Brilliant but scatterbrained, Professor Branestawm (whose inventions tend to work in ways completely unforeseen by the inventor) finds himself in conflict with property developers.
I have an abiding memory of sitting in Mr Weston's class at the age of 9 or so, around 1960, and being mesmerised at the notion of half a policeman saying "Pass along, p-". Tonight that image, reproduced faithfully on my TV, transported me straight back to my childhood.
Charlie Higson's adaptation of the classic children's character (played beautifully by Harry Hill) is pitch perfect. It summons up a period England of the imagination, peopled with wonderfully improbable (and funny) characters and events. Bright, colourful and cheerful, it is an unqualified success. I hope we will see more.
I have an abiding memory of sitting in Mr Weston's class at the age of 9 or so, around 1960, and being mesmerised at the notion of half a policeman saying "Pass along, p-". Tonight that image, reproduced faithfully on my TV, transported me straight back to my childhood.
Charlie Higson's adaptation of the classic children's character (played beautifully by Harry Hill) is pitch perfect. It summons up a period England of the imagination, peopled with wonderfully improbable (and funny) characters and events. Bright, colourful and cheerful, it is an unqualified success. I hope we will see more.