- King Rollo
King Rollo was a children's character created by
David McKee in1979 , starring in a series of books, animations (narrated by Ray Brooks), and acomic strip in the magazine "Buttons". In all, thirteen episodes of the animation were produced in1980 , by McKee's own "King Rollo Films ".The central character of the stories was Rollo himself, a child-like King who was always in need of advice and assistance from his friends. Among these were "The Magician" (a father figure) "Cook" (the king's cook, a mother figure, who was arguably the real ruler of the kingdom); his neighbour, "Queen Gwen"; the royal magician; "King Frank"; and perhaps most importantly, Rollo's cat, "
Hamlet ", who was generally portrayed as wiser than Rollo himself.The animations used the same distinctive colourful cut-out paper look as McKee's other works, such as
Mr Benn , and one memorable aspect was that the characters' legs would rotate outwards when walking until they were at right-angles at the sides of their body.Episode Listing
*The Bread
*The Playroom
*The Bath
*The Dishes
*The New Shoes
*The Breakfast
*The Tree
*The Comic
*King Frank
*The Birthday
*The Balloons
*The Search
*The DogExternal links
*imdb title|0080237
* [http://www.toonhound.com/kingrollo.htm Toonhound]
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