The Clitheroe Kid - Another Mother for Ozzie (Part 1 of 3)

"Little" Jimmy Clitheroe as The Clitheroe Kid

The Clitheroe Kid was a long-running BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue in an un-named town in the north of England. Jimmy's best friend was Ozzie, alias Oswald Higginbottom, a character who was only heard of secondhand and didn't actually appear. The pilot show, pilot series, and 16 subsequent series totalled 290 episodes in all, broadcast between April 1957 and August 13, 1972.

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[VilaRestil]

I, too, used to listen to this series on British Forces radio, BFBS from Cologne, whilst stationed in West Berlin, with the RAF (1972-74).

According to the website JimmyClitheroe.co.uk the series began with a pilot show on the BBC Home Service in April 1956.

In the 1960s, Jim Casey and Frank Roscoe wrote this radio series, The Clitheroe Kid, for the BBC. At the same time, Ronnie Taylor wrote Jimmy's television series, Just Jimmy, for ITV. Jimmy C and Danny Ross starred in both.

[BandBoxParade]

@VilaRestil, we always enjoyed the NAAFI, the Jerboa and Gatow theaters, and the great officer's club that you Brits gave us access to. I worked on Teufelsberg, if that is familiar to you.

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Does any TV footage of this show survive?

[BandBoxParade]

@Strawberry7Lynn - Who said it was a TV show?

[BandBoxParade]

I got into The Clitheroe Kid when stationed in Berlin as an American Army officer ('68-'70). The show was broadcast on British Forces radio and we always listened on Sunday mornings. Thanks, Jimmy!

[dazzlingdavedainty]

i remember the tv show intro with him in a soap cart going down the street,theme tune was march of the mods

[jrg135]

Jimmy died in 1973 aged 51 and Danny Ross in 1976 aged 45, the BBC only has around 50 of the 300 programmes , most you find online are off air recordings made by fans of the show so the quality does vary, I used to go to many recordings of shows such as Round the Horne, The Navy Lark as I live in London, I never got a chance to go to The Clitheroe Kid as it was recorded in the Playhouse Theatre in Hulme, Manchester and the BBC would only send tickets if you lived in the area

[guygallagher410]

This is one "lying" video. =p

[john111257]

@Wilfslad i remember after family favourites..ah those days

[john111257]

reminds me of being a kid..no swearing..just fun...oh whats gone wrong..and im only 54

[rolandhensle24]

Your vid is a favorite on Iceland

[eddimoreau]

@BandBoxParade I remember it as a TV programme too!

[Wilfslad]

so it was evidently both TV and Radio. I remember it better from the radio, Sunday mornings?

[theseustoo]

@BandBoxParade Sorry mate, but you're wrong. 'The Clitheroe Kid' was also a TV show before the poor old bugger carked it. I distinctly remember it too... and I'm not Strawberry's dad!

Jimmy had a disease which prevented him from aging normally... aged nearly 80, he still looked like a 10-year-old boy; similar to (if not the same) disease that Gary Coleman ('Different Strokes') suffered from.

;)