9. Rosie And Jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDuNh_Rw6Y Aired on CITV from 1990-2000, Rosie and Jim was produced by Rag Doll Productions. Rosie and Jim were two freaky looking puppets who lived aboard a barge boat named The Ragdoll. Together with their friend Duck, and the boat's owner, they travel the waterways of England. The owner thinks that Rosie and Jim are inanimate dolls. However, every time he docks the boat, Duck gives a whistle and Rosie and Jim spring to life and follow the boat's owner with assorted misadventures and capers that flummox the boat owner. Throughout the series, quite nauseatingly, Rosie and Jim begin to love one another. Like so many of these programmes, I can still remember the theme song. But by the time Rosie and Jim came along I was too old to derive any pleasure from it, except for bowdlerising the song - "Rosie and Jim! Rosie and Jim! Shagging along in the old Ragdoll!". They were plain weird looking puppets. Gave me the creeps.
Clare Simpson
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
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