When it comes to weirdness, you can’t beat kids show Get Up and Go! and its follow-up show Mooncat and Co. The premise was simple: a talking cat from the moon comes down to Earth and moves in with the shows’ host, Stephen Boxer. Together with a variety of other people – Beryl Reid in Get Up and Go! but Pat Coombs, Kenny Lynch, Wilf Lunn and others in Mooncat and Co – Boxer would educate Mooncat in human ways.
Get Up and Go! ran for three series before Reid was offered a job in a major ITV drama series, so her character moved out and the show became Mooncat and Co, which ran for another two series.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
