This 13-part children’s series from Yorkshire Television starred a loveable black mongrel dog called Benny, who was kept tied up like a prisoner on his cruel master’s barge until two young children, Bella (Olivia Ward) and Jack (Kirk Wild), spotted him and rescued him.
The writer and presenter was Diana Wilmer, who joined Benny at the start of each episode on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, where she set the scene for each story, which was then told in the form of still photographs, comic-strip style, compete with dialogue and thoughts in speech bubbles.
The music was by guitarist Gordon Giltrap.
Episodes were filmed (or rather, photographed) around Harrogate and Skipton in Yorkshire.
The episodes were aired twice a day – at midday and at 4.00 pm, so older children could watch when they came home from school.
The real-life “Benny” was actually a girl called “Zoe”.
Narrator
Diane Wilmer Bella
Olivia Ward Jack
Kirk Wild
Episodes
Benny Comes to the Common | Benny and the Jumble Sale | Benny and the Rainbow | Benny and the Allotment | Benny and the Princess | Benny and the RSPCA | Benny Disappears | Benny and the Fire | Benny and the Builders | Benny on the Beat | Benny and the Joggers | Benny and the Dustbins | Benny to the Rescue
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The writer and presenter was Diana Wilmer, who joined Benny at the start of each episode on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, where she set the scene for each story, which was then told in the form of still photographs, comic-strip style, compete with dialogue and thoughts in speech bubbles.
