Educating Marmalade - The Complete Series

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She's a rebel: we go to places like Eton, have a nanny, even hire a woman like Barbara Woodhouse and they all give up on her. A hair-raising teenage rebel, Marmalade made her TV debut in the one-off Marmalade Atkins in Space broadcast in 1981 as the first of a new anthology series – Theatre Box. Coleman's final television appearance was in the adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's Double Act, where she played the twins' teacher, Miss Debenham. Other early work included A Choice of Evils ( Play for Today, BBC, 1977) and Two People ( London Weekend Television, 1979), as Emma Moffatt).

I know Charlotte Coleman was the star (later in Four Weddings and a Funeral and the sitcom, How Do You Want Me? Quote from: Rizla on January 27, 2022, 04:04:25 PMI have it in the same mindbracket as "Seaview" starring pre-Blue Peter Yvette Fielding, perhaps because she also caused "feelings". Coleman went on to star in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a ground-breaking BBC drama series about one girl's power to overcome neglect and often violent prejudice, as well as the hit movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. It is a tribute to her character that Marmalade triumphs over the awfulness of her life with such wonderful humour and a smiling, positive attitude. We will publish your review of Educating Marmalade - The Complete Series on DVD within a few days as long as it meets our guidelines.For those like me who didn’t see it first time round but who have an interest in TV from this period, it provides many insights (was that a Dracula board game she has in her room? Cecilia's School for Girls, Marmalade encounters the ghost of the first headmistress and investigates the mystery of the missing tuck.

She embraced the role of Marmalade wholeheartedly, and possibly felt something of an affinity with the character. This series lacked the satirical edge of the first, being a bizarre, hyperactive pantomime that saw Marmalade join the army and the police force (providing a sly cameo for ex- Z Cars actor Stratford Johns). episodes were made altogether (and were a Thames production for ITV) and they have all been released on DVD by Network, the only extras included though are photo galleries.Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman.

The nannies who reared Britain's ruling classes were also rendered as grotesques: "give them all a smack on the B. After I discovered that both series had been released on DVD, I thought that I might as well give it a try. The series spawned a brace of spin-offs, including Marmalade Atkins in Space (in which her parents, at their wit's end, bundled the girl into a rocket ship bound for the far reaches of the universe!From Eton to the Convent of the Blessed Limit to Dartmoor, Marmalade remains impervious to discipline - to the constant despair of her parents, hapless social worker Mrs Allgood, and child psychologist Dr Glenfiddick. Quote from: Alternative Carpark on January 27, 2022, 06:46:25 PMCharlotte Coleman, in character as Marmalade Atkins, also had a stint as the Children's ITV presenter during April 1983.

A number of guest stars were also cast to type, so you got Z Cars / Softly Softly favourites Stratford Johns and Windsor Davies as two hard-nosed cops, Windsor Davies as an army sergeant major. Her wild behaviour has seen her expelled from virtually every school she's attended, and this fondly remembered kid's sitcom sees her causing further mayhem at a range of educational and correctional establishments.Based on Frederick Grice's 1969 novel, The Courage of Andy Robson, about a young boy who is uprooted from his life in the pit community of Easington, in 1910, when his father is killed in a mining accident. Despite the efforts of her parents (John Bird and Lynda La Plante), social worker Mrs Allgood (Gillian Raine) and child psychologist Dr. At 15, feeling that her upbringing had been too liberal, since her parents "didn't believe in restraint", Coleman enrolled at Dartington Hall School in Devon.