Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars

Description: Children's Program / A trio of British boys form the Crane Grove Gang, named after the street on which they live. They ... more

Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars ... enjoy playing practical jokes in the name of plan "Agent Z". In this series they fool a boorish new neighbor into believing an alien penguin has arrived in his own garden.

Newest Review: ... series and then reading the book on holiday through oversized square glasses when I was supposed to be running around on a beach, scoffed at the main character’s lack of cool. Agent Z’s agenda in this series will necessarily take a bit of explaining, considering its rather confusing, sci-fi title. Apart from Ben’s elaborate, recurring dream sequences that the viewers are invited to intrude ... more

... upon over the course of the series, the story is grounded in reality, at least according to Haddon’s view of how the world works. The target of this latest prank is Dennis Sidebottom, a wealthy lottery winner who moves in next-door to Ben’s family and ...more

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Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars: The Chances of Penguins Coming From Mars Are Ten Billion to ... (1135 words)
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In the mid-nineties, Children’s BBC began negotiating a serialised dramatisation of popular children’s author Mark Haddon’s ‘Agent Z’ books, culminating in the one-off, six-part adaptation of the third, ‘Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars,’ in the first months of 1996. I enjoyed it at the time, but drifting back through the mists of time, and struggling to veer around the rose-tinted areas of my unreliable brain, I now realise it was a fairly average storyline with some really unlikeable characters and a plot that’s ludicrous and pointless even by CBBC drama standards. The story centres on the eponymous Agent Z, a mysterious organisation operating in the Crane ... Read the complete review

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