A children's programme on BBC 1 around 1990 called 'Alphonso Bonzo', about an Italian dandyish sort of man who swaps magic things with a school kid?
2007-01-02 12:25:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
No it wasn't a rentaghost spin-off. It was based on a kid's book written in the 80s.
2007-01-02 12:29:34 · update #1
Yes he was. Then there was a spin-off series called Billy Webb's amazing stories, with a flying bike if memory serves. His dad was played by the chef in Fawlty Towers.
2007-01-02 12:41:16 · update #2
If you spell it "Alfonso Bonzo" you'll find loads of information about it.
Among other things, I found that there is a newly released book on amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alfonso-Bonzo-Andrew-Davies/dp/0439951755
An entry for the show at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462077/
A picture of Alex Jennings as Alfonso Bonzo: http://home.zonnet.nl/jhibels/jennings/id38.htm
A picture of the old (1986) Finnish version of the book: http://pandora.lib.hel.fi/lastensivut/kuvitus/alfonso.jpg
A list of the six episodes of the series: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/18912
A link to new and used copies of the book for sale, starting at $1.00USD: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=0&tn=alfonso+bonzo&x=0
etc.
Were you looking for anything in particular about the series or did you just want to reminisce with others about it?
2007-01-03 13:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Billy Webb's amazing stories --was a spinoff from it but i didn't see it sorry.
2007-01-02 12:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
was the school boy called billy webb?
2007-01-02 12:36:15 · answer #3 · answered by bastaad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
was that not a spin off from rent a ghost
2007-01-02 12:28:32 · answer #4 · answered by colin050659 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i remember, he he used to wear brightly coloured waist coats
2007-01-03 07:13:36 · answer #5 · answered by roxy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that sounds decidedly dodgy
2007-01-02 12:27:31 · answer #6 · answered by monkeynuts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2007-01-03 02:39:47 · answer #7 · answered by munchie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of it. Did you make it up?
2007-01-02 20:33:38 · answer #8 · answered by markhatter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't ..
2007-01-02 12:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by StarShine G 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