Does anyone remember the TV show "The Doubledeckers"?!
Question: Does anyone remember the TV show "The Doubledeckers"!?
I watched this show in the late 60's or early 70's!. It was about a group of kids and I think their clubhouse was a doubledecker bus or in a doubledecker bus garage!. No one I've talked to remembers it!. Was I dreaming!? We only had like 6 channels back then so it couldn't have been too hard to miss!Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Here Come the Double Deckers was a seventeen-part British children's TV series from 1970/1971 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused works (junk) yard!. A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and American TV company 20th Century Fox, it was a comedy adventure sitcom similar in look and feel to other late 1960s / early 1970s sitcoms such as The Monkees, The Partridge Family and the Banana Splits!. The shows (without ads) were about 21 minutes long!.
The programme made its debut on September 12, 1970 at 10:30 am ET in the US on ABC, and at 4:55 pm on January 1, 1971 in Britain on BBC One!. In the US, the series was rerun on Sunday mornings during the 1971-1972 TV season on ABC from September 12, 1971 to September 3, 1972, in the same time slot!.[1]
Each week saw the gang in a separate adventure including episodes based around a runaway home-made hovercraft, a chocolate factory and a gun that shot out sweets, invading Martians, and a haunted castle!.
The cast were unknowns apart from Melvyn Hayes who appeared as Albert the Street Cleaner!. Of the younger stars, Peter Firth has gone on to a prominent acting career, appearing in Equus, The Hunt for Red October, Tess, Pearl Harbor and Spooks!. Co-star Brinsley Forde later became the lead singer in Aswad!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The programme made its debut on September 12, 1970 at 10:30 am ET in the US on ABC, and at 4:55 pm on January 1, 1971 in Britain on BBC One!. In the US, the series was rerun on Sunday mornings during the 1971-1972 TV season on ABC from September 12, 1971 to September 3, 1972, in the same time slot!.[1]
Each week saw the gang in a separate adventure including episodes based around a runaway home-made hovercraft, a chocolate factory and a gun that shot out sweets, invading Martians, and a haunted castle!.
The cast were unknowns apart from Melvyn Hayes who appeared as Albert the Street Cleaner!. Of the younger stars, Peter Firth has gone on to a prominent acting career, appearing in Equus, The Hunt for Red October, Tess, Pearl Harbor and Spooks!. Co-star Brinsley Forde later became the lead singer in Aswad!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
We had three, bbc1 bbc2 and itv!. I remember double decker crew on saturday mornings because my mother was too busy to cook so we ate pork pies for lunch while we watched!. Was there a banana split there!? the monkeys and oh, HR puffin stuff!.Www@Enter-QA@Com