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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Kizzy

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    Adapted from (Margaret) Rumer Godden’s 1972 novel The Diddakoi, the only major change apart from a linear re-ordering of events was regarding the title.

    In the TV serial, little Kizzy Lovell (Vanessa Furst) is not diddakoi, (a half-gypsy) but a full Romany. This simplification aside, the serial remains the story of orphaned traveller Kizzy and her trials and tribulations as she fights to be accepted by village gorgios (the gypsy word for those who live ‘in brick’).

    As Kizzy’s young teacher Miss Blount (Meg Ritchie) says: “Children can be so cruel,” and at its core, this is a story of bullying and intolerance.

    In the course of events, Kizzy’s guardian Gran dies and her gypsy caravan home is burnt down (in accordance with gypsy custom).

    Kizzy then catches pneumonia, is threatened with being put into care, bullied and physically attacked and sees her beloved horse, Joe, die of old age.

    Kizzy is no shrinking violet victim however but an ambivalent heroine, who gives as good as she gets. Given to tantrums, she pouts and sulks her way through six episodes.

    Hot-tempered, almost feral at times, she is quick to lash out or even scratch and bite. She spits during a juvenile court appearance (viewers’ parents complained about the poor example being set).

    Kizzy’s bad behaviour brought some grit to what is overall a sweet story but with some tough moments. A frightening sequence in which Kizzy is attacked by a posse of bullying girls and sickeningly cracks her head open on a brick wall was edited for maximum impact and is well remembered by many who saw it.

    Kizzy‘s themes include comments on the care system, tradition versus modernity, middle-class snobbery and above all tolerance for – and indeed celebration of – difference and cultural diversity.

    The sheer misery Kizzy undergoes demands a happy ending – sentimental and unlikely it may be but who would begrudge the battling little Kizzy a little happiness?

    kizzyKizzy Lovell 
    Vanessa Furst
    Olivia Brooke
    Anne Ridler
    Prue Cuthbert
    Melissa Docker
    Admiral Twiss
    John Welsh
    Peters
    Patrick McAlinney
    Elizabeth Oliver
    Lisa Welsford
    Clem Oliver
    Toby Bridge
    Mary Jo
    Isobel Gordon
    Mrs Cuthbert
    Angela Browne
    Mildred Blount
    Meg Ritchie
    Nat 
    Paddy Ward
    Lumas Doe
    Ben Howard
    Mr Blount
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    The Wagon | What Shall We Do with Kizzy? | She Can’t Stay There! | Into Care | No Escape | The Bonfire

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