Mr Majeika (Mr Majeika, 1)

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He later stated that he had wanted to retire after his spectacular hour-long shows had been cancelled and that the move to children's television was a "purely financial" arrangement. The Stanley Baxter Show ran between 1963 and 1971 on BBC One, and The Stanley Baxter Picture Show from 1972 to 1975 on ITV; the six-part Stanley Baxter Series was made by LWT in 1981. When the new teacher at St Barty’s flies in through the window on a magic carpet, Class Three realise they won’t be bored. the last four alongside James Robertson Justice, together with the animation The Thief and the Cobbler (1995).

Mr Majeika and the School Book Week (Mr Majeika, 9) Mr Majeika and the School Book Week (Mr Majeika, 9)

He thereafter astounds them with magical trickery which bring lessons to life, whether it is providing chips during dinner for all the children, or turning the nasty Hamish Bigmore into a frog for his insolence.

He wrote plays for radio and theatre and founded the children's drama group The Mushy Pea Theatre Company. Another book was The Inklings, but I know nothing about it other than it won the Somerset Maugham Award. Two further plays in this series were broadcast in 2013 with Geoffrey Palmer taking the Richard Briers role.

Mr. Majeika Series by Humphrey Carpenter - Goodreads

Moira accepted that he was gay and allowed him to bring men home for sex, [13] despite homosexual acts being illegal in England and Wales until the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 16 years after their marriage. In the first one, the children are intrigued by their new teature, except Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance, who has been getting his own way for far too long. As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what happens when Class Three's new teacher flies in through the classroom window and lands on the floor with a bump. Baxter guest-starred in an episode of The Goodies and later appeared in the lead role in Mr Majeika, developed from the books by Humphrey Carpenter, a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis (the wizard land) for failing his professional examinations.

Majeika and his class often could have got into trouble because of Mr Majeika’s magic, but his students really like Mr. A recurring character is Wilhelmina Worlock, a witch who first appeared as a music teacher and has turned up regularly since in various disguises.

At home materials Year 3 Week 1 to 4 - Herne Junior School

The resource pack includes the extract and all of the activities for the session, which the class are guided through via a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation. Other Mr Majeika stories include Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel, Mr Majeika Joins the Circus, Mr Majeika and the School Caretaker and Mr Majeika Vanishes.Baxter remained a great favourite on the Scottish pantomime circuit, especially at the King's Theatre, Glasgow, up until his retirement in 1992. This whole class reading session aims to develop children’s comprehension skills through a reading of the opening section of Humphrey Carpenter’s ‘Mr Majeika. the food they used to eat in school was dead toad with moss and stones and dead worms with a meatball on top. Humphrey Carpenter is a keen musician, who founded the jazz band Vile Bodies, which is still resident at the Ritz Hotel in London. This is possibly due to ongoing rights issues after the production company, TVS, dropped out of the ITV network in 1992 and subsequently went through a number of take-overs.

Mr Majeika - Penguin Books UK

In his biography, Baxter describes his discomfort with his homosexuality: "Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. His biography described how Baxter had told Moira that he was gay before they married, with Baxter having sought to end their relationship as a result, but that she had threatened suicide, causing him to relent. Five years before then, Baxter had been arrested for cottaging and contemplated suicide for fear of scandal causing an end to his career. Mr Majeika is the title of a series of children's books, written by Humphrey Carpenter and published between 1984 and 2006.The pupils in Class 3 at St Barty's School are not impressed when their headteacher imposes strict rules of behaviour for Halloween. In Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, taped for CBS in the UK just a few weeks before Crosby's death in 1977, Baxter played multiple roles, including a butler, cook and – in one skit opposite a cracking-up Crosby – the ghost of Bob Hope's court jester ancestor. He drops into the sleepy village of Much Barty, finding a post at St Barty's School as Class Three's new form-teacher, where he quickly befriends two of the children: Melanie Brace-Girdle and Thomas Grey. Majeika enters into his magic with reluctance, however, because he is trying hard to behave himself on Earth, and because the Worshipful Wizard of Walpurgis is keeping an eye on him from above.