Dramarama
Dramarama

Dramarama

1983 7 Seasons 91 Episodes ⭐ 7.3 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

Dramarama is the name of a British children's anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The series was created by Anna Home, then head of children's and youth programming at TVS, however production responsibilities were divided amongst most of the regional ITV franchise holders. Thus, each episode was in practice a one-off production with its own cast and crew, up to and including the executive producer. Dramarama was largely a place for new talent to prove themselves and was a launching pad for the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Paul Abbott, Kay Mellor, Janice Hally, Tony Kearney, David Tennant and Ann Marie Di Mambro. It was one of Dennis Spooner's last credits. One of Dramarama's episodes, "Dodger, Bonzo And The Rest", gained so much popularity that it was turned in to its own series the following year. It starred Lee Ross and was based around a large foster home. The episode "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night" was developed by Granada into the TV series Children's Ward. It was also repeated for the first time since its original broadcast on 5 January 2013, during CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend. The Series 7 episode "Back To Front" – notable for featuring a mirror image of the Yorkshire Television logo card at the end – was repeated on 6 January 2013, again as part of CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend.

Dramarama is the name of a British children's anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The series was created by Anna Home, then head of children's and youth programming at TVS, however production responsibilities were divided amongst most of the regional ITV franchise holders. Thus, each episode was in practice a one-off production with its own cast and crew, up to and including the executive producer. Dramarama was largely a place for new talent to prove themselves and was a launching pad for the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Paul Abbott, Kay Mellor, Janice Hally, Tony Kearney, David Tennant and Ann Marie Di Mambro. It was one of Dennis Spooner's last credits. One of Dramarama's episodes, "Dodger, Bonzo And The Rest", gained so much popularity that it was turned in to its own series the following year. It starred Lee Ross and was based around a large foster home. The episode "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night" was developed by Granada into the TV series Children's Ward. It was also repeated for the first time since its original broadcast on 5 January 2013, during CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend. The Series 7 episode "Back To Front" – notable for featuring a mirror image of the Yorkshire Television logo card at the end – was repeated on 6 January 2013, again as part of CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Mighty Mum and the Petnappers

EP 2

Rip It Up

EP 3

The Venchie

Matt begins a new job as a play worker for an adventure playground - a "venchie". Despite being warned that the kids the

EP 4

Jack and the Computer

EP 5

Because I Say So

When a boy is injured in a classroom fight, his teacher and headmaster try to get at the truth of what happened.

EP 6

Bully for Cosmo

Cosmo is being bullied in class by Sylvia after he refuses to take a note from her in the middle of a lesson. After a fi

EP 7

Messages

EP 8

The Young Person's Guide to Getting Their Ball Back

EP 9

Sweet Revenge

EP 1

Night of the Narrow Boats

EP 2

Fowl Pest

Chaos results when Amy gives her mother a birthday present of four chickens.

EP 3

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

When they overhear that their children's home may be closed, the youngsters hatch a series of plans, not all totally abo

EP 4

Que Sera

Fortune teller Rose is trying to teach young Stella the tricks of her trade when the new owner of the Pleasure Palace th

EP 5

Stalemate

EP 6

Snoop!

Colin Egan, a cub reporter, is sent on an apparently boring assignment. Events, however, soon take a dramatic turn.

EP 7

Mr. Stabs

Mr Stabs is summoned to the City of Shadows, where he must perform various heroic deeds in order to defeat the evil Pola

EP 8

Josephine-Jo

EP 9

The Purple People Eater

EP 10

On Your Tod

18-year-old Ben seems to have all the luck. In reality, he is bored and lonely - and it takes a gate-crasher at his part

EP 11

The Old Firm: Two for Starters

EP 12

Rachel and Rosie

Wheelchair-bound Rosie is waiting in hospital for an operation. When she has to share her hospital room with Rachel, a v

EP 1

Easy

Neil is a good footballer, but his father wants him to only develop his talent for the violin. But the concert of a grea

EP 2

The Coal Princess

EP 3

Look At Me

Two children, one deaf and one hearing, are brought together by an accident involving the deaf boy's beloved dog.

EP 4

A Young Person's Guide to Going Backwards In The World

Charlie is facing his exam and is suffering greatly under the pressure of expectations. Then the mysterious Mentora make

EP 5

The Audition

EP 6

The Universe Downstairs

Vincent and his parents move into an old house. When they hear noises coming from the cellar he goes down to investigate

EP 7

A Proper Little Nooryeff

EP 8

Frog

A satirical, political play as an enclosed garden represents the whole western world. Inhabiting the garden are various

EP 9

Private Eye

EP 10

Emily

EP 11

Silver

EP 12

The Golden Conch

EP 13

Purple Passion Video

EP 1

The Come-Uppance of Captain Katt

Ludo French stars in a sci-fi series, but working with the arrogant, conceited, always dissatisfied man pushes the produ

EP 2

A Couple of Charlies

A play about a neglected boy on a school pet day, this edition was awarded the Special UNICEF Prize at Prix Jeunesse, Mu

EP 3

Wayfarers

EP 4

Play Acting

EP 5

Last Days at Black Bert's

Things aren't looking good at the run-down hikers' hostel "Black Bert's." A health inspector has been announced, orderin

EP 6

Maureen Reid, Where Are You?

