Roy Barraclough in cult comedy Pardon My Genie DVD, intro and first scene.

Pardon My Genie - Series 1 DVD is out now.

http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=975

Aimed at a young audience but hugely popular with children and adults alike, Pardon My Genie was devised and written by future Roberts Robots and Rentaghost creator Bob Block.

When a young shop assistant called Hal Adden casually tries to polish an old watering can -- well, you can guess what happens! But the genie who appears is as rusty as the can he lives in; he's four thousand years old, and his magic doesn't always work as well as it should...

Ellis Jones plays Hal, with Roy Barraclough (Sez Les) starring as his long-suffering boss, hardware shop owner Mr Cobbledick, and Hugh Paddick (Round the Horne) as the Genie. This first series of the memorably quirky comedy series, screened in 1972, is available on DVD for the first time.

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[spinswasher]

fantastic remember it when i was young !!!!!!

[AuntyM66]

Yes , remember Mr Cobbledick.

[probro9898]

I remember this show well. I loved it as a kid, but things like this never seem the same as you remembered them.

[americandiscocrash]

is this that tv show where the astronaut lives in coco beach and he keeps getting shit-faced on g and t's, which always winds him up in the craziest of predicaments, but he imagines some genie causing the predicaments? i think his name was hal. j.r. of mulligan's stew was in it.

[sah10406]

Camp as knickers

[sonicavenga]

Hal always used to remind me of Freddie Mercury ;D)

[CorduroyAngel]

Hal has a definite resemblance to Todd Rundgren!

[verysmallclock]

I've just gone and bought this off ebay. About £13. I'll let you know what I think. 

[DidloDurante]

Network do a great job of releasing archive tv, but some shows are best forgotten...from what I've seen of this kids show, it is truly desperate stuff.

[Euadam]

My ex used to go out with Roy Baraclough