Iain Petrie | Torchy the Battery Boy (1959) in colour. 18) "The Hungry Money Box". Gerry Anderson & Roberta Leigh @IKP1000 | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Director: Gerry Anderson
Writer: Roberta Leigh
And also featuring the wonderful Kenneth Connor's voice as the King, and as Pongo. I had the pleasure of chatting with him a pub in High Wycombe in 1987, and he was a lovely unassuming and quietly-spoken man.
All episodes were in black and white of course but I'm working my way through colourising Series 1 using Deoldify and with some further enhancements in PowerDirector 10.
"Clinker is overjoyed to discover an enormous pile of coins that no one requires in Topsy Turvy Land, but Pongo the pirate decides to claim them for his own. Torchy uses his magic lamp to find a gold mine, which turns out to be empty. Fortunately for Clinker, on the grounds above, a money tree has bloomed". (Wikipedia)
Director: Gerry Anderson
Writer: Roberta Leigh
And also featuring the wonderful Kenneth Connor's voice as the King, and as Pongo. I had the pleasure of chatting with him a pub in High Wycombe in 1987, and he was a lovely unassuming and quietly-spoken man.
All episodes were in black and white of course but I'm working my way through colourising Series 1 using Deoldify and with some further enhancements in PowerDirector 10.
"Clinker is overjoyed to discover an enormous pile of coins that no one requires in Topsy Turvy Land, but Pongo the pirate decides to claim them for his own. Torchy uses his magic lamp to find a gold mine, which turns out to be empty. Fortunately for Clinker, on the grounds above, a money tree has bloomed". (Wikipedia)
