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The Clitheroe Kid

Comedy: Character

Legendary sitcom about Lancashire's eternal naughty schoolboy. Starring Jimmy Clitheroe.

The Clitheroe Kid: What a Picnic

Comedy: Sitcoms

12/08/2018

What a Picnic

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Clitheroe Kid, What a Picnic

A family picnic jeopardises the kid's standing in the Black Hand Gang.

4 Extra Debut. A family picnic jeopardises the kid's standing in the Black Hand Gang. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From June 1960.

A family picnic jeopardises the cheeky schoolboy's standing in The Black Hand Gang. 

Starring Jimmy Clitheroe. With Peter Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Diana Day as Susan and Leonard Williams as Theodore Craythorpe.

With Peter Goodwright, Tony Melody, Karal Gardner and Joan Sharp. 

Just 4 feet 3 inches tall, the success of comic entertainer Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) sprang from a BBC Variety Playhouse try-out in the late 1950s. His naughty schoolboy act was a smash and he even wore school uniform during recordings! At its peak, ten million fans were tuning into 'The Clitheroe Kid' on the BBC Light Programme. 

Every week, the Kid's schemes sparked havoc - with the ever present threat of a good spanking from Grandad. The Clitheroe Kid clocked up 16 series in its run from 1956 to 1972. 

Theme music by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra directed by Alan Ainsworth

Scripted by Frank Roscoe. 

Producer: James Casey. 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1960.

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