Educating Marmalade - The Complete Series

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It is a tribute to her character that Marmalade triumphs over the awfulness of her life with such wonderful humour and a smiling, positive attitude. episodes were made altogether (and were a Thames production for ITV) and they have all been released on DVD by Network, the only extras included though are photo galleries.Quote from: Alternative Carpark on January 27, 2022, 06:46:25 PMCharlotte Coleman, in character as Marmalade Atkins, also had a stint as the Children's ITV presenter during April 1983. Both series would happily parody other popular shows and films at the time, hence episodes titled Cringe Hill, Marmalade Bravo, 007½ and Shame – in which Marmalade is enrolled in the New York School for Big Heads and Show-offs.

Her wild behaviour has seen her expelled from virtually every school she's attended, and this fondly remembered kid's sitcom sees her causing further mayhem at a range of educational and correctional establishments. Cheerfully describing herself as "the worst girl in the world," the troublesome Marmalade (played on television by Charlotte Colman) was the bane of the existence of every grown-up that crossed her path, especially her long-suffering parents.

This was soon followed by her role as the teenage rebel Marmalade Atkins, firstly in Marmalade Atkins in Space (a one-off drama shown in 1981), and then in two series, Educating Marmalade (1982–83) and Danger: Marmalade at Work (1984).

From Eton to the Convent of the Blessed Limit to Dartmoor, Marmalade remains impervious to discipline - to the constant despair of her parents, hapless social worker Mrs Allgood, and child psychologist Dr Glenfiddick. All articles are copyright © Television Heaven or their individual authors where stated and may not be reproduced without permission. also included is the pilot episode, Marmalade Atkins in Space, first screened as part of the anthology series Theatre Box in 1981. She's a rebel: we go to places like Eton, have a nanny, even hire a woman like Barbara Woodhouse and they all give up on her. I think there was a Marmalade comic strip in Look-in magazine (alongside ones about Adam Ant solving a mystery and taking everyone along to see E.

Marmalade had first appeared in the book Marmalade and Rufus in 1979 but it was the wonderful Charlotte Coleman who breathed life into the bubble gum blowing rebel whose actions were so ludicrous that every nervous parent watching the series must have prayed that their own child would see the ridiculousness of them without resorting to imitation.

Despite the efforts of her parents (John Bird and Lynda La Plante), social worker Mrs Allgood (Gillian Raine) and child psychologist Dr. Every episode of "Educating Marmalade" (and its sequel, "Danger: Marmalade at Work") begins with a "Bad Girl Warning" from Marmalade's social worker (in this series, the dreadful Mrs Allgood) but is Marmalade really a bad girl? Quote from: Rizla on January 27, 2022, 04:04:25 PMI have it in the same mindbracket as "Seaview" starring pre-Blue Peter Yvette Fielding, perhaps because she also caused "feelings". This brash and noisy television comic strip was developed by Andrew Davies from his own book, Marmalade and Rufus. At 15, feeling that her upbringing had been too liberal, since her parents "didn't believe in restraint", Coleman enrolled at Dartington Hall School in Devon.Marmalade remained a total menace and every week she would have a different job such as a chef, spy, air stewardess and so on. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Although he has received plaudits from adult critics for his script work on such TV and film projects as To Serve Them All My Days and Bridget Jones's Diary, Andrew Davies is best known to British youngsters as the creator of Miss Marmalade Atkins.