The Magnificent Six and 1/2
A group of seven children have various comic misadventures whilst trying to help people, in this series of movies produced by the Children's Film Foundation, based on Hal Roach's "Our Gang" series of comedy shorts.
Seasons
1. Ghosts and Ghoulies
Air Date: 1968-02-03
The gang initiate new members Whizz and Peewee by having him spend the night in a haunted house.
2. When Knights Were Bold
Air Date: 1968-02-10
The kids find a suit of armor, which Dumbo tries on, and quickly gets stuck in.
3. Billy the Kid
Air Date: 1968-02-17
The gang are involved with a mischievous goat which turns out to be a missing regimental mascot.
4. Kontiki Kids
Air Date: 1968-02-24
The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal, with just one problem: actually getting the raft to the canal.
5. Bob-a-Job
Air Date: 1968-03-02
The gang help in the collections for a youth club.
6. Peewee's Pianola
Air Date: 1968-03-09
The kids find a pianola, and try to bring it to junkyard owner Old Tom. But when it runs away, with Peewee trapped inside of it, nothing but chaos ensues.
1. Peewee Had A Little Ape
Air Date: 1969-08-02
Toby tries on a dummy ape skin and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a circus.
2. A Good Deed In Time
Air Date: 1969-08-09
The gang try to be helpful, but practically every deed they partake in involves borrowing a ladder from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!
3. The Magician
Air Date: 1969-08-16
At Peewee's birthday party Marvo the Magician loses Stodger in his special cabinet and then disappears himself. But Stodger materialises wherever there is any food.
4. A Lad In The Lamp
Air Date: 1969-08-23
An unscrupulous ice-cream vendor steals an old lamp from the gang, but Whizz has fixed a walkie-talkie inside the lamp and the vendor gets more than he bargained for.
5. It's Not Cricket
Air Date: 1969-08-30
The gang's cricket ball is confiscated by an angry man who throws it on to a passing lorry. The kids try to retrieve the ball at a local construction site, causing their usual share of havoc along the way.
6. The Astronoughts
Air Date: 1969-09-06
Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough, they believe they are in outer space.
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Rating
0.0/10
Release Date
1968-02-03
Episodes
18 (3 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
