JENNY HANLEY is a bonnie
lassie who most UK viewers likely
best-recall from THAMES TV show
'MAGPIE', when she took over from
SUSAN STRANKS. She was doubt-
less in a number of other things as
well, but I don't recall even one of
them. How about you Crivs?
Magpie! I still remember that theme song. And her. Don't remember what happened on the show however....
ReplyDeleteShe was in the Hammer film Scars of Dracula (1970), which I bought on DVD not too long ago. It also has Patrick Troughton as Dracula's hideous middle-aged servant who falls madly in love with her. I kind of identified with him.
ReplyDeleteIt was ITV's equivalent of the BBC's Blue Peter show, Phil. If you remember that, Magpie was pretty much the same.
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Now that you've reminded me, Andrew, I inevitably remember the film and her appearance in it. Sometimes we just need that little prompt, eh? Stunning looking lass. And I assume that you identify only with Patrick Troughton's character's longing for her, and not with the appearance of the hideous, middle-aged individual he was playing?
Hot pants and diaphanous dresses, Kid :-)
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, Norman. That was when women dressed in a womanly way, not something that they always do today.
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