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Agaton Sax

AMIABLE ENOUGH cartoon serial about a bowler-hatted, moustachioed detective (and some sort of police constable sidekick). KENNETH WILLIAMS did the voices. No record of whether, like WILLO THE WISP, show was popular “with the navies”.

4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Ken Shinn

    May 19, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    The only Agaton Sax cartoon that I remember was very loosely based on the novel Agaton Sax And The Criminal Doubles (with Julius Mosca and Octopus Scott, and their innocent look-alikes Absalom Nick and Charlie MacSnuff). Just one of a series of rather good children’s detective spoofs by Swedish author Nils Olof-Franzen. Several of the Sax tales, illustrated by – who else? – Quentin Blake, had previously turned up on Jackanory, with Williams again doing the reading honours.

  2. Richard Davies

    November 4, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    I remember seeing that one as well.

  3. Marc Ricketts

    February 15, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    I was searching for Agaton Sax on You Tube. But it wasin,t in English. I just wonder when it will happen.

  4. THX 1139

    August 2, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    When the BBC showed the Kenneth Williams-voiced cartoon, they cut off the opening titles to each episode. Now YouTube reveals why: Agaton Sax appears COMPLETELY NAKED in them. Those funny Swedes!

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