Jamie and his Magic Torch
Jamie and the Magic Torch is the title of a British
animated series; first broadcast on
television in
1976. Three series, each of thirteen episodes were produced by
Cosgrove-Hall Productions a Manchester-based production company.
The animated series renders the adventures of a young boy Jamie and his dog Wordsworth who acted as the guardian of the
Magic Torch. Every night after his mother tucked him into bed and wished that he "Sleep Well" Wordsworth would appear from beneath Jamie's bed with the torch in his mouth. Jamie would take the torch and shine it on his bedroom floor, opening up a hole that provided a colorful nexus to a strange world known as
Cuckoo Land.
Cuckoo Land is a psychedelic place inhabited by strange characters. Including an elderly gentleman Mr Boo who travelled through the air in a submarine looking machine, Strumpers Plunkett a vaguely humanoid musical creature and Officer Gotcha a unicycle traveling police man with a habit of eating truncheons.
Jamie and the Magic Torch is memorable for being entertaining while making absolutely no sense from a conventional social viewpoint.
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