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Jackanory Playhouse was a halfway-house approach between the talking head storytelling of Jackanory and the expense and logistical undertaking of a full-scale drama production. Productions were made almost exclusively in the studio in as few takes as possible, against scaled-down theatre-style settings.
Jackanory Playhouse: With Peter Settelen, Maurice Denham, Patsy Smart, George Innes. A spin-off series from "Jackanory", was "Jackanory Playhouse" (1972-85), which was a series of thirty-minute dramatisations.
The fruit of the jo-jo tree is a cure for many ailments. But the garden where the tree grows is heavily guarded and the punishment for plucking the fruit is death. Rate.
Serie de TV (1965-1996). 3640 episodios. "Jackanory" es una serie de televisión infantil de la BBC que se emitió originalmente entre 1965 y 1996. Fue diseñada para estimular el interés por la lectura.
Jackanory is a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 13 December 1965 to 24 March 1996. The show's format was designed to stimulate an interest in reading, and usually involved an actor reading an abridged version of a children's novel or folk tale whilst seated in an armchair.
Jackanory: Muddle Earth. Joe and his new friends find Englebert The Enormous but he's not his usual ogre-like self.
Later filmed inserts were included and later still Jackanory Playhouse, a series of largely studio-bound plays based on traditional folk tales (BBC, 1972-85) spun-off from the original programme, but rarely used original scripts -with the exception of Helen Cresswell’s "Lizzie Dripping" (which was later remade as a series in its own right).
