Old Crispin
- Studio
- Bevanfield Films, Link Licensing, Ltd.
Synopsis
Old Crispin becomes sick of gathering mushrooms. So sick he takes to his bed and refuses to eat anything. Except jelly. So his wife Chloe spends all her time making jelly, and gets her nephew Bill to mind her two children, Boadicea and Chad.
But Old Crispin eats so much jelly that he gets very fat- and although he has recovered from his ennui he is now too bloated to return to mushroom-picking. So Bill invents an ingenious exercise machine for Old Crispin, then continues to wander across the Downs with his two charges.
But Old Crispin eats so much jelly that he gets very fat- and although he has recovered from his ennui he is now too bloated to return to mushroom-picking. So Bill invents an ingenious exercise machine for Old Crispin, then continues to wander across the Downs with his two charges.
Characters
Bill, Boadicea, Chad
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Timothy Forder
Producing
- Producer
- Mary Swindale
Voices
- Voice
- Peter Chelsom (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Barrie Guard
Animation
- Animator
- Mike Davies, Peter Hale
- Assistant Animator
- Bill Lee
Editing
- Editor
- Mike Murray
Crew
- Design And Layouts
- Mike Davies
- Trace and Paint Supervisor
- Martin Dray
- Backgrounds
- Dennis Sutton
- Production Co-ordinator
- Steve Flack
- Rostrum Camera
- Julian Holdaway, Bob Skeggs
- Title Music
- The Triumphal March from Verdi's Aida
Production notes
Shown in the PBS anthology series, "Long Ago & Far Away" in 1990.
Originally a series of 15 5-minute episodes aired in 1985, Bill the Minder is a (loose) adaptation of William Heath Robinson's 1912 children's book. Heath Robinson was a British illustrator and cartoonist most remembered for his cartoons showing ingenious contraptions (where Americans refer to something as a 'Rube Goldberg' device the British will call it a 'Heath Robinson' one).
Originally a series of 15 5-minute episodes aired in 1985, Bill the Minder is a (loose) adaptation of William Heath Robinson's 1912 children's book. Heath Robinson was a British illustrator and cartoonist most remembered for his cartoons showing ingenious contraptions (where Americans refer to something as a 'Rube Goldberg' device the British will call it a 'Heath Robinson' one).