Clay Stool was a daytime children's TV programme which we introduced a while back (you can listen to the theme tune here).
Many readers will remember the programme's cast of toys (see above), some of which became stars in their own right: Big Ted, Hamble, Humpty and Jemima.
Many, however, have forgotten 'Little Head', who only became a regular due to a typo on the programme's props list, which was supposed to have requested 'Little Ted'. Production staff were still frantically looking for an appropriately-sized head literally minutes before the programme went out live. A quick-thinking studio manager (who some believe was telekinetically controlled by Hamble) ended the panic by decapitating one of the cameramen, who had been scheduled for ritual recycling anyway.
Producers hoped that children wouldn't notice that Little Ted had replaced Little Head in the following week's episode, but they did. Thousands wrote in demanding that Little Head be reinstated.
Little Head eventually received his own line of merchandising (including a very popular biscuit barrel). He went on to host a Saturday evening primetime show, which involved an electric current being passed through his cranium and him yelping out the names and addresses of people who, in his opinion, did not deserve welfare payments.
Little head is sadly missed he exposed 5 welfare scroungers on our estate including my father, eldest sister and the local priest Father O'Fingers.His status is legendary and he had a penchant for out of date fish fingers.
ReplyDeleteHumpty was named after BBC Northumbria disk jockey Harry "Humpty" Chatterton, a prolific amateur pornographer.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite segment on Clay Stool was when the announcer would present a problem to Little Head and then ask all the children to help solve it by saying, "Think with your Little Head!"
ReplyDeleteI remembered it being littler.
ReplyDeleteWe used to get the Scottish Dubbed version up here in Stornabach, were he was know as Wee Heed, he married Miss Hooligan from Sottish we'ans TV show Tobermory.
ReplyDeleteI saw them pushing Little Head through the Square Window but Mummy told me it wasn't true.
ReplyDeleteI think I recall Humpty on another children's show called the Polka-Dot-Door. Do you suppose he was moonlighting or did he just have family outside of Scarfolk?
ReplyDeleteDidn't Little Head once do a poo on Blue Peter?
ReplyDeleteWhich one is Numpty again?
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