Wizbit

Wizbit
Created by	Barry Murray Paul Daniels
Starring	Paul Daniels Debbie McGee
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	27
Production
Running time	12 x 25mins, 15 x 10mins
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	1986 – 1988

Wizbit is a 1980s BBC children's television show about an alien magician, Wizbit. It starred conjuror Paul Daniels and wife Debbie McGee.

The series is set in Puzzleopolis, a town inhabited by walking, talking sponge-balls, dice, magic wands, playing cards and rabbits, where the protagonists must solve puzzles. Wizbit's year-and-a-day mission is to find out all about planet Earth.

The show is partly educational, with the (often lateral thinking) puzzles Wizbit is set often being presented to the audience at home, with the solutions being revealed towards the end of the episode. Wizbit's magic word was "Ostagazuzulum", and he came from the planet WOW, an acronym for "World Of Wizards".

The show was created by Barry Murray, who had formerly been Mungo Jerry's record producer, with assistance from Daniels. Its theme tune is based on a song by Lead Belly, named "Ha-Ha This A Way", sung by Daniels. All rights to characters and designs were retained by Daniels, and the music rights by Murray.

A revival of the series was announced in 2009 with a movie set for Summer 2010, but they were both cancelled.

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