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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Billy Webb’s Amazing Story

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    This six-part BBC series – a spin-off from their 1990 series, Alfonso Bonzo – in which a boy recounts a story that is fast-moving and fantastical, was in comic book tradition and played absolutely straight without any knowing and sophisticated smirks.

    The story begins at the end. A schoolboy called Ginger is found straddling the roof, a pushbike parked on the chimney next to him. The unsympathetic reaction to his plight from the children gathered in the playground below is only explained later when we discovered that he was the school bully.

    Once pudding-faced Billy Webb (Scott Riley), the narrator and chief player, got into his stride, the mystifying events were related by Billy in quick succession to a gaping-mouthed local reporter, eager for his big break.

    The headmaster, Mr Hardwood (Tony Melody) was the kind who inspired pity rather than respect and the teacher Mrs Peasgood (Gil Brailey) deserved a medal for services beyond the call of duty.

    The humour was visual, like a cartoon strip transposed to the screen, such as when Billy passed a neighbour pegging out her used tea bags.

    Billy Webb
    Scott Riley
    Mrs Peasgood
    Gil Brailey
    Nigel Creamer
    Raymond Butcher
    Mr Webb
    Brian Hall
    Scott Barnacle
    Rory McNicholl
    Annette Osoba
    Phyllis Osie
    Mrs Webb
    Susan Porrett
    Linda Webb
    Fleur Taylor
    Trevor Trotman
    Mike Walling
    Mrs Frisby
    Bella Emberg
    June Barnacle
    Lisa O’Connell
    Wayne Ratkin
    Graeme Hawley
    Damon Bullwinkel
    Glenn Lee
    Mr Hardwood
    Tony Melody
    Ginger Gahagan
    Damian Williams
    Winston
    Sean Carnegie

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