Chorlton and the Wheelies

There are certain programmes that you remember from your childhood (now I am 32!)... Dangermouse was the ultimate hero, although I always put on the Penfold voice for my own amusement... Jamie and his Magic Torch - I mean how drugged up was that...Trap Door was so damn funny... but then you have a weird dog faced dragon, a witch that lived in a kettle and little weird bloody things with wheels running around. I mean, come on, CATW rates alongside Will'o'the'wisp and the Magic Roundabout for being the ultimate kids show to watch after smoking a spliff! Anyway, the animation was excellent for its age, and the characters so memorable. Shame its not repeated often, but so much fun!

You really do have to see Chorlton & The Wheelies to understand why this is archetypal in the UK. A children's television series from broad casted in the 1970's. Its surrealism has made it timeless. Imagine all taking all the drugs in the 60's and that doesn't come close to its psychedelic creation. the evil witch Fenella, who lives with her army of evil toadstools lives in a giant kettle has cast a spell upon Wheelie World,using the surly Claptrap Von Spillderbeans, her book of spells. Wheelies are wheeled talking balls and are happy and energetic if it wasn't for Fenella's spell. Chorlton then appears, a perpetually Happy Dragon, speaks like he's from Yorkshire. Chorlton brings back happiness and Fenella continuously tries to crush them.