Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (TV series)

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Opening title
Starring Gerald Campion
Anthony Valentine
Michael Crawford
John Woodnutt
Jeremy Bulloch
Melvyn Hayes
Kenneth Cope
Roger Delgado
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series7
No. of episodes52 (43 missing)
Production
Producers Joy Harington
Shaun Sutton
Pharic Maclaren
David Goddard
Clive Parkhurst
Production locationsEsher Station, Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network BBC Television
Release19 February 1952 (1952-02-19) 
22 July 1961 (1961-07-22)

Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School is a BBC Television show broadcast from 1952 to 1961. [1] It was based on the Greyfriars School stories, written by author Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards. Hamilton wrote all of the scripts for the television show.

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Bunter was portrayed by actor Gerald Campion, [2] who was aged 29 when he was cast in the role in 1952, hence was playing a schoolboy only half his age. A number of genuine child actors were featured in the other schoolboy roles in the show, some of whom would gain notice in their subsequent adult careers, including Anthony Valentine, Michael Crawford, Jeremy Bulloch, Melvyn Hayes and Kenneth Cope. Only 9 of the show's 52 episodes are known to exist.

Development

The character Billy Bunter featured in stories about the fictional Greyfriars School which appeared for over 30 years (in fact, continuously from 1908 to 1940) in the boys' comic The Magnet , written mainly by author Charles Hamilton (although, as Hamilton was not always the author, the stories were published under the collective pen-name of Frank Richards). Plans to bring the stories to the cinema screen, featuring the comedian Will Hay as Bunter's form master Henry Samuel Quelch (based on his previous stage and film portrayals as a schoolmaster), had been discussed in the 1930s, but were unrealised. [3] In January 1947, the Daily Mail newspaper reported that the Rank Organisation and Rock Productions were interested in resurrecting the film project, with the latter paying a £150 fee to Charles Hamilton, but again the project was dropped. [4]

In May 1951, the BBC Children's Department made public its plans to screen a series of half-hour television shows featuring Billy Bunter as the principal character. These would be broadcast during Children's Hour. [5] Later that year, in December 1951, the BBC announced that it was looking for an actor to portray the character of Bunter, prompting seventy-five hopefuls to apply for the part. The search for a suitable actor received wide newspaper coverage, with the Daily Mirror covering the auditions both on its front page and in columnist Ian Mackey's 'diary'. The Daily Telegraph and Reynolds News were among other newspapers that also provided prominent coverage. When a 29-year-old [6] actor, Gerald Campion, who was married with two children, was cast in the role of Bunter, a 15-year-old schoolboy, the choice was greeted with mixed reactions. [7] [8] Apart from the matter of his age, Campion, although fairly short and somewhat rotund, was a relative lightweight at 11 stone 2 pounds (70.8 kg), compared with Bunter's weight of 14 stone 12 1/2 lb (94.5 kg) (as described in The Magnet in 1939), [9] and this added to the controversy (for the television series, Campion would wear padding to make him appear much fatter than he actually was). In fact Campion had already been considered for the role of Bunter, twelve years earlier, when the intention was to make a cinema film based on the character. [10]

Veteran character actor Kynaston Reeves was cast as schoolmaster Mr Quelch (and would play Quelch in four of the seven series, as the only recurring member of the main cast apart from Campion himself), with various unknown child actors cast in the roles of the various schoolboys. As the show continued into successive series over the following nine years, the schoolboy roles would be recast regularly as Campion's youthful co-stars aged beyond the putative ages of their characters. A number of the young actors later carved out successful acting careers as adults, including Anthony Valentine (cast as Lord Mauleverer and, later, as form captain Harry Wharton), Michael Crawford (as Frank Nugent), Jeremy Bulloch (as Bob Cherry), Melvyn Hayes (as the cad Harold Skinner), and Kenneth Cope (as school bully Gerald Loder).

Being set in a school, albeit a public school, the show was a production of the BBC's Children's Department rather than the Drama Department, and was aimed at a youthful audience. Accordingly, its first producer was Joy Harington, who had also produced an adaptation of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories, and of Robert Louis Stevenson's children's novel Treasure Island , among other children's shows. [11] Later episodes were produced by Shaun Sutton, who would eventually become a long serving head of television drama for the BBC. [12] The programme was made on a small budget.

Artist Tony Hart, who would later become well known as the presenter of TV shows Vision On , Playbox and Take Hart , provided the artwork for the opening credits. [13] The theme music was the "Portsmouth" section of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sea Songs . [14]

The earliest episodes were live performances, broadcast in two timeslots: at 5:40 pm (during children's programmes), and a repeat performance was given live the same evening at 8:00 pm, during family viewing when parents and children might watch together.

