Children's Film Foundation - The Magnificent 6 and a Half

Screening in British cinemas between 1968 and 1972, there were three series of these short B-movies for kids, though only the first two were made by the CFF. Those comprised 12 episodes. Regrettably (perhaps!) I have only been able to find 8 of them.

From series 1 (1968): “Ghosts and Ghoulies” (New gang members Whizz and Peewee's spooky initiation dare,) “Kontiki Kids” (The gang build a raft to ferry them across a canal but struggle to ferry the raft /to/ the canal,) “Bob-a-Job” (The gang make collections for the youth club,) and “Peewee's Pianola” (The gang find a pianola and try to take it to junkyard. But it runs away, with Peewee trapped inside it...)

From series 2 (1969): “Peewee Had A Little Ape” (Toby is mistaken for an escaped circus ape,) “A Good Deed In Time” (The gang try borrow a ladder from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window with, er, hilarious results,) “It's Not Cricket” (chaos as the kids try to get their cicket ball back) and The Astronoughts [sic] (Whizz makes a spacecraft and they all blast off – apparently...)

The Magnificent Six and a ½ series was created by Harry Booth and Roy Simpson who, in the early '70s took, the concept to television in what became the series, “Here Come the Double Deckers.”