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Tickle on the Tum

“TICKLE ON THE WHAT?” Overweening whimsy for small children set in the shop of a stereotypical English hamlet (called Tickle) and touched by the string-picking hand of singer RALPH McTELL. A different professional character (postman, teacher etc) dropped by each week for the usual song ‘n’ story treatment. The milkman was played by KENNY LYNCH.

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Lee James Turnock

    May 4, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    And Bill Oddie made regular appearances as Doctor Dimple.

  2. Paul Bovey

    June 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    I remember having an audio version of this, featuring the likes of Penelope Keith, as the school bus driver, attempting to retrieve the bus keys from a magpie and Joan Sims, as the WPC, removing a boy’s stuck head from between the park railings with the aid of a peanut butter sandwich.

  3. Richardpd

    March 27, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    Fairly watchable from what I remember, the later episodes had a puppet mascot character for no obvious reason other than to follow the trend set by too many cartoons in the 1980s.

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