The alien teacher Mr Majeika was played by well known British comedian/impressionist/actor Stanley Baxter. He's now retired but still hail and hearty, as a recent tribute programme revealed. Andrew Reed played Thomas Grey in series 1 and 2. Simeon Pearl played Hamish Bigmore. These are the two boys with the largest roles. Sanjiv Madan also played a largeish part in series 3. Claire Sawyer played Melanie Brace-Girdle. These are the children commonly appearing in the shool uniforms. Beacom, Brian (7 November 2020). "Stanley Baxter: Actor's secret gay life – and the woman who paid the price". HeraldScotland.

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Beacom, Brian (21 May 2016). "Showbusiness great Stanley Baxter on recording a new show for BBC". The Herald . Retrieved 1 November 2020. Is the new teacher, Mr. Majeika, responsible for peculiar goings-on at St. Barty's School? When your teacher is a wizard, anything is possible--even the improvement of school dinners. The excentric teacher at St. Barty's, a British prep school, shows up in a very unusual manner. Mr Majeika, of course, is not ordinary teacher. Mr. Majeika is in fact a magician from the planet Walpurgis teaches who is posing as a teacher. In effect a failed Wizard turned teacher. He has been a wizard for years and has forgotten most of his spells, so he wants to be an ordinary teacher and asks three boys to help him. But Mr Majeika always forgets that he is no longer a wizard anymore. He does, however, try very hard to be a good teacher. Mr Majeika finds a number of ways to deal with pesky Hamish Bigmore and his friends, he turns them into different animals--but this has a variety of complications. Mr. Majeika and his class often could have got into trouble because of Mr Majeika’s magic, but his students really like Mr. Majeika and wants him to teach them next term as well.

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Oldie Camper of the Year – For continuing to endear and delight his audiences with original comic material by The Oldie magazine (2008) [16] The uniform that the boys used was an actual 1980s prep school uniform. The cast wore the uniforms of of a local school. They used the uniforms without permission, buying the clothes locally second hand. I'm not sure what the school thought about that. A boy at the school relates that the headmaster at the school was not at all happy about this and apparently tried to sue the producers, apparentky without success.

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Mr Majeika is a warm, funny and inventive story for children aged 8 to 11 to read in the classroom or at home. It is also praised by parents as a bedtime story for younger children. Mr Majeika is the title of a series of children's books, written by Humphrey Carpenter and published between 1984 and 2006. It was adapted into a children's television series of the same title and produced for the ITV network by TVS. The show aired between 1988 and 1990 and starred Stanley Baxter as Mr. Majeika. [1] The stories have also been broadcast on radio. Figure 1.--"Mr. Majeika" features children in their prep school uniforms during the 1980s. The boys and girls wore a destinctive purple stripped blazer. The boy in the picture was a mischevious character called Hamish. The first book proved very popular and it became a notableular series in Britain. Some of the books in the series included: Mr. Majeika and the Music Teacher, Mr. Majeika And The Haunted Hotel, Mr. Majeika and the School Play, Mr. Majeika and the School Book Week, Mr. Baxter sought to maintain the secrecy around his sexual orientation, with his biography describing how he had taken legal action over the posthumous publication of Kenneth Williams' diaries after Williams, a long-time friend, died in 1988. [13] In his biography, Baxter describes his discomfort with his homosexuality: "Anybody would be insane to choose to live such a very difficult life. There are many gay people these days who are fairly comfortable with their sexuality, fairly happy with who they are. I’m not. I never wanted to be gay. I still don’t." [15] Awards [ edit ]After the war, Baxter returned to Glasgow taking to the stage for three years at Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre. Following success on the radio with Jimmy Logan, Howard & Wyndham Ltd invited him to star in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow followed by the Half Past Eight Shows, and their successors the Five Past Eight Shows at Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. [2] [3] He moved to London to work in television in 1959.

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principal boy involved is about 11 or so. All the boys at school wear proper grey shorts. In one scene they have a Cub outing. Dreadful stories but children are usually featured. In one the good Dr. takes a properly dressed Cub troop on an outing. At this time, however, HBC know little about the program. We believe it was primarily a children's program. Stanley Baxter played the title role of Mr Majeika. Andrew Reed and Simeon Pearl played the two boys that appeared in prep school uniforms. We almost wonder if this series did not help inspire Harry Potter. The focus of these stories is Mr. Majeika, a teacher at St Barty's Primary School; a typical English primary school. However, he is no ordinary man, as is apparent when he flies into Class Three's boring lesson on a magic carpet, which he then turns into a bicycle, confounding the headmaster: Mr Majeika is a wizard!Mr Majeika is the first of 15 books published between 1984 and 2006. Some of the stories were adapted into a children’s television series starring Stanley Baxter which ran on ITV from 1988 to 1990. The stories have also been broadcast on radio. Readers interested in British preparatoty schools may want to look at the book and e-Books available through Apertures Press. These publications provide a great deal of information about the schools. This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. ( April 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Baxter guest-starred in an episode of The Goodies and later appeared in the lead role in Mr Majeika, developed from the books by Humphrey Carpenter, a children's show about a magic teacher, expelled from Walpurgis (the wizard land) for failing his professional examinations. He later stated that he had wanted to retire after his spectacular hour-long shows had been cancelled and that the move to children's television was a "purely financial" arrangement.