Comics on TV

[jakob1978]

A Quick search showed up this website page...apparantly Gibson's Custom shop have designed a custom guitar (of the same type used by Clapton on that album) with the Beano cover strip on it...it was the May 7th 1966 issue

http://www.themusiczoo.com/blog/2011/gi ... -les-paul/

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

cool geetar!

[Niblet]

A bit but hello everybody, I'm a newbie to the forum! Quite a few people I recgonize from The Beano, The Dandy, and the like. Anyhow, going back on-topic, there was a programme you might or might not watched in the 1990's called Zzzap!, made for ITV by Meridian and The Media Merchants (who also did Art Attack). Zzzap! was a comic book that was brought to life (literally), and ran for 8 years from 1993 to 2001. Here's the opening titles of the first series from the first episode, it features many iconic comics of the time including Rainbow, Monster in my Pocket, Playdays, The Beano, Buster, and Stingray. It's from 0:09 to 0:50: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtbWuYEp ... ure=fvwrel

Hi Nuttyman, welcome to the forum. Good clip. Your post brought to mind a similar offering from the BBC, namely The Krankies' Elektronik Komik. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_AKBfzwiVU At least, I presume it was similar to Zzzap!, I never watched either show but I was aware of the Elektronic Komik since the title made reference to comics.

I had a quick look at the Krankies clip, but unlike the Zzzap! one, there are no real comics on display. However, Wee Jimmy is of course wearing his/her Dennis The Menace Fan Club badge. The clip's a bit odd as the sound and video are out of sync.

[felneymike]

Ah I remember Zzap! in 1993 it seemed "normal" to me, being the target audience, but by 2001 seemed a bit old hat, as comic readership had declined enormously even from the levels of the 80's.

Zzap was really like a British style comic bought to TV. It had lots of different segments that featured in every show. I can only remember two "stories", which were both art related. One was "The Handymen" and showed how to make something. The other was similar to the old Rolf Harris art shows where he'd make some big picture using, say, salt on a giant black floor viewed from above. Like Rolf Harris Zzap would get the viewers to guess what the picture was going to be at various points.

Edit: *Watches clip* haha, it looks like Zzap came in a bag with a giant bulky free gift attached, they were ahead of their time!

[Digifiend]

Re: Zzzap!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZZap!

The second art related feature was Smart Arty - who was in fact Neil Buchanan, the Art Attack presenter!

There was a character called Tricky Dicky in series 1... I guess DC Thomson weren't happy about that, because he was replaced by Cuthbert Lilly later on.

Series 8 added Minnie the Mini Magician... who was played by Sophie Aldred, Ace from Doctor Who.

It ran for 10 seasons over nine years.

[stevezodiac]

In the late 60s I used to enjoy watching My World and Welcome To It. An American sitcom featuring William Windom as the cartoonist and humorist James Thurber although his character name in the series was different John Monroe I think. There is one poor quality episode on youtube. Lots of animation featured.

[Nuttyman]

@ Digifiend Cuthbert Lilly and Tricky Dicky were played by the same person, Richard Waites (who was also known as Hamilton Dent in No. 73). They were both in Series 1, and Tricky later got replaced by Daisy Dare. Cuthbert stayed in the programme for all 10 series. The programme ran for 8 years, over 131 (roughly) episodes.

@ felneymike The artist with the big pictures as Digifiend pointed out, is Smart Arty, played by the CITV legend of the day, Neil Buchanan. He played him till 1998.

@ Niblet The Krankies wasn't my era! The only thing I know about them that they were husband and wife in real life!

[Digifiend]

January 1993 to September 2001... like I said, that's nine years. Thanks for the correction on Cuthbert Lilly, the layout of the cast table on Wikipedia confused me (I assumed "All" in the series column meant the just the actor, rather than Cuthbert).

[Nuttyman]

Thats okay anyhow, here are more clips of Zzzap and other kids shows of the 1990's on my YouTube channel if anybody's interested: www.youtube.com/changethewords2

[alanultron5]

I remember "My World and Welcome To It" I'm sure one of the ladies who played `Catwoman` in the Batman series played his wife-but I might have got that wrong.

I do wish I had facilities to post the scene where Billy Liar (Jeff Rawle) is reading a `Sparky` while at work, but sadly no can do-sorry! It was in an episode in the second (1974) season.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

I definately saw a UK b/w film from the 60s in which Albert Finney read a SPARKY in loving close-up, with old-style logo, naturally.

[stevezodiac]

Joan Hodgkiss palyed William Windom's wife and, no, she would not have looked half as good as Julie Newmar in a Catwoman costume and, fortunately, wasn't give the chance.

Been recording the Batgirl season od Batman on ITV4 and the scripts are dire. This week we had the Joker challenging Batman to a surfing contest - they went into the changing rooms and came out still in their costumes but wearing "Baggies" over them. But its still amusing to hear Adam West exclaim "Great Scott!" Vincent Price is back in it on Monday playing Egghead, a villain who, I believe, never appeared in the comic version?

[philcom55]

I can't ever remember seeing Egghead in the US comics but he did appear in a British book from World Distributors.

- Phil R.

[steven]

Public Information Film from 1980 on children using matches. Unknown to him, he lays the lit match onto a Beano comic and burns it.

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediapl ... 0&type=mp4

[alanultron5]

Neither `Egghead` or Victor Bueno's superb`King Tut` were in Batman comics when the series was transmitted! The TV series did invent a few `non-comics` Foes! I think Roddy McDowalls "Bookworm" Van Johnsons "Minstrel" and Art Carneys "Archer" were `Non comic` foes too!

A couple of Batman foes would have been impossible to put into a 1960s TV series , such as "The Outsider" Todays SFX would cope though!

Incidently, in the US `Marvel` "Avengers" comics-a villian called `Egghead` did appear (1969 I think!) but he didn't really much resemble the Batman TV series Egghead!