“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.
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…
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.
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.