The Magnificent Six and 1/2 to its predecessor, following the adventures of seven children (with very similar personalities to the "Six and 1/2" group) who used a double decker bus as their clubhouse. However, unlike "Six and 1/2", the television series was produced on a much higher budget, and often contained musical numbers. 20th Century Fox wanted a completely different cast for the television series, rather than the same cast from the "Six and 1/2" series, but nevertheless, both Brinsley Forde and Michael Audreson starred in the series. "The Double Deckers" made its American premiere on 12 September 1970, and its United Kingdom premiere on
Gerhard Forde of the negotiations that lead to the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In the lead issue of the "new series" of Lutheran Quarterly Forde provided a future view for American Lutheranism titled "Radical Lutheranism". Forde would continue to expound on the concept of Radical Lutheranism, most pointedly in his later book "On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518" and essays published in "A More Radical Gospel". Gerhard Forde Gerhard O. Forde (September 10, 1927 – August 9, 2005) was an American Lutheran theologian who wrote extensively on the Protestant Reformation and