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Aunt Galladia

April 1985 (estimated) TV Episode Bill The Minder

Studio
Bevanfield Films, Link Licensing, Ltd.

Synopsis

Norris, Aunt Galladia's pet Very Rare And Beautiful Green-Toed Button Crane of Baraboo, has escaped from his cage and she can't get him down from the tree despite tempting him with his favorite Peruvian Yak Beans. Bill invents an ingenious device to recapture Norris, and Aunt Galladia is so delighted she gives him to Bill as a reward.

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
Design And Layouts
Mike Davies
Assistant Animator
Bill Lee

Art Department

Backgrounds
Dennis Sutton
Trace and Paint Supervisor
Martin Dray

Camera

Rostrum Camera
Julian Holdaway, Bob Skeggs

Editing

Editor
Mike Murray

Music Department

Title Music
The Triumphal March from Verdi's Aida

Crew

Production Co-ordinator
Steve Flack

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).