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Country of origin United Kingdom Running time 75–105 minutes Original network ITV Network (CITV) Final episode date 25 April 1998 Language English | 7.1/10 IMDb Original language(s) English Production company(s) Mentorn for Central First episode date 6 May 1995 Number of seasons 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Ronni Ancona
Elliot Henderson-Boyle
Mark Speight Genres Entertainment, Children's television series Similar Ghost Train, UP2U, What's Up Doc?, Gimme 5, The Saturday Starship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scratchy & Co. was a British children's entertainment show that aired on ITV on Saturday mornings from 6 May 1995 to 25 April 1998.
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" 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.
