The Bash Street Kids has had a number of spin-offs, including "Pup Parade", "Simply Smiffy", "Plug" and "Singled Out". "The Bash Street Kids Annual", previously known as "The Bash Street Kids Book" and published biannually, is published in August. Summer specials, with solo stories of each character, were also published during the 1990s and were a forerunner to "Singled Out". Most were drawn by Tom Paterson, who later drew the "Singled Out" strip. From 1968 to 1972 "The Beano" ran a similar series, "The Belles of St. Lemons". "The Dandy" has had two similar series: the 1970s "Whacko" (about a teacher who taught in
The Bash Street Kids number of locations. Plug is a playable character in "Beanotown Racing" for the PC, and the school is a race track. Robert Harrop has designed figures, statues and ornaments based on "The Bash Street Kids". A target-practice game featured the characters, and a McDonald's Happy Meal toy set included a number of the kids. The Bash Street Kids The Bash Street Kids is a comic strip in the British comic book "The Beano". The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as "When the Bell Rings", first appeared in issue 604 (dated February 1954). It became "The Bash Street Kids" in 1956