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Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

At 1.30pm on Thursday 25 February 1971, the character of Mr Benn walked cheerfully into many children’s lives. The first episode of the animated series saw Benn, an ordinary resident of 52 Festive Roa

If you watched any children’s TV during the school holidays between 1985 and 1992, you would have quickly become familiar with the career of Timmy Mallett, the host of TV-am’s Wacaday. Essentially a w

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY