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From: Renia <>
Subject: Re: OT children's programme/book
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:53:51 +0200
References: <3E78D96D.3C307CF3@hnpl.net> <3E791E77.7090306@otenet.gr> <3E794156.77B17200@hnpl.net> <3E797E37.3000803@otenet.gr> <b5c4h8$h82$1@sparta.btinternet.com> <3E7A29AE.FE7558D@hnpl.net>


Keith Michell performed Captain Beaky on a record which made the British
charts. No evidence it was a TV programme as well.

See:
http://www.yearsofgold.org.uk/1980WEEK10MARCH8.htm
http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/parker.html
http://www.feelgoodcompany.com/mariannesegal/page10.html

Renia


Michael wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who has answered so far.
>
> Before I asked this question I did extensive searches by Google, including for
> Keith Michell but I was not convinced that I had identified the story I was
> after. I am inclined to think that it might well have been Captain Beaky but it
> is the title of the programme/story that bothers me. It was something like "Tim
> and his friend's adventures with Captain Beaky and the pirates". Now, I am
> really floundering here and this is only a dim memory but the title was
> something like that.
>
> Sorry, I can't remember anything about the story itself but it was done in a
> studio setting and I think it was recited rather than acted. I think there were
> about 8 celebrities taking part. At a guess I would have put it in the early
> 70s (remember I saw it on NZ TV and we do tend to be a bit behind). My wife has
> suggested that Jim Parker wrote the music. Sounds like the sort of thing he
> would have done but I am not sure of that.
>
> Thanks again
> Michael (still sunny in Hamilton - no Autumn fog!)
>

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