Andy Pandy and Ben', all having a similar format-filmed marionettes, there was also an animated drawn character called 'Busy Lizzy' incorporated into the "Picture book" series. All the filmed black and white 1950s original transmissions were narrated by Maria Bird, who was to become a co-producer, with Freda Lingstrom, who worked for the BBC. Bird was a prolific writer of books for the very young, notably Andy Pandy, but it was for her distinct BBC English" enunciation that she is best remembered. A marionette who lived in a picnic basket, Andy was later joined by Teddy, a teddy bear, and Looby Loo,
Children of the Damned in "The New York Times" in late January 1964 considered it: "a dull, pretentious successor to that marvelous little chiller of several seasons ago, "Village of the Damned". What a comedown." On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 75% based on , with a weighted average rating of 5.6/10. "Time Out" called the sequel a "fairly intriguing and atmospheric exercise in science fiction." Children of the Damned Children of the Damned is a 1964 British black-and-white science fiction horror film, a thematic sequel to 1960's "Village of the Damned", which concerns a group of children with similar