The King
- Studio
- Bevanfield Films, Link Licensing, Ltd.
Synopsis
Bill, Boadicea and Chad find an old King hiding in a pile of straw. His subjects had come to hold him in such awe that even his ministers were reluctant to bother him. To relieve the isolation he had taken to sneaking out to the henhouse at night, to play dominoes and eat roast chicken with his ministers until the cock crowed. But one night, having run out of chickens, they were forced to roast the cock. This meant they had no way of knowing when it was dawn, and as a result they were discovered by his subjects. The King was so humiliated he ran away at once and hid on the Downs. Bill reassures the King and builds a special wheelchair so they can take the King back to his Kingdom.
Characters
Bill, Boadicea, Chad
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Timothy Forder
Producing
- Producer
- Mary Swindale
Animation
- Animator
- Mike Davies, Peter Hale
- Assistant Animator
- Bill Lee
Voices
- Voice
- Peter Chelsom (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Barrie Guard
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).