The adventures of a boy doll who travels by rocket to Topsy Turvy Land where toys can walk, animals can talk and cream buns grow on trees.
AP Films/Pelham Films/Associated Rediffusion
Produced: 1958-59
First UK broadcast: 23rd February 1960
26 episodes x 13 minutes
Producer: Roberta Leigh
Director: Gerry Anderson
Director of Photography: Arthur Provis
Art Director: Reginald E. Hill
Music and Lyrics: Roberta Leigh
Music Arranged and Conducted by Barry Gray
| Episodes List | |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Pom-Pom And The Toys |
| 2 |
Topsy Turvy Land |
| 3 |
Torchy And Squish |
| 4 |
The Building Of Frutown |
| 5 |
Torchy And The Broken Rocket |
| 6 |
King Dithers |
| 7 |
Torchy Goes Back To Earth |
| 8 |
Bossy Boots Goes To Topsy Turvy Land |
| 9 |
Bossy Boots Is Taught A Lesson |
| 10 |
A Bell For A Penny Farthing |
| 11 |
A Trick On Pom-Pom |
| 12 |
Torchy Is Stolen |
| 13 |
King Dithers Loses His Crown |
| 14 |
Pilliwig Gets A Present |
| 15 |
Bad Boy Bogey |
| 16 |
Torchy And The Strange Animal |
| 17 |
Bossy Boots Forgets To Be Good |
| 18 |
Hungry Money Box |
| 19 |
The Naughty Twins |
| 20 |
The Twins Learn A Lesson |
| 21 |
King Dithers Goes Down To Earth |
| 22 |
Torchy Escapes At Last |
| 23 |
Torchy And The Man In The Moon |
| 24 |
Bogey And The Statues |
| 25 |
The Moon Falls Asleep |
| 26 |
Torchy's Birthday |
| 27 |
Series Two of Torchy The Battery Boy comprised a further 26 episodes produced by Associated British Pathe for Roberta Leigh. Gerry Anderson and AP Films were not involved in the production of these later episodes. Flopsy Goes On A Picnic Torchy Gets A Surprise Banana Bridge King Dithers And Daffy The Toys Get The Collywobbles Bogey Learns Another Lesson The Pollikan Bird Is Stolen Torchy Has An Accident Sparky The Dragon Bogey Is Naughty Again Pilliwig Cleans The Chimney Pongo The Pirate Pongo In The Goldmine King Dithers’ Birthday Washing Day In Topsy Turvy Land Gluebell Wood Squish Falls Down A Well Flopsy In Trouble The Big Storm Daffy’s Birthday Flopsy Makes A Christmas Pudding Gilly Golly In Trouble King Bumble Drop A New Suit For Pilliwig The Obstinate Donkey Pom-Pom Gets The Hiccups |
| Cast List | |
|---|---|
| Torchy | Olwyn Griffiths |
| Mr. Bumbledrop | Kenneth Connor |
| Flopsy | Jill Raymond |
| Bossy Boots | Jill Raymond |
| King Dithers | Kenneth Connor |
| Narrator | Jill Raymond |
| Other Voices | Olwyn Griffiths & Patricia Somerset |