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Rentaghost and Worzel to make a comeback

Rentaghost and Worzel to make a comeback
  • Posted at 3:51pm
  • 25 September 2008
  • by JackSeale-RT
  • 8 comments

Children's shows to be remade

Classic kids' programmes Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge are on their way back. Production giant RDF has bought the rights to both, and thinks they can be "reworked for a modern audience". But in this day and age can Rentaghost still get away with a camp jester named Mr Claypole? And will today's youngsters find it any less disturbing than we did when Worzel pulls his own head off?

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  • Posted on 22 December 2008
  • at 2:37am
  • by Fred Mumford

Rentaghost rules! The kids nowadays (including mine) are spoon fed LOL

  • Posted on 28 September 2008
  • at 6:20pm
  • by Nick

Woo Hoo....! I have been humming the Rentaghost theme for like 20 years! Can't wait to permanently infect my son with this classic! You can't compare Rentaghost to some of the tripe on children's TV these days!

  • Posted on 28 September 2008
  • at 1:48am
  • by Ian Smith

Rentaghost COULD work, but it would need to be handled very carefully. As for Wurzel, no no no! Jon Pertwee was and always will be Wurzel and no one else will do.

  • Posted on 27 September 2008
  • at 10:05pm
  • by suebev

If they remake "Rentaghost" I do hope they keep the same theme tune and the same sound effects for when the ghosts disappear/reappear!

  • Posted on 26 September 2008
  • at 9:22pm
  • by Bass

Maybe they should get Sean Pertwee to fill his dads shoes

  • Posted on 26 September 2008
  • at 7:14pm
  • by Dobbin

...Rentaghost rocks, what childrens program today has a plot that is as free minded as this one was. For any seventies child, growing up on rentaghost and Worzel - coupled with fizzy drinks and sweets with more band substances and e-numbers you could shake a stick at and playgrounds you could hurt yourself in... It couldn't be more different today than the nanny state culture we live in now. I say bring it on!

  • Posted on 26 September 2008
  • at 2:15pm
  • by rog

i agree....... the original worzel rules! Aunt Sally etc!

  • Posted on 26 September 2008
  • at 1:36pm
  • by Nightcrawler

Noooooooooooooooo! You can NOT remake Worzel Gummidge! Jon Pertwee is Worzel Gummidge.

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