Alphabet Castle was an educational children's television program produced in the UK. It began in September 1993 with a series of 27 episodes aired on ITV Carlton, and ran until December 1995 and later shown on CBeebies and the CITV Channel in 2006 and 2007. It had three main characters: King Alpha, Queen Bet, and Gobbledygook, an animated turkey. It starred Stephen Cannon and Joanne Campbell

Joanne Campbell

Joanne Campbell was a British actress and drama therapist best known for playing Liz in the 1980s sitcom Me and My Girl and Josephine Baker on stage in This Is My Dream.-Career:...

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A total of three series and 65 editions were produced, by Michael Cole productions. Like its near namesake, Alphabet Zoo

Alphabet Zoo

Alphabet Zoo is a series of ten minute programmes for young children, produced by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV for two series in 1983 and 1984. It was presented by singer Ralph McTell and actress Nerys Hughes...

, a decade earlier, each episode was dedicated to a letter of the alphabet

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...

 (although this format was dropped for the final series); episodes were generally around 10 minutes in length, and were broadcast in CITV

CITV

CITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...

 on Wednesday afternoons.

Transmission guide

• Series 1: 30 editions from 10 September 1993 - 28 March 1994
• Series 2: 20 editions from 7 September 1994 - 25 January 1995
• Series 3: 15 editions from 6 September 1995 - 13 December 1995

External links

• Alphabet Castle at the Internet Movie Database
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