The Enid Blyton Society

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An N, please.

Domino wrote:If you Google the following, you will find a page about the 1955 puppet series, with some interesting pics (including one of Enid Blyton holding the puppet).

lostmediawiki.com/The_Adventures_of_Noddy_(lost_puppet_TV_series;_1955)

Scroll down further to Footage, and you will see. about half way in, a brief clip of the only surviving footage of part of one episode. (You will probably see Leslie Crowther and Peter Glaze for a few seconds before the Noddy clip starts.)

Very interesting, Dave. Thanks for that.

Courtenay wrote:Blimey... they got away with having Noddy deliberately photograph a girl doll in a dress as she was bending over?!?! (And there we were all thinking golliwogs were the most controversial thing about Noddy...)

Good thing for the doll that the photo didn't come out the way Noddy expected!

Courtenay wrote:I remember finding out from one of Enid's editorials in EB Magazine (which Rob has been sharing in another thread) that The Adventures of Noddy was among the earliest programmes shown when television came to Australia in 1956.

Yes, and it was also one of the first programmes to be shown on the new ITV channel in Britain.

(Sorry to derail the game!)

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Anita Bensoussane wrote: Good thing for the doll that the photo didn't come out the way Noddy expected!

Yes, and in the meantime it seems Noddy was (inadvertently) into taking selfies long before the rest of us!

Anita Bensoussane wrote: Yes, and it was also one of the first programmes to be shown on the new ITV channel in Britain.

... thanks, I presume, to the BBC's infamous verdict years earlier that they wouldn't have any Enid Blyton programmes because she was a little too full of "Pinky-winky Doodle-doodle Dumm-dumm"!

Back to the game, I think I've almost figured it out, but I've a nasty suspicion it's another case of my not having read the book in question and not knowing who exactly it's referring too...

I've also worked out some of it. Could we have a P, please?

Anita Bensoussane wrote:Could we have a P, please?

Oh no, no-one ever does that in Enid Blyton.

(sorry )

*Groan*

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S please

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How about a B?

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H please

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