Your Mother Wouldn't Like It
An innovative children's sketch production - winner of a BAFTA
Award for Best Children's Entertainment Program - that spoofed and
satirised life as experienced by youngsters and teenagers, and
created such characters as the Superman-like Tweeman, superhero
Street Budgie, Loaf and his tea-lady mother (both played by Ian
Kirkby), the Tapeworm Puppet and, in the first series,
journalist/reporter the Wimp.
This latter part was taken by Simon Schatzberger, who was
playing Adrian Mole in the first stage version of Sue Townsend's
creation. Completing the connection, Townsend scripted the weekly
Wimp sketches.
The players were drawn from some of the 140 members of the
Central Junior Television Workshop, based in Nottingham and
sponsored by Central TV.
Some of the best-received sketches were set in Palace Hill, a Grange
Hill-like comprehensive school supposedly attended by Princes
William and Harry. These led to a spin-off series, Palace Hill
networked by Central from November 1988.
Other characters were played by Richard Allenson, Julian
Aubrey, Karl Collins, Ashley Cowdrey, Richard de Sousa, Alison
Dury, Stacey Green, Tessa Harrison, Oliver Hawker, Pui Fan Lee,
Julie Schatzberger, Dena Snelgrove, Tracie Stanley, Philip
Wombwell, Phoebe Wood, Keeley Coxon, Mark Dexter, James Hooton,
Sally Johnson, Gina Kawecka, Amanda Loy Ellis, Katie McReynolds,
Steven Ryde, Shamaun Rafiq, Jason Smith, Shanila Wahid, Simon
Townley, Debbie Wiseman and Tony Wharmby.
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