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Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for Children's Hour on the Home Service. The plays were based on a set of puppets created by S. G. Hulme Beaman, who also wrote the stories for the series. The first Toytown plays were broadcast in 1929, and the pool of stories was re-used until the end of Children's Hour. There were 31 plays in all. During the 1970s, most of the plays were adapted as short films which were broadcast on ITV.

The series starred Larry the Lamb, the central character, and his clever sidekick, Dennis the Dachshund. In each story a misunderstanding, often arising from a device created by the inventor, Mr. Inventor, occurs which involves Ernest the Policeman, the disgruntled Mr Growser the Grocer and the Mayor.

During the early-1950s series on BBC Children's Hour, Larry the Lamb was always played (at least when broadcast from London) by Derek McCulloch, Dennis at various times by Norman Shelley, Ernest Jay and Preston Lockwood, the Mayor by Franklyn Bellamy and Felix Felton, Ernest the Policeman by Arthur Wynn, Peter Claughton and Stephen Jack and the Inventor usually by Ivan Samson.

The opening music was " The Parade of the Tin Soldiers" by Leon Jessel.

The first radio performances were as follows:

  • How Wireless Came to Toytown: 29 Nov 1929
  • The Sea Voyage: 27 Dec 1929
  • The Enchanted Ark: 2 Jan 1930
  • The Arkville Dragon: 30 Jan 1930
  • Larry the Plumber: 18 Feb 1930
  • Toy Town Treasure: 12 Mar 1930
  • The Great Toy Town Mystery! Who Was Guilty? 3 Apr 1930
  • The Extraordinary Affair of Ernest the Policeman: 1 May 1930
  • The Portrait of the Mayor: 6 June 1930
  • The Great Toy-Town War: 14 Oct 1930
  • The Disgraceful Affair at Mrs. Goose's: 14 Nov 1930
  • The Showing Up of Larry The Lamb: 9 Dec 1930
  • The Kidnapping of Father Christmas: 23 Dec 1930
  • The Babes in the Wood: 13 Jan 1931
  • The Start of the Treasure Hunt: 3 Feb 1931
  • In Which Mr. Growser's Worst Fears Are Realised: 19 Feb 1931
  • The Wreck of the Toytown Belle, part 1: 3 Mar 1931
  • The Wreck of the Toytown Belle, part 2: 19 Mar 1931
  • Toy Town Goes West: 31 Mar 1931
  • Mr. Noah's Holiday: 21 Apr 1931
  • Pistols for Two: 12 May 1931
  • Dreadful Doings at Ark Street: 9 June 1931
  • Disgraceful Doings in Ark Street: 1 Sept 1931
  • Frightfulness at the Theatre Royal: 22 Sept 1931
  • Golf (Toytown Rules): 13 Oct 1931
  • Tea for Two: 3 Nov 1931
  • Mr. Growser Moves: 1 Dec 1931
  • A Toytown Christmas Party: 22 Dec 1931
  • The Brave Deed of Ernest the Policeman: 2 Feb 1932
  • The Conversion of Mr. Growser: 23 Feb 1932
  • Dirty Work at the Dog & Whistle: 16 Aug 1932
Toytown (horse)

Toytown is a retired British event horse owned and formerly ridden by Zara Phillips.

Toytown is a chestnut gelding born in 1992, standing at 17 hh and with particularly distinctive markings including a white blaze and white spots. Toytown and Phillips competed together at the highest level of the sport until the horse's retirement in 2011, after accruing 1,421 British Eventing points in his career.

Toytown (disambiguation)

Toytown may refer to

  • Toytown, a BBC children's radio programme which later transferred to ITV
  • Toytown (horse), equine partner of Zara Phillips
  • Toytown Germany, an English-language community website for Germany
  • English shopping web-site for children; budget U.S. children's resource site
  • A nickname locals use for Poundbury, Prince Charles' model community
  • A sub category of 1960s British pop music
  • Toytown, the fictional town in the animated television series, Make Way for Noddy
  • Toytown is a Happy Hardcore song by Hixxy and Sharkey from 1995
  • Nickname used for Taunton mostly in the nightclub scene
  • A large landfill in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

Usage examples of "toytown".

It was a large, redbrick, eighties place, built on a roundabout in the middle of nowhere with toytown turrets and pastel-coloured Roman pillars in the foyer.

As I grandly cruised along the Bayswater Road towards Marble Arch this toytown threewheeler lurched out of track and bombed across my bows, heading for the clear inner lane.

Every now and then she glanced up from her book, and out across the quiet road at the toytown houses opposite.

I flew to Salzburg, a glittering toytown dominated by an eleventh-century fortress with a widely advertised torture chamber.

The village was like Toytown down below and beyond it the classically proportioned Skiddaw was bathed in sunlight.

I passed a newly erected mosque, its bright red brick and toytown minarets a sharp contrast to the grubby terraces that surrounded it.

Santa Fe was lit up, neat as toytown, its streets unnaturally deserted, as if all of its elderly residents had been taken away by friendly aliens.

Here the little toytown terminal contained a busy, frisky, jittery throng: multicoloured lovebirds massing ecstatically for the long flight south.

Featureless green toytown houses blinked in, marking the perimeter of the factory yard sixty metres away.

Developments are rearing up everywhere, condominiums, conurbations, the bleak toytowns formed by mobile homes.

Some distance down, on the opposite side of Lullaby Lane from Mister J's, was what looked like the shell of an old Toytown hotel-a soothing simulation of a real-world resting place designed for District tourists, a spot to receive messages and plan day trips.

Some distance down, on the opposite side of Lullaby Lane from Mister J's, was what looked like the shell of an old Toytown hotela soothing simulation of a real-world resting place designed for District tourists, a spot to receive messages and plan day trips.