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Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School is a BBC Television show broadcast from 1952 to 1961. It was based on the Greyfriars School stories, written by author Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards.
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School: With Gerald Campion, Jack Melford, Julian Yardley, Kynaston Reeves. Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard, failing to turn up for cricket, and even being threatened with expulsion.
- (49)
- 1952-02-19
- Comedy
- 30
Billy Bunter's stockbroker father, knowing it's a half-holiday at Greyfriars, sends his secretary to the school to take Bunter and the Famous 5 on a countryside drive. The secretary never arrives and Mr Bunter's car is discovered abandoned. He's taken 5000 pounds from the safe!
William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940.
At a time when young children were enthralled by Andy Pandy, their older siblings were tucking into the adventures of Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School. The serial was one of the first successes from the fledgeling BBC Children’s Department at the tiny Lime Grove studios .
Season 6. 1960 • 2 Episodes. Season 6 of Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School premiered on July 16, 1960. Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard, getting six of the best from Mr Quelch, failing to turn up for cricket, scuffling with the ...
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Bunter's identical cousin Wally takes his place at Greyfriars, and his out-of-character behaviour causes surprise and confusion all round. Rate.
