Fez-wearing Ali Cat was an apprentice magician and cohort of ventriloquist
    Ray Alan in this children's magic show from HTV West.

    The show featured a grab bag of budding youngsters keen to show off their
    magical talents, and joining them were a host of established stars and
    celebrities, pop group and singers such as Ali Bongo, The Wurzels, The
    Weltons, Nola, Flintlock, actor Michael Holloway and actress Pauline Quirke.
    The series had the full support of its namesake "The Magic Circle" , and it
    was first broadcast around the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in July 1977.

    Ray Alan is famous for bringing us Tich and Quackers in the 1960s,
    Micky the Martian, and for his hinjinx with Lord Charles - an eccentric, tipsy
    aristocrat with a monocle, whose facial design was apparently based upon
    that of Stan Laurel. As a writer, Ray also wrote scripts for the 1961 sitcom
    "Bootsie and Snudge". Sadly, Ray died in 2010.
         
    Fans of Ali Cat could get to grips with still more magical mumbo-jumbo via
    "Ali Cat's Magic Circle Book of Tricks" (Look-in Books./ Arrow Books.)

    And if you're looking for a modern Ali Cat equivalent you should check out
    Billy Nibbles, the rabbit who juggled magic and mirth on "The Animal Magic
    Show"....

          

 

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