Gadzooks! Timothy Claypole could be making a comeback with a cake-obsesses scarecrow in tow. RDF Media, the production company behind Wife Swap, has bought the rights to ’70s kids comedies Wurzel Gummidge and Rentaghost.
Rentaghost, written by Bob Block, was a slapstick-led romp in which a variety of ghosts set up a business hiring out their haunting prowess. Or at least that’s how it started. Through its 60-episode run it seemed to morph instead into a show about how trouble the spooks could cause their boss, Mr Meeker. In an age where we’re warned about TV dumbing down, we should never forget that the height of comedy in this show was a pantomime horse getting a pie in the face. Primary spooks including Jester Timothy Claypole, Hazel the MacWitch and Mrs Popov, who would vanish when she sneezed.
