Uncle Jack

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Uncle Jack
Written by Jim Eldridge
Starring Paul Jones
Fenella Fielding
Vivian Pickles
Tricia George
Roger Hammond
Sarah Lambert
Giuseppe Peluso
Catherine Lohr
Brian Capron
Jimmi Harkishin
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series4
No. of episodes24
Production
Running time25 minutes
Release
Original network BBC1
Original release4 October 1990 (1990-10-04) 
4 November 1993 (1993-11-04)

Uncle Jack was a children's TV show which aired on BBC1 in the early 1990s.

Contents

The plot centres around Jack Green, an environmentalist and undercover agent for MI5, who with his family are on a mission to save the planet. Jack's archenemy was a criminal known only as "the Vixen" who would come up with diabolical schemes to rule the world. [1]

Cast

Episodes

Uncle Jack ran for four series with four six part episodes with each having an environmental message:

Series 1 (1990)

Uncle Jack and Operation Green

Episodes:

1. How it all Began..
2. The Plot Thickens
3. Carrying the Can
4. Oil
5. Kidnapped
6. All Tied Up

Uncle Jack accidentally gets hold of a formula for a lethal new gas being developed by the GasChem company, but MI5, the Russians and the Americans are after it and all request help from the World's smartest criminal, known only as the Vixen.

Series 2 (1991)

Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster

Episodes:

1. Sinister Happenings...
2. The Return of the Vixen
3. Operation Rescue
4. Terror In Edinburgh
5. Monsters Galore!
6. Countdown

Uncle Jack and his sister's family visit his cousin and his daughter, Tammy, in Scotland only to find that he has disappeared since he went fishing in his boat at Loch Noch and Tammy has been left at home on her own. Jack discovers that the marine base at the Loch is hiding something after also seeing a radioactive material that keeps appearing everywhere that ties in with the mystery of his cousin's disappearance. Meanwhile, the Vixen is up to her old tricks again and wants to use the radioactive material to terrorize the world.

Series 3 (1992)

Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon

Episodes:

1. Evil Weather
2. Kidnapped
3. The Vixen Strikes
4. Escape
5. The Vixen Has Landed
6. Off With His Head

When Uncle Jack visits Kate at her new school, he discovers the weather around Brimley Crompton is changing from one extreme to another with heat waves, sudden blustery winds and rain, as if someone is controlling the weather. That someone just happens to be the Vixen from her base on the moon using a standing stone in the school grounds with the help of the school headmistress, Miss Bones and her brother.

Series 4 (1993)

Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy

Episodes:

1. A Dig At El Ninny
2. The Camel's Breath
3. Meet The Mummy
4. The Legend Comes Alive
5. The Tomb Of El Wadi Whant
6. The Treasure Of Cleopatra!

Uncle Jack travels to Egypt with his niece Helen to find the lost treasure of Queen Cleopatra, but a mummy seems to be guarding it. The Vixen also wants the treasure and is determined to get to it first by any means necessary without anyone stopping her.

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References

  1. "BBC - Comedy - Guide - Uncle Jack..." 13 September 2004. Archived from the original on 13 September 2004.