Here Come the Double Deckers addition, future "Double Deckers" cast members Brinsley Forde and Michael Audreson were among the stars of "Six and a Half", and Melvyn Hayes appeared in a few episodes. "Six and a Half" also featured several gags and plotlines that would later be reused in "Double Deckers". Here Come the Double Deckers Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970 to 1971, revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused junk yard. A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and the television
Brinsley Forde a deejay on a South London reggae soundsystem. Forde presented VH1 "Soul Vibrations", BBC's "Ebony & Ebony" on the road, and was one of the radio presenters to open the BBC's first digital station 6 Music with his radio show "Lively Up Yourself" and "Dub Bashment". Forde can be heard presenting the radio documentaries "Behind The Smile: The Real Life of Bob Marley" and "Island Rock" to mark the 40th anniversary of Jamaican independence. A two-time Grammy Award nominee with Aswad, Forde scored a British number one chart hit with "Don't Turn Around" in 1988, followed by another top 20