Here Come the Double Deckers!
| Here Come the Double Deckers! | |
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| Created by |
Harry Booth Roy Simpson Glyn Jones |
| Starring |
Michael Audreson Gillian Bailey Bruce Clark Peter Firth Brinsley Forde Melvyn Hayes Debbie Russ Douglas Simmonds |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
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| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
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| Original network |
ABC BBC One |
| Original release |
First aired: 12 September 1970 (US) 1 January 1971 (UK) – Last aired: 3 September 1972 (US) 30 April 1971 (UK) |
Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970–71, revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused junk yard.
A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and the television division of 20th Century Fox, it was a children's adventure sitcom. The shows (without adverts) are about 22 minutes in length.
Each week saw the gang in a separate adventure including episodes based around a runaway homemade hovercraft, a chocolate factory and invading 'Martians' with guns that shoot out chocolate candy, a disastrous camping holiday, collecting tin foil for a guide dog, becoming pop moguls with their protégé 'The Cool Cavalier' and a haunted stately home.
Some of the cast were unknown, though Melvyn Hayes was an established adult actor, Gillian Bailey was fairly experienced for a child actor and both Brinsley Forde and Michael Audreson had appeared in The Magnificent Six and a Half, a series of Children's Film Foundation films on which the Double Deckers were based. Melvyn Hayes also wrote the episode "Man's Best Friend", co-wrote the episode "Get a Movie On!", co-wrote the series' theme song, and acted as a dialogue coach for the series. Bailey is now head of the drama department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Peter Firth has gone on to a prominent acting career, appearing in Equus, The Hunt for Red October, Tess, Pearl Harbor and Spooks (MI-5). Co-star Brinsley Forde later became the lead singer in Aswad.
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