisaged". I can well believe it. In the end Lewis admits that a line had to be drawn, and that line would no doubt be an arbitrary one. It starts around 1960 and ends roughly around 198 ...more |
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Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV, The - Richard Lewis: The Truth About Captain Pugwash (1024 words)
by delawney - written on 02/01/03 (Very useful, 3001 readings)
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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 ...
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by pje - written on 12/04/02 (Very useful, 490 readings)
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"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 ...
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