To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Other television appearances in the 1980s and '90s included roles in Thames Television's The Bill and Central Independent Television's Inspector Morse, the short-lived comedy series Freddie and Max, with Anne Bancroft, a drama about homelessness, Sweet Nothing and another lesbian role, as Barbara Gale in the political satire Giving Tongue (1996). The episodes are: 'Marmalade Atkins in Space', 'Cringe Hill', 'The Convent of the Blessed Limit', 'Marmalade at Eton', 'Walkies', 'Marmalade at St Cecilia's', 'Marmalade in Venice', 'Nanny', 'Short Sharp Shock', 'The Nativity Play' and 'Marmalade at the Albert Hall'. Just thought I had to comment on this, since I never knew it was written by Andrew Davies, the man behind adaptations of 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and countless television classics like 'House of Cards', 'To Serve Them All My Days', 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma', as well as one of my all time favourite TV series, 'A Very Peculiar Practice'.

For some reason, our town library in the early 90s had a lot of novelisations of long-gone media properties - the original Grange Hill novels, Gregory's Girl, Lizzie Dripping and Marmalade Atkins. The way her dreadful parents fail to recognise the incredibly precious treasure that is their beautiful daughter is their loss and the audience's gain as Marmalade sails through all her hilarious adventures, creating havoc everywhere. The DVD includes the Theatre Box episode, "Marmalade Atkins in Space", which introduced the character, and all 10 episodes of the series. Children's comedy series, a sequel to EDUCATING MARMALADE, in which Marmalade Atkins, having left school, tries her hand at various jobs.Charlotte Coleman, in character as Marmalade Atkins, also had a stint as the Children's ITV presenter during April 1983. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. As she says to two weeping teachers in one of the episodes; ‘It’s your job to try and make me good – and it’s my job to be bad.

The whole thing started as a one off play for the Theatre Box series in 1981 (‘Marmalade Atkins in Space’ – included on the ‘Educating Marmalade’ set) which was a hyper-surreal outing featuring nuns with moustaches and astronauts who drove an old taxi into space. Quote from: jamiefairlie on January 27, 2022, 03:51:59 PMShe also starred in the P'twee version of Worzel Gummidge. The foreshadowing of Davies' " A Very Peculiar Practice" was nuns not behaving like nuns, and a certain element of surrealism.I suppose I do get into a bit of trouble at school but that's mostly because, although I enjoy going there, I'm not very good at it. I *think* the show was fairly faithful to the books but we're pre-dating my house having a VCR so this is all based on my memory of my memory - it's second-hand even to myself. Educating Marmalade' also starred the wonderful Charlotte Coleman from 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and the much underrated (did anybody else see it?

She's a rebel: we go to places like Eton, have a nanny, even hire a woman like Barbara Woodhouse and they all give up on her. One of my favourite episodes in this series was a parody of Fame, set at the New York School For Show-Offs And Big Heads, which featured some song and dance routines, and among the cast was Danny John-Jules (about five years before Red Dwarf), and future Blue Peter presenter Michael Sundin. Cheerfully describing herself as "the worst girl in the world," the troublesome Marmalade (played on television by Charlotte Colman) was the bane of the existence of every grown-up that crossed her path, especially her long-suffering parents. Glenfiddick (John Fortune), Marmalade continually gets expelled from school due to her disruptive behaviour. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.There seems to be all of Marmalade At Work on Youtube (some wrongly titled Educating Marmalade) but only clips of the original series. Created by Andrew Davies of ‘To Serve Them All My Days’ and ‘Bridget Jones's Diary’, Marmalade Atkins is, as described by herself, "the worst girl in the world”, a punkish youngster with lots of attitude.

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. Quote from: Alternative Carpark on January 27, 2022, 06:46:25 PMCharlotte Coleman, in character as Marmalade Atkins, also had a stint as the Children's ITV presenter during April 1983. This series definitely had a lot of amusing and anarchic moments, it was good seeing lots of guest stars joining in, and I enjoyed it a lot.

They seemed to be rather surprised by this, as if they thought that I knew about every 80s and 90s TV show, which is something I should be flattered by I suppose. Outside regular school hours she attended classes at the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington, north London, because she said she was "too cool" to go to the Brownies. I really liked the MA books, although the only plot I can remember now is when Record Breakers came to her school and everyone sang 'Record breaker!