EP 7

Flashback

Film material from the Second World War is leaked to two young people. The film stars a schoolboy who obviously doesn't

EP 8

Direct Action

Young Dawn seems to lack perseverance in her jobs. Things seem to be going better at Helliwell's toy store until the bos

EP 9

Waiting for Elvis

In 1960, Elvis Presley returns to the USA from Germany by plane, and there will be a stopover in Scotland. That evening,

EP 10

Just a Game

A school quiz broadcast on the radio is a huge success until two students from a losing team realize that their teacher

EP 11

Flyaway Friend

Jennie is new at school, misses her father and has no friends. But there is her imaginary friend Tom, who has similar co

EP 12

Pig Ignorance

Little crook Darryl has to do community service on an inner-city farm. Most of the time he doesn't care about the work,

EP 13

Jessie's Place

A girl from a snobbish middle class family is desperate to break free, and ends up forging an unlikely friendship with a

EP 14

Frankie's Hat

Sonia travels from London to Oxford to make a Birthday visit to her sister Frankie who has moved away and started a fami

EP 1

Cannondrum

EP 2

Snap

Peter's dad reluctantly gives him a lift to some marshlands for a school photography project. Yet why is Peter able to s

EP 3

The Horrible Story

Bobby is given a tent from his uncle, and plans to sleep in it overnight with his friend Allan. Yet their plans are disr

EP 4

My Friend Julie

A story told entirely in song of the difficult friendship between two teenage girls who both love the same boy.

EP 5

The Creature Beyond Torches' End

Because his parents are constantly arguing, Henry takes his desire for adventure and dinosaurs into his own hands. He fo

EP 6

My Mum's a Courgette

EP 7

Brainwaves

Karen has enrolled on a communications course in a college for school underachievers. She spends her nights fantasising

EP 8

Undertow of the Armada

EP 9

Stan's First Night

In 1906, Stan Jefferson is given the chance to perform on stage for the first time ever at a theatre in Glasgow. The eve

EP 10

Living Doll

When Dawn's mother wants to work full-time, it leads to arguments between her parents. So, in her imagination, she creat

EP 11

Peter

Since the death of his father in the Falklands War, Paul has become increasingly withdrawn. One day, while fishing, he m

EP 12

The Halt

Football hooligans get their comeuppance when they find themselves abandoned on a deserted railway station where strange

EP 13

Mr Magus is Waiting for You

A repeat screening of a three-part "Middle English" story from 1986, repackaged as a single episode and presented under

EP 14

A Spirited Performance

Two boys stumble into a chaotic medieval film production and help out. But then they should look for a mystical sword.

EP 15

Badger on the Barge

EP 16

Badger on the Barge

EP 1

Forever Young

EP 2

The Macramé Man

EP 3

The Wrong Button

A school art class visits a noble country estate, with a disused fairground next door. At the same time, a devil-in-trai

EP 4

Bubbles

EP 5

Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night

Kim, a girl rendered deaf by an accident, has to return to the children's ward for a second time when the first operatio

EP 6

Big T for Trouble

Jackie's outrageous lies always get her into trouble, but she can't escape her job as a bridesmaid in pink.

EP 7

Room for One More

EP 8

Making Waves

EP 9

Just a Normal Girl

Sandy is left paraplegic as a result of a car accident, but finds courage through meeting other disabled children.

EP 10

Now You See Them

EP 11

Bogeymen

New neighbours in the street - a scary thing for four children, because the newcomers are from the West Indies. Their wi

EP 12

The Alien

EP 13

The Secret of Croftmore

A teenage Scottish boy named Calum Gillies, who does not want to leave his beloved Croftmore in the Highlands to move to

EP 14

The Bubblegum Brigade

EP 15

Playing for Wales

EP 16

Snap Decision

Tennis playing schoolboy Peter is anxious over an upcoming tournament. When his wheelchair-bound and photo-obsessed youn

EP 1

Codzmorf

A father spends a Saturday turning household objects into live animals, things go wrong when he transforms himself and h

EP 2

Ghost Story

EP 3

Badger

EP 4

Back to Front

We all know that mirrors take real life and reflect it back to us the other way. But what if the mirror's world goes bey

EP 5

Monstrous

A friendly and familiar group of monsters, witches and ghostly figures live and work in a "Tunnel of Horror" at the fair

EP 6

The Pisces Connection

EP 7

Rosie the Great

Once learned their island is free from British rule, the leader sought ways of getting the island on the map, until a re

EP 8

Snakes and Loofahs

Three girls set up a neighbourhood watch, but their "cases" soon annoy the police. But the discovery of a constrictor an

EP 9

Just Wild About Harry

EP 10

Mitchin

Two boys skip school aka "mitchin" one boy is hiding from something curious

EP 11

In the Pink

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