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Jackanory Playhouse: With Peter Settelen, Maurice Denham, Patsy Smart, George Innes. A spin-off series from "Jackanory", was "Jackanory Playhouse" (1972-85), which was a series of thirty-minute dramatisations.
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In 1983, Malou Bonicos was commissioned to provide illustrations for one Jackanory story. Usually a single book would occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes, from Monday to Friday. A spin-off series was Jackanory Playhouse (1972–85), which was a series of thirty-minute dramatisations.
Jackanory Playhouse was a halfway-house approach between the talking head storytelling of Jackanory and the expense and logistical undertaking of a full-scale drama production. Productions were made almost exclusively in the studio in as few takes as possible, against scaled-down theatre-style settings.
S1.E4 ∙ No Experience Necessary. Fri, Dec 8, 1972. Mr. Johnson has a dreadful day when Stan and Joe come to work at his petrol station. Rate.
Jackanory succeeded in persuading many reluctant readers to pick up a book. The success of spin-off Jackanory Playhouse encouraged the BBC to develop more children's dramas, such as Jonny Briggs.
Jackanory: Muddle Earth. Joe and his new friends find Englebert The Enormous but he's not his usual ogre-like self.
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Jackanory ran from 1965 to 1995, yielding an astronomical 3,500 15-minute episodes and a companion series, Jackanory Playhouse. Learn more about the full cast of Jackanory with news, photos ...