Many of the television scripts are adaptations, based on the Greyfriars novels featuring Bunter which Charles Hamilton wrote during the 1950s: more than three dozen such novels appeared in print between 1948 and 1965, and many of the television scripts bear titles which echo those of particular books. Indeed, a succession of TV episodes Lord Billy Bunter and Bunter's Christmas Party among many others – were aired under exactly the same title as the novel they were based on. Titles, plots, characters, even dialogue, were lifted wholesale from each novel – by the original author – and aired as a thirty-minute condensed TV adaptation of that novel.

Reception

"Bunter on TV seems to have roused a lot of comment. For myself I can only repeat that I like it very much indeed. If it isn't quite perfect, is anything in this imperfect world? I just love watching the plays, and wish they would go on for ever."

Charles Hamilton (1952)

Reaction to the first episode of the show was mixed. Jonah Barrington, radio critic of the Sunday Chronicle provided the doubled-edged observation that Bunter was the greatest TV character since Muffin the Mule. Newspaper reviewers generally agreed that the casting of Gerald Campion as Bunter and character actor Kynaston Reeves as Mr Quelch were successful – although some dissenters felt that Reeves' interpretation was closer to Upper Fourth master Mr Hacker than Mr Quelch.

The portrayal of the senior boys was generally viewed as adequate, but most reviewers agreed that the portrayal of the junior schoolboys was much less successful. The characters of Hurree Singh and Bob Cherry were seen as particularly poorly realised, with both woodenly parroting their familiar catch-phrases without the slightest expression.

The low budget of the production also attracted adverse comment, with reviewers noting a "certain emptiness of the sets" and the fact that the school seemed deserted apart from the principal characters. [15]

The show did not lose its popularity over its nine years on the air. If anything, it gained in popularity and ratings as time went by, resulting in later seasons comprising greater numbers of episodes. It eventually came to an end due only to the death, in December 1961 at the age of 85, of Charles Hamilton, who had created the character of Bunter and who wrote all of the televised scripts over the entire nine years.

Gerald Campion's last ever broadcast in the role of Billy Bunter occurred in July 1994, as part of a BBC Radio 4 series of spoof documentaries examining the careers of famous fictional characters, entitled Whatever Happened To ..., in which Campion appeared as Lord Bunter of Hove in the 4th programme of the series, which examined the later career of Horace Henry Samuel Quelch. [16]

Archive

Almost all episodes have been lost. Nine episodes exist today as telerecordings. The survivors are the complete third series (six episodes), and three isolated subsequent episodes. Some audio-only recordings also exist, in private hands. No recordings of the first series or the 1953 special are thought to have ever existed, as they were live broadcasts before telerecording was fully utilised by the BBC. [17]

The Series 7 episode 3 edition (aired 3 June 1961), entitled Double Bunter, survives because a 16mm film print of the episode was presented by the BBC to Gerald Campion upon the series ending, as it was an episode he particularly liked (because the script called on him to play two characters, not merely Bunter), so that many years later his family were able to loan it to BBC Archives – an organisation which didn't exist in 1961.

A common source of confusion is that early episodes for which no recording existed were remade by later producers, using different casts, [18] probably due to difficulties in obtaining new scripts from the ailing Charles Hamilton. In the last two years of Hamilton's life, the show's final producer, Clive Parkhurst, embarked on a policy of remaking the earliest scripts on a wholesale basis, and ultimately abandoned the school setting entirely: in the very last episodes, at the suggestion of Campion, [19] filming new scripts from other writers that sent Bunter off on a Mediterranean holiday cruise (initially as a stowaway) to Egypt, Italy and France.

Campion and a BBC film crew travelled to Malta to film location footage around the Mediterranean, for a sequence of episodes in which Lord Mauleverer lends his yacht, and takes a party of schoolboys (including Bunter), under the supervision of Mr Quelch, touring various holiday attractions. [20]

