Answerboards

After exploring a range of wierd showbiz questions on answerboards, I blogged an old British tv series called " Grasshopper Island", and found a question just waiting for me within the context of a "Society and Culture Forum"; check out http://www.society-forum.cn , and learn the identities of the major actors in this great little series made in 1970 by the British doyen of kids television, Joy Whitby;
Tim Brooke-Taylor steals the opening episode with a multi-character performance in the tradition of the great Sir Alec Guinness; the series is out on dvd, but has been slightly edited from what was shown here on the ABC back in the early '80's; political correctness clearly requiring some segments be toned down for our more conservative times...