Wanderly Wagon

Wanderly Wagon was an Irish educational children's television programme which aired on RT from 1968 until 1982. The show pioneered the use of puppets as television characters, before Sesame Street was created in the United States. Wanderly Wagon followed the human and puppet characters they travelled around Ireland visiting interesting locations. The original premise of the show expanded to follow the characters to magical lands of Irish mythology, and into outer space.

Characters

  • Rory - originally the lead character and played by acclaimed stage actor Bill Golden. Golden left the series in its later years.
  • O'Brien - a bumbler played by Eugene Lambert, who was also the puppeteer and ventriloquist for the animal characters.
  • Godmother - a sensible mother-figure.
  • Fortycoats - a shopkeeper. An occasional character who later had an eponymous spin-off show.
  • Mr Crow - a crow who lived in a cuckoo clock.
  • Foxy - a fox who lived in a barrel on the side of the wagon.
  • Judge - a dog, who also featured in televised road safety notices.
  • Four moon mice who lived in the attic.

External link

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
apollo (crater)
edward s. brown
center for cartoon studies
jeff hardenbrook
bishops cannings
appleton (crater)
robin weirauch
rathgar
fake orgasm
pukiwiki
michael spilotro
pete mccarthy
ed herman
julian asquith, 2nd earl of oxford and asquith
st. augustine's abbey, canterbury
robert lucas (21st century ohio politician)
larry a. kaczala
broad hinton and winterbourne bassett
frank v. cusimano
exodus (video game)
george h. scithers
panaiotis
norrbotten regiment
jackie chan's action kung fu
little ninja brothers
benedict
karol adamiecki
euromonitor
frank gaul
mutual
dietikon district
alvie self
emilio romagnolo
football in italy
soft dollar
benediction (band)
mutual of omaha
lubricated goat
hummingbirds (band)
ratcat
logic families
whirlywirld
curtis armstrong
ollie olsen