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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    James and the Giant Peach

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    1 x 45 minute episode

    James Henry Trotter (Simon Bell) is a desperately unhappy orphan left in the care of his two cruel aunts, Spiker (Anna Quayle) and Sponge (Ann Beach), who treat him like a slave.

    One day he encounters a mysterious old man at the bottom of the garden (Arthur Hewlett) who hands James a bag containing hundreds of magic organisms. James is told to be wary and never let the bag drop from his hand or someone else will benefit from their powers.

    In his excitement, James drops the bag at the base of an old peach tree and, very shortly, the tree is sporting a plump peach on its top branch.

    The peach grows in size until it is far bigger than a person and, when James finds a hole in the side of the huge fruit, he crawls inside. There he finds a variety of oversized insects and worms, all recipients of the magic power.

    Severing the peach from the tree, they set out on an amazing adventure by sea and in the air, coming to rest atop the Empire State Building in New York.

    This fascinating play didn’t take itself particularly seriously and seemed more of an offering for the panto season (it aired on 28 December 1976).

    Produced on a minimal budget, it was taped entirely in the studio and utilised simple, two-dimensional storybook backdrops akin to those seen on Rainbow or Play School.

    James Henry Trotter
    Simon Bell
    Aunt Spiker
    Anna Quayle
    Aunt Sponge
    Ann Beach
    Old man
    Arthur Hewlett
    Interviewer/1st Naval Officer/Security Chief
    Andrew Sachs
    Grasshopper
    Thorley Walters
    Spider
    Pat Coombs
    Ladybird
    Kate Lock
    Centipede
    Bernard Cribbins
    Earthworm
    Hugh Lloyd
    Silkworm/2nd Naval Officer
    Christopher Owen
    Glow-Worm/American Woman
    Jo Kendall

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