Monday 13 January 2014

Simon and the Witch


Today's next programme is another fond memory for me, Simon and the Witch!


Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very silly, and a huge showoff.

Based on books by Margaret Stuart Barry, this children’s comedy starred Hugh Pollard as Simon, a boy who befriends Elizabeth Spriggs’ fantastically mischievous witch, who actually didn’t do much harm at all. Simon was friends with spiteful schoolgirl Sally and Cuthbert, who was rather feeble and lived with his frightfully posh aunt, Lady Fox-Custard, played by Joan Simms. Fox-Custard had her own butler, Hopkins, but between them they were unable to thwart the witch and her pranks - in fact, Simon was the sensible one, and had to keep this mad granny-figure in check. 

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