Scratchy & Co.

Scratchy & co.
Genre	Children's Entertainment
Starring	Ronni Ancona Elliot Henderson-Boyle Mark Speight
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	72
Production
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	75 to 105 minutes (including adverts)
Production company(s)	Mentorn for Central
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV Network (CITV)
Picture format	4:3
Original run	6 May 1995 (1995-05-06) – 25 April 1998 (1998-04-25)

Scratchy & co. was a CITV show, which was broadcast at certain periods from 6 May 1995 to 25 April 1998, which replaced What's up, Doc? as the Saturday morning ITV show.^[1]

Premise

Scratchy & co. starred Elliot Henderson-Boyle as "Reg" and Mark Speight as "Scratchy". Other characters included Annabel and a Scottish girl, both played by comedian and impressionist Ronni Ancona. The main gimmick of the show was that the cast wore "solid rubber wigs" (not to be confused with the character of "Sam the Lift" in CBBC's Incredible games) and eccentric jackets. A stylistic similarity might be noted between this approach and Max Headroom.

Later series introduced other characters such as Sedgely the penguin and Fathead the football.

Later on, the series moved away from the original Max Headroom-esque style, into a studio where Scratchy (now minus the rubber wig) sat behind a desk, with Reg behind a window. At this point, guests were invited into the studio and interviewed. However, most of the characters which had been introduced earlier were dropped.

Gail Porter was a frequent guest presenter in the third and the fourth (final) series.

The show was nominated for a BAFTA.^[2]

Transmission guide

References

External links

• Sat7Kids