Principal characters and cast

NamePortrayed bySeries 1 (1952)1953/1954 SpecialsSeries 2 (1955)Series 3 (1956)1957 SpecialSeries 4 (1957)Series 5 (1959)Series 6 (1960)Series 7 (1961)
Billy Bunter Gerald Campion 626615989
Mr Quelch Kynaston Reeves 5134
Mr Quelch Raf De La Torre 6
Mr Quelch John Woodnutt 9
Mr Quelch Jack Melford 13
Harry WhartonJohn Charlesworth66
Harry WhartonHenry Searle1
Harry Wharton Anthony Valentine 35
Harry WhartonRichard Palmer9
Harry WhartonJulian Yardley13
Frank NugentMichael Danvers-Walker61
Frank NugentPeter Marden6
Frank Nugent Laurence Harrington 35
Frank Nugent Michael Crawford 9
Bob Cherry Keith Faulkner 65
Bob CherryBrian Smith1
Bob Cherry Brian Roper 63
Bob Cherry Cavan Kendall 9
Bob CherryPeter Greenspan1
Bob Cherry Jeremy Bulloch 3
Hurree Jamset Ram Singh David Spenser 6
Hurree Jamset Ram SinghRonald Moody16
Hurree Jamset Ram SinghJames Doran5
Hurree Jamset Ram SinghLeonard Davey9
Hurree Jamset Ram SinghBrian Tipping1
Hurree Jamset Ram SinghHugh Ward3
Johnny BullBarry MacGregor61
Johnny Bull Colin Campbell 6
Johnny BullDavid Coote35
Johnny Bull Nigel Anthony 9
Johnny BullMelvin Baker1
Johnny BullGregory Warwick3
Harold Skinner Philip Guard 2
Harold SkinnerHenry Davies2
Harold Skinner Melvyn Hayes 21
Harold SkinnerBarry Halliday11
Lord MaulevererCavan Malone1
Lord Mauleverer Anthony Valentine 4
Lord Mauleverer Glyn Dearman 11
Lord MaulevererMalcolm Gerard1
Herbert Vernon-SmithRobin Willott1
Gerald Loder Kenneth Cope 11
Horace CokerMiles Brown11
Horace CokerPeter Scott12
Horace Coker Michael Caridia 2
Horace CokerIan Hobbs1

Episodes

Series 1 (1952)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
1"The Siege"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards19 February 1952 (1952-02-19)No
2"The Report"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards26 February 1952 (1952-02-26)No
3"Bunter's Christmas Party"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards4 March 1952 (1952-03-04)No
4"Bunter's Postal Order"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards11 March 1952 (1952-03-11)No
5"Bunter's Bicycle"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards18 March 1952 (1952-03-18)No
6"A Piece of Cake"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards25 March 1952 (1952-03-25)No

1953 & 1954 Specials

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
7 [21] [22] "Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards7 July 1953 (1953-07-07)No
8 [23] [24] "Bunter Won't Go"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards1 July 1954 (1954-07-01)No

Series 2 (1955)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
9"Bunter on the Run"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards9 July 1955 (1955-07-09)No
10"Bunter the Hypnotist"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards23 July 1955 (1955-07-23)No
11"Lord Billy Bunter"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards6 August 1955 (1955-08-06)No
12"Bunter Forgot"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards20 August 1955 (1955-08-20)No
13"Bunter takes the Blame"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards3 September 1955 (1955-09-03)No
14"Bunter Knows How"Joy HaringtonFrank Richards17 September 1955 (1955-09-17)No

Series 3 (1956)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
15"Backing Up Bunter" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards9 September 1956 (1956-09-09)Yes [25]
16"Bunter the Bold" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards16 September 1956 (1956-09-16)Yes
17"Billy Bunter's Double" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards23 September 1956 (1956-09-23)Yes
18"Hunting Bunter" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards30 September 1956 (1956-09-30)Yes
19"Bunter on the Warpath" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards7 October 1956 (1956-10-07)Yes [26]
20"Bunter's Christmas Box" Shaun Sutton Frank Richards14 October 1956 (1956-10-14)Yes

1957 Special

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
21"Bull's-Eye for Bunter [27] [28] "Douglas FlemingFrank Richards12 March 1957 (1957-03-12)No

Series 4 (1957)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
22"Beastly For Bunter"Pharic MaclarenFrank Richards20 July 1957 (1957-07-20)No
23"Bunter The Ventriloquist"Pharic MaclarenFrank Richards3 August 1957 (1957-08-03)No
24"Bad Lad Bunter!"Pharic MaclarenFrank Richards10 August 1957 (1957-08-10)No
25"Bunter Keeps It Dark"Pharic MaclarenFrank Richards17 August 1957 (1957-08-17)No
26"Bunter Does His Best"Pharic MaclarenFrank Richards31 August 1957 (1957-08-31)No

Series 5 (1959)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
27"Bunter's Bargain"David GoddardFrank Richards13 June 1959 (1959-06-13)No
28"Billy Bunter's Burglar"David GoddardFrank Richards27 June 1959 (1959-06-27)Yes
29"Phoney Bunter"David GoddardFrank Richards11 July 1959 (1959-07-11)No
30"Bunter's Birching"David GoddardFrank Richards18 July 1959 (1959-07-18)No
31"Bunter Spells Trouble"David GoddardFrank Richards1 August 1959 (1959-08-01)No
32"Boastful Bunter"David GoddardFrank Richards3 August 1959 (1959-08-03)No
33"Bunter's Bedtime Story"David GoddardFrank Richards8 August 1959 (1959-08-08)No
34"Bunter's Bull's Eye [29] "David GoddardFrank Richards15 August 1959 (1959-08-15)No
35"Treasure Hunter Bunter"David GoddardFrank Richards29 August 1959 (1959-08-29)No

