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''Here Come the Double Deckers'' was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970-71 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused junk yard. ==The show== A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and the television division of 20th Century Fox, it was a children's comedy adventure sitcom. The shows (without adverts) are about 22 minutes in length. Each week saw the gang in a separate adventure including episodes based around a runaway homemade hovercraft, a chocolate factory and invading 'Martians' with guns that shot out chocolate candy, a disastrous camping holiday, collecting tin foil for a guide dog, becoming pop moguls with their protégé 'The Cool Cavalier' and a haunted stately home. Some of the cast were unknown, though Melvyn Hayes was an established adult actor, Gillian Bailey was fairly experienced for a child actor and both Brinsley Forde and Michael Audreson had appeared in ''The Magnificent Six and a Half'', a series of Children's Film Foundation films on which the Double Deckers were based. Melvyn Hayes also wrote the episode "Man's Best Friend", co-wrote the episode "Get a Movie On!", co-wrote the series' theme song, and acted as a dialogue coach for the series. Bailey is now head of the drama department at Royal Holloway University. Peter Firth has gone on to a prominent acting career, appearing in ''Equus'', ''The Hunt for Red October'', ''Tess'', ''Pearl Harbor'', and ''Spooks'' (''MI-5''). Co-star Brinsley Forde later became the lead singer in Aswad. The programme made its debut on 12 September 1970 at 10:30 am ET in the US on ABC, and at 4:55 pm on 1 January 1971 in Britain on BBC 1. In the US, the series was rerun on Sunday mornings during the 1971-72 TV season on ABC from 12 September 1971 to 3 September 1972, in the same time slot.〔''The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television'', by Wesley Hyatt (Billboard Books, 1997)〕 The series was originally scheduled for 26 episodes (as well as a second series of 26 additional episodes), but production ceased after 17 had been completed. The entire series was released on 1 November 2010 on DVD in the UK. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Here Come the Double Deckers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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