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What ever happened to the cast of "The Double Deckers"?

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SurreyGuy | 10:13 Thu 11th May 2006 | Film, Media & TV
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I remember watching it when I was a kid in the 70s.


I know that Melvyn Hayes was in it, so I'm not particularly asking about him. Also, I know that the black kid went on to be in the group The Real Thing. Whatever happened to the others?

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Here's some info about them...


http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/now.htm


Peter Firth (Scooper) is in Spooks http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0278752/


Gillian Bailey (Billie) http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0047271/


Brinsley Forde (Spring) was in Aswad among others http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0285941/


Michael Audreson (Brains) seems to have stopped acting http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0041634/


As has Douglas Simmonds (Doughnut) http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0799635/


As has Bruce Clark (sticks)


Debbie Russ (Tiger) http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0750889/


This series is long overdue for an official DVD release.
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Thanks guys. And I also realise that Brinsley Forde was in Aswad and NOT The Real Thing!

Definately long overdue! I would love to see it again although I am refusing to pay top dollar for the DVDs for sale on ebay (all recorded from tv/video).


When I was a kid I so wanted to be one of the gang!

I've often seen references to this programme but don't remember it at all , what sort of era was it?


galltin, the show was made in 1970 and shown on BBC1 for a good few years.


There are about 13 or 17 episodes altogether.


It was often repeated on Saturday mornings or weekday mornings during school summer holidays ( or so I seem to remember ), along with such favourites as Noggin the Nog, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Flashing Blade.

Why dont you!!

...just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead.


Remember it well electricblue.

Stay at home and watch tv


turn it off its no good for me,,,,,

Thanks for that tonymclark , so it was after my time ( the late 50's- sixties) but before my kids ( late 70's - eighties).


You guys should take a look at www.tv.cream.org for a trip down childhood lane! enjoy yourselves ;)
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electricblue.......................I saw on a prog a couple of weeks ago that Ant (from Ant and Dec) used to be a presenter on WDY!


I wonder if anyone else was on there and became famous?

Not a presenter, but the new Doctor Who's writer/producer Russell T Davies cut his teeth on "Why Don't You...?" It even got a mention in his Dennis Potter award intro at the recent BAFTA event.

just found this on the bbc doctor who site, about Russell T Davies.


Born at a young age in Swansea, Russell went to Olchfa Comprehensive School, then read English at Worcester College, Oxford. First job in TV was directing the kids on Why Don�t You � which I loved! I even cast a 12 year-old Ant McPartlin as one of the Newcastle Why Don�t You gang. Brilliant show to work on, I stayed for about 5 years, and working in Children�s was great � everything�s so cheap and cash-strapped, that you end up being trained in every single area of production, cos there�s no one else to do it.

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