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WORZEL GUMMIDGE SEASONS 1-4 Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is a walking, talking ecrow that lives on Scatterbrook Farm, where he stands in Ten Acre field. He was made by The Crowman and he is able to convince other people that he is human. Worzel has a collection of different heads for his different moods and he lives with his Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), a giant doll , also able to pass as a real person. Worzel befriended children John and Susan Peters who came to stay during the holidays on the Braithwaites fram. Worzel lands John and Susan in trouble when he is being mischievous, as he goes into a sulk and becomes a normal lifeless ecrow. This lead others to blame the two children for all the trouble Worzel causes. Worzel Gummidge originally appeared in a series of books by Barbara Euphan Todd. The series ran for 4 seasons on ITV bteween 1979 and 1981 and immediatley became a cult classic A CUP O TEA AN A SLICE O CAKE Wily old Worzel looks destined to spend a cold christmas alone in Ten Acres field when The Crowman bans him from ecrow celebrations because he deserts his post. However, Worzel does not stay put for long and as he searches in the snow for Aunt Sally to invite to the ecrow Ball, he meets his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor) travelling on a pirate ship to star in pantomime. He is challenged to a hilarious sulking contest by a belligerent Scottish ecrow, Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) who, with his men, is heading back up north because he hates christmas. Worzel eventually wins his reprieve from The Crowman and joins in the festive frivolity and fun of the ecrow Ball. Now fully restored from the original film negative, get to see this classic Christmas Special in its full glory once again! WORZEL GUMMIDGE DOWN UNDER SEASONS 1-2 Worzel and Aunt Sally continue their comic adventures in New Zealand. Aunt Sally ends up on display in an antiques shop in England. She is bought by a folk museum curator from New Zealand and she is sent down there to appear as an exhibit. Worzel pursues her as an aeroplane stowaway, where he has to avoid the clutches of the evil travelling ecrowmaker. The show ran for a further 2 seasons totalling another 22 episodes, with the first series being written by the original writers Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The show also gave Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) his first ever film job doing the special effects!