Thames Television gave ventriloquist Dawson Chance his own 15-minute TV show in 1973. Dawson’s Funny Old Farm aired on ITV every Friday around lunchtime for nine weeks.
The action took place on a farm where farmer Dawson couldn’t pay the rent. The villains of the series were Farmer Grouse and Rasputin the Rat, who did all kinds of evil things to collect the rent money, but Dawson’s animal friends helped him out with hilarious results.
Puppet characters included McDonald the donkey, Honky Tonk the pig, Scruffy the tortoise, Fred Bull, Quack Quack and Cranky (a talking car).
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