Here Come the Double Deckers

1970
Here Come the Double Deckers

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Tiger Takes Off Sep 12, 1970

Tiger accidentally goes for a trip on a hovercraft Brains created.

EP2 The Case of the Missing Doughnut Sep 19, 1970

Doughnut eats an invisibility formula Brains invented.

EP3 Get a Movie On Sep 26, 1970

The gang make a film to enter a contest.

EP4 Star-Struck Oct 03, 1970

The gang are chased around Elstree Studios, as they look for a lost dog.

EP5 Happy Haunting Oct 10, 1970

Albert takes them to a stately home for a day out.

EP6 Summer Camp Oct 17, 1970

They camp in a field with a middle aged couple who get the worst of it.

EP7 The Pop Singer Oct 24, 1970

The group try to launch The Cool Cavalier's pop career with a disco.

EP8 Scooper Strikes Out Oct 31, 1970

Scooper is knocked out by the baseball and dreams he is with Alice in Wonderland.

EP9 The Go-Karters Nov 07, 1970

A biker sabotages the group's go-kart, so Spring ends up in court after a high speed police chase.

EP10 Robbie the Robot Nov 14, 1970

Brains invents a robot which is sent to rescue Tiger's tiger from a neighbors garden.

EP11 A Helping Hound Nov 21, 1970

The gang unsuccessfully try to help a woman decorate her house, but a lost dog comes to their aid.

EP12 Invaders from Space Nov 28, 1970

Men in spacesuits are advertising a new sweet called Planet 7, but the gang think it is an alien invasion.

EP13 Barney Dec 05, 1970

Barney is a one-man band who keeps getting moved on by the police.

EP14 Man's Best Friend Dec 12, 1970

The gang put on a show with aluminium foil as an entry fee to buy a guide dog for the blind.

EP15 United We Stand Dec 19, 1970

The owner of the yard that the gang use wants to turn it into a car park, but the kids sabotage his meeting with the Mayor.

EP16 Up to Scratch Dec 26, 1970

Billie has to look after a dog named Scratch which runs off after a man with a flea circus turns up.

EP17 A Hit for a Miss Jan 02, 1971

The boys fall for substitute teacher Miss Petit, which makes Billie jealous, and help her put on a show for an old folks home.
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Released: 12 September 1970 Ended
Producted By: BBC
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/
Synopsis

Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970-71 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused works yard.

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bigfooteee99 Man I had such a crush on her. I seem to remember that it came on in my area at the time on Sundays at 11AM. I would get ticked if the minister ran a little long, or my folks wanted to stop and visit after the service. Gilli was so much cooler than the 'dumb girls' that I went to school with. Of course in 1970 I was 9, and she would have been 15, so there you go. She could sing, dance, hang out with the guys and not be obnoxious. Looked up her photo on the fan site and found that she matured to a good looking though not overwhelming beauty. Couldn't find any pictures in between DD times and now though. Thanks for the memories. A 10 for those.
spike1-2 IMDb claims Pat Coombs only appeared in one episode, but she actually appeared in two. "Happy Haunting" where the gang go to a stately home was the first."United We Stand" in which a developer wants to turn their yard into a car park is the second. (I think she was the caretaker's wife or housekeeper in happy haunting and the secretary of the developer in united we stand)I've just seen them all again (after 20 or more years and they're still brilliant. If a little dated now.Bet if you showed them to kids today though, they'd still like it.I agree with the other poster, it's well deserving of a repeat.
Huw Nathan "The Double Deckers" was a highly popular comedy series which was televised by the BBC on Saturday mornings. There was the attractive use of good natured banter as a group of friends were able to 'go and do their own thing'. It was outright escapism and for viewers such as myself who were under ten years old in age, it was a welcome delight to meet up with our friends. We used to identify with the characters. The cast were good and individually they still linger in one's memory. The songs and dance routines were light hearted and I guess that with the hindsight of a certain nostalgia, this has become a cult classic. Several of the actors have grown older and have progressed to successful adult acting careers.
richard.fuller1 Seven kids hang out in a junkyard with an abandoned double decker bus; Brains, the brainy one; Doughnut, the obese one; Spring, the Black one; Scooper, the leader (was he?); Sticks, the drummer; and two girls, Billie and the young girl named Tiger, as she carried around that stuffed tiger toy. There seemed to be more adventures with trying to retrieve the tiger toy than anything else. One episode, Doughnut dreamt he ate an invisible formula. Another involved a chocolate factory and a gun that shot out candy pieces. The gun was set on a radiator and later when fired, it spewed chocolate sauce all over the bad guys. My brother and I still can sing the fat ladies song, but I don't for the life of me recall what that one was about. There was a teacher all the boys fell in love with and saw as his ideal woman; Doughnut saw her as a chef, Brains as a scientist and so on. Billie sees her as a witch. One of the wildest adventures for me was that camping mishap when it started to rain and everyone climbed into the car and knocked the car out of gear. The only one who didn't get wet was Albert, who I take it was the adult who usually accompanied the kids on their adventures. Albert was asleep under the wagon. Very similar to what I have seen of the 'Carry On' movies in the UK, Double Deckers must have been a juvenile version. Nevertheless we never missed it when it aired. We loved this show.