Best of the bunch

We look back on the adventures of the bus-based magnificent seven, The Double Deckers , which first aired 55 years ago…

Cabbages and Crackerjack pencils at the ready! We celebrate the 70th birthday of an ear-splitting and groundbreaking children’s TV classic

If there’s a mystery to be solved and an adventure to be had, who better to call on than four teenagers and a dog?

So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

The daughter of actress Dinah Sheridan and actor Jimmy Hanley, Jenny Hanley came to Magpie as an established actress, already having been in Hammer films, the Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

‘I ought to warn you, that if you haven’t read any of my stories, that you may be disturbed by some of the things which happen in them.” With this note of caution, author Roald Dahl began his brief in