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rosewart in heard_of_it

Showing my age but does anyone remember...

Jul 31, 2007 15:58

Catweazle was a British television series in 1970, created and written by Richard Carpenter and produced by London Weekend Television under the LWI (London Weekend International) banner, and screened in the UK on ITV. There were two seasons with 13 episodes of 25 minutes each ( Read more... )

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sailor_earth13 July 31 2007, 06:21:24 UTC

Yep I've also heard of those ;)

My b/f actually has the UK DVDs of Catweazle (he bought them last year).

The entire series is available in Australia as well.

Funnily enough in one series Catweazle is actually after the Philosopher's Stone - bit of a Harry Potter thing there, hehe - perhaps J.K. watched the series ;)

rosewart July 31 2007, 06:46:44 UTC

It's very possible JK was influenced by it... just as I know she was definitely influenced by Enid Blyton (first time I read the first HP novel with my son - aged 7 at the time, now 13 - I thought to myself "how twee, Enid Blyton wrote SO much better than this!")

I might look around the the catweazle dvd's and introduce my son to them. GREAT series.

Thanks.

sailor_earth13 July 31 2007, 07:04:39 UTC

Hehe... I particularly liked the theme song ;)

You may need to shop around for the DVDs if you're the sort who likes the cheapest available price ;) So far from my findings it appears that JB Hi-Fi has the best deal, but Big W is most often cheaper.

janey_mac July 31 2007, 17:10:29 UTC

Hey, I'm 24 and I used to watch Wurzel Gummige as a kid. Might have been re-runs, mind... And I never realised it was John Pertwee. Cool!

rosewart August 1 2007, 01:28:34 UTC

yeppies, Jon Pertwee is a very versatlie actor!

I'd say what you watched were DEFINITELY re-runs, cos I know I was about 12 or so when I saw them!