"Come on and meet the Little Green Man
    and Zoom-Zoom..."
  

   Sydney Keets is a lucky lad. He's best friends with a Little Green Man from
   outer space, whom he calls "Greenie". He's also friends with Greenie's buddy
   Zoom-Zoom, a hovering yellow ball of electricty. Greenie and Zoom-Zoom
   landed their spaceship in Sydney's back garden one day, and their interstellar
   friendship was born.

   Greenie likes to gabble and run words together, so he refers to Sydney as
   "Skeets". He wants Sydney to teach him and Zoom-Zoom about the world,
   which he's more-than happy to do. But there's an iddy-biddy twist here,
   revealed in the theme song:

   "Nobody has to see them,
    only you and me..."

   Yep. You got it. Greenie is akin to an imaginary friend, because he and
   Zoom-Zoom are invisible to everyone else but Sydney, which opens the door
   to much confusion and diversion, as you can guess...

   A shoestring production, certainly, with restricted animation but "The Little
   Green Man" overcomes its financial restraints thanks in the main to an
   inspired gabbling voice-over from the late Jon Pertwee, who of course
   excelled at that kind of thing (witness Worzel Gummidge...)

     

 

     episode titles

     The Visitor from Space                Help for the Duke
     There's No Fun Like Snow Fun       A Bicycle Made for Three
     Up, Up and Away                        Monkey Tricks
     Greenie Thro' the Looking Glass     Skeet's Scarf
     A Trip to the Cricus                    Adventure in Space
     A Fishy Tale

 

     director:       Matthew Smith
     producer:     Matthew Smith
     writer:          Matthew Smith
     title music:   Matt Flowers-Smith
     arranger:      Ray Chester, Hugh Finnigan
                        sung by the children of
                        Trinity Comprehensive School, Nottingham.
     animation:   Martin Chatfield, Andy Wagner
     b'grounds:   Martin Hazelgrave
     rostrum:      Arthur S Johns, Jeremy Moorshead
     editor:         David Hamilton Jones
     sound:         Peter Walters
     voices:        Jon Pertwee

 

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       Little Gems
       A fab page here from those Big Knights with plenty of screen grabs,
       theme WAV and info....

 
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