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“TIME CAME to grow a bit, grow a bit, grow a bit.” Oh, for the love of. Awful, awful kid’s chromakey whimsicality, masterminded by, of all people, PAUL “COUNTERWEIGHTED DOOR” DANIELS. Title thing was a three-foot cone that “did” magic, aided a giant mute rabbit. Collectively they battled some evil bastard or other, who lived inside a giant floating fist, guarded by VICKY LIQUORISH. There was also a “squidgy bog”. “His daddy then told him, told him, told him…” Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Tom Ronson

    October 25, 2022 at 6:33 pm

    Paul Daniels still gets a credit in the programme for the West End juggernaut The Phantom of the Opera for his part in the special effects. So there’s that…

  2. Richardpd

    November 6, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    Weird but fun from what I remember, Paul Daniels somehow found the time to do this when the Magic Show was still popular & Every Second Counts.

    There were plans for a reboot in the 2010s, but this only got as far as some storybooks.

  3. Sidney Balmoral James

    November 6, 2023 at 10:49 pm

    Rather mean review of what was, after all, a programme intended for little children. You might as well say that Chorlton and the Wheelies lacked grit. Daniels gets a free pass anyway, for having Hans Moretti on his programme.

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