Uncle Max

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Uncle Max
Format	Children's comedy
Starring	David Schneider (as Uncle Max) & William Howe (as Luke)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Producer(s)	Little Bird Pictures
Running time	15 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CITV (on ITV1) (repeated CITV Channel March 2006 & December 2007)
Status	Acquired by CBBC (January 2008, broadcast BBC One)

Uncle Max is a British television series that initially aired on CITV and, since January 2008, has been transmitted by CBBC on BBC One. It stars David Schneider as the Uncle Max and William Howe as Luke, Max's nine year-old nephew. The show is very similar in style to Mr. Bean, with the basic premise that Uncle Max can't go anywhere without upsetting somebody in some way.^[1]

Filmed during a seven-week block in the summer of 2005, the show was written by David Schneider himself and 13 episodes were made and subsequently transmitted on CITV and the CITV Channel in 2006. Schneider himself admitted in an interview for The Times that parts of the series are references to Laurel and Hardy, but the majority of the footage is in tribute to the cartoons Schneider grew up watching: Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo and Wacky Races. He also stated that the name of the Uncle is from his own Uncle Max, Max Ward, who grew up in Hastings and now lives in Hackney, London. Of his own Uncle Max, Schneider says that he used to get into all sorts of scrapes and adventures and would take the young David along for the ride.^[2]

The programme contains very little spoken audio at all, instead vocal noises (such as gasping, grunting and a bit of broken vocal) similar to the type of voice Rowan Atkinson gives Mr. Bean in the animated series and the CITV show aimed for deaf children, Zzzap!. It is made by Little Bird Pictures and marketed as a silent comedy.^[3]

[edit] List of episodes

List of episodes with original transmission details on CITV. ^[4]

• Uncle Max Goes Camping (01/03/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes to the Dentist (28/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes Bowling (27/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Walks the Dog (24/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes Flying (23/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes to the Arcade (22/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Buys some Shoes (21/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Plays Golf (20/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Washes his Clothes (17/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Runs a Race (16/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes to the Cinema (15/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Looks after the Baby (14/02/2006)
• Uncle Max Goes for Pizza (13/02/2006)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Uncle Max at the Internet Movie Database
• Little Bird productions - Uncle Max
• Making of Uncle Max at broadcastfreelancer.com