Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster

Description: Channel: BBC / Genre: Comedy / Actors: Paul Jones, Brian Capron, Fenella Fielding, David Gant, Tricia George / Followed ... more

Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster ... by 'Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon' (1992)

Newest Review: ... something to relate to, even if it does suggest that their country hasn’t evolved much beyond the eighteenth century in terms of architecture and morals. It’s still obviously better than anything churned out for kids today (and by extension, considerably worse than anything from ten years earlier according to people older than me – and so it goes on), but ‘Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness ... more

... Monster’ was fairly inconsequential in comparison to contemporary shows such as ‘The Tomorrow People’ and ‘Watt on Earth.’ (It was better than the long-running ‘Mike and Angelo’ though, which was rubbish)....more

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Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster: Bond's Tree-Hugging Cousin (982 words)
by - written on 04/10/07 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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‘Uncle Jack’ was an environmentally-themed drama series for children that ran for four series on Children’s BBC in the early 1990s. All four series were written by Jim Eldridge and starred former musician Paul Jones in the title role as Jack Green, a chirpy middle-aged bloke in a woolly jumper with a concern for the environment and some important ties to the science and intelligence industries. Despite the increasingly ludicrous plots, Jack’s nemesis invariably winds up being The Vixen, played by Fenella Fielding of (much earlier) ‘Carry On’ fame, and Jack is able to enlist the help of bumbling MI5 agents in uncovering and hopefully dismantling the fiendish ... Read the complete review

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