Series 6 (1960)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
36"Bunter the Hypnotist [30] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards16 July 1960 (1960-07-16)No
37"Brainy Bunter"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards30 July 1960 (1960-07-30)No
38"Bunter Knows How [31] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards13 August 1960 (1960-08-13)No [32] [33]
39"Lord Billy Bunter [34] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards20 August 1960 (1960-08-20)No
40"Bunter's Bicycle [35] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards27 August 1960 (1960-08-27)No [36]
41"Toffee Hunter Bunter"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards10 September 1960 (1960-09-10)No [37]
42"Bunter Won't Go [38] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards17 September 1960 (1960-09-17)Yes [39]
43"Bunter's Party [40] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards24 September 1960 (1960-09-24)No [41]

Series 7 (1961)

#TitleProduced byWritten byOriginal Broadcast DateIn BBC archive?
44"Backing Up Bunter [42] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards20 May 1961 (1961-05-20)No
45"Bold Bunter [43] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards27 May 1961 (1961-05-27)No
46"Double Bunter [44] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards3 June 1961 (1961-06-03)Yes [45]
47"Hunting Bunter [46] "Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards10 June 1961 (1961-06-10)No
48"Stowaway Bunter"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards [47] 17 June 1961 (1961-06-17)No
49"Bunter Goes to Cairo"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards [48] 24 June 1961 (1961-06-24)No
50"Bunter Goes to Venice"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards [49] 1 July 1961 (1961-07-01)No
51"Bunter Goes to Naples"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards [50] 15 July 1961 (1961-07-15)No
52"Bunter Goes to Nice"Clive ParkhurstFrank Richards [51] 22 July 1961 (1961-07-22)No

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  2. BBC Genome: Gerald Campion
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  4. Hamilton-Wright, P.192
  5. "8 - Broadcasting Bunter". Archived from the original on 26 August 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  6. Gerald Campion was born on 23 April 1921 in London
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  8. RADA trained and educated at University College School, London, Gerald Campion appeared destined to play the part of Billy Bunter. In 1947 he played 'Fatty Mathews' in a play on television called 'Boys in Brown'. Five years later in 1952 he appeared as 'Fat Boy' in the motion picture adaptation of 'The Pickwick Papers'. You can thus see a pattern emerging.
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  12. Shaun Sutton (1919–2004) at the Internet Movie DataBase
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  20. Start The Week with Richard Baker - BBC Radio 4, Monday 5 May 1980
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  22. Transmitted 17:00-17:30
  23. BBC Genome: 1954-07-01
  24. Transmitted 17:10-17:40
  25. Backing Up Bunter
  26. Bunter on the Warpath
  27. BBC Genome: 1957-03-12
  28. Transmitted 17:00-17:25
  29. New production of episode No.21
  30. New production of episode No.10
  31. New production of episode No.14
  32. Thought to be one of four episodes for which a complete, or almost complete, audio recording survives in private hands
  33. Bunter Knows How
  34. New production of episode No.11
  35. New production of episode No.5
  36. Thought to be one of four episodes for which a complete, or almost complete, audio recording survives in private hands
  37. Thought to be one of four episodes for which a complete, or almost complete, audio recording survives in private hands
  38. New production of episode No.8
  39. Bunter Won't Go
  40. New production of episode No.6 ?
  41. Thought to be one of four episodes for which a complete, or almost complete, audio recording survives in private hands
  42. New production of episode No.15
  43. New production of episode No.16
  44. New production of episode No.17
  45. Double Bunter
  46. New production of episode No.18
  47. It is believed that, due to his final illness, Charles Hamilton did not write the final five broadcast episodes. Although they were credited on transmission under the traditional pen-name Frank Richards, they were most likely written by producer Clive Parkhurst.
  48. It is believed that, due to his final illness, Charles Hamilton did not write the final five broadcast episodes. Although they were credited on transmission under the traditional pen-name Frank Richards, they were most likely written by producer Clive Parkhurst.
  49. It is believed that, due to his final illness, Charles Hamilton did not write the final five broadcast episodes. Although they were credited on transmission under the traditional pen-name Frank Richards, they were most likely written by producer Clive Parkhurst.
  50. It is believed that, due to his final illness, Charles Hamilton did not write the final five broadcast episodes. Although they were credited on transmission under the traditional pen-name Frank Richards, they were most likely written by producer Clive Parkhurst.
  51. It is believed that, due to his final illness, Charles Hamilton did not write the final five broadcast episodes. Although they were credited on transmission under the traditional pen-name Frank Richards, they were most likely written by producer Clive Parkhurst.

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