Dramarama is the name of a British children's anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The series was created by Anna Home, then head of children's and youth programming at TVS, however production responsibilities were divided amongst most of the regional ITV franchise holders. Thus, each episode was in practice a one-off production with its own cast and crew, up to and including the executive producer. Dramarama was largely a place for new talent to prove themselves and was a launching pad for the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Paul Abbott, Kay Mellor, Janice Hally, Tony Kearney, David Tennant and Ann Marie Di Mambro. It was one of Dennis Spooner's last credits. One of Dramarama's episodes, "Dodger, Bonzo And The Rest", gained so much popularity that it was turned in to its own series the following year. It starred Lee Ross and was based around a large foster home. The episode "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night" was developed by Granada into the TV series Children's Ward. It was also repeated for the first time since its original broadcast on 5 January 2013, during CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend. The Series 7 episode "Back To Front" – notable for featuring a mirror image of the Yorkshire Television logo card at the end – was repeated on 6 January 2013, again as part of CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend.
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Orignal shown as part of the series "Theatre Box" but later added to the "Dramarama" series.
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Matt begins a new job as a play worker for an adventure playground - a "venchie". Despite being warned that the kids there are hooligans, Matt believes they just need to be given a chance and understanding
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When a boy is injured in a classroom fight, his teacher and headmaster try to get at the truth of what happened.
Cosmo is being bullied in class by Sylvia after he refuses to take a note from her in the middle of a lesson. After a fight almost breaks out, the teacher calls in Cosmo's father and Sylvia's mother to attempt to resolve things.
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Chaos results when Amy gives her mother a birthday present of four chickens.
When they overhear that their children's home may be closed, the youngsters hatch a series of plans, not all totally above board, to raise money to keep it open.
Fortune teller Rose is trying to teach young Stella the tricks of her trade when the new owner of the Pleasure Palace threatens her professional existence with his future business plans. Clairvoyance is urgently needed, but maybe one of…
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Colin Egan, a cub reporter, is sent on an apparently boring assignment. Events, however, soon take a dramatic turn.
Mr Stabs is summoned to the City of Shadows, where he must perform various heroic deeds in order to defeat the evil Polandi, and ultimately face mortal, magical combat with Melchisedek.
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18-year-old Ben seems to have all the luck. In reality, he is bored and lonely - and it takes a gate-crasher at his party to force him to acknowledge his problems.
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Wheelchair-bound Rosie is waiting in hospital for an operation. When she has to share her hospital room with Rachel, a very different girl with a more streetwise outlook, Rosie must learn to deal with Rachel's prejudices towards her.
Neil is a good footballer, but his father wants him to only develop his talent for the violin. But the concert of a great virtuoso changes everything.
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Two children, one deaf and one hearing, are brought together by an accident involving the deaf boy's beloved dog.
Charlie is facing his exam and is suffering greatly under the pressure of expectations. Then the mysterious Mentora makes him a tempting offer: he can simply pass. But the pact takes him to a fantastical world, to the "Mouth," behind…
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Vincent and his parents move into an old house. When they hear noises coming from the cellar he goes down to investigate and finds a whole new world, Cosmos, with its own unique people.
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A satirical, political play as an enclosed garden represents the whole western world. Inhabiting the garden are various animals who speak directly to the viewers in rhyme and song, including a frog who has stolen all the water.
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Ludo French stars in a sci-fi series, but working with the arrogant, conceited, always dissatisfied man pushes the production to its limits.
A play about a neglected boy on a school pet day, this edition was awarded the Special UNICEF Prize at Prix Jeunesse, Munich.
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Things aren't looking good at the run-down hikers' hostel "Black Bert's." A health inspector has been announced, ordering a committee to close the place down. On top of that, everything is about to fall apart-but perhaps the new waitress…
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Film material from the Second World War is leaked to two young people. The film stars a schoolboy who obviously doesn't belong there. Who is the boy and when did this happen?
Young Dawn seems to lack perseverance in her jobs. Things seem to be going better at Helliwell's toy store until the boss orders the same Christmas music to be played for months. Since everyone is dissatisfied, Dawn organizes a staff…
In 1960, Elvis Presley returns to the USA from Germany by plane, and there will be a stopover in Scotland. That evening, the paths of six people cross in the waiting lounge, each with a different hope for this event: a journalist, a fan,…
A school quiz broadcast on the radio is a huge success until two students from a losing team realize that their teacher is helping the competition. Proving the cheating and convincing their teachers and parents proves difficult. And the…
Jennie is new at school, misses her father and has no friends. But there is her imaginary friend Tom, who has similar concerns. But is he really imaginary?
Little crook Darryl has to do community service on an inner-city farm. Most of the time he doesn't care about the work, but when the owners have to sell the only pig for lack of money, his attitude changes.
A girl from a snobbish middle class family is desperate to break free, and ends up forging an unlikely friendship with a younger working class boy
Sonia travels from London to Oxford to make a Birthday visit to her sister Frankie who has moved away and started a family. But Frankie takes the opportunity to make up for her lost youth, much to the younger girl's distaste.
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Peter's dad reluctantly gives him a lift to some marshlands for a school photography project. Yet why is Peter able to see a mysterious hooded figure at the site, but it's unseen by his dad?
Bobby is given a tent from his uncle, and plans to sleep in it overnight with his friend Allan. Yet their plans are disrupted by Bobby's younger brother Christopher tagging along, so they try to scare him away with a "horrible story".
A story told entirely in song of the difficult friendship between two teenage girls who both love the same boy.
Because his parents are constantly arguing, Henry takes his desire for adventure and dinosaurs into his own hands. He follows the path under his bedclothes into a fantastic world.
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Karen has enrolled on a communications course in a college for school underachievers. She spends her nights fantasising about a rebellious classmate, but her epilepsy causes her problems fitting in with the rest of her class.
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In 1906, Stan Jefferson is given the chance to perform on stage for the first time ever at a theatre in Glasgow. The events of this night set Stan on a path that will eventually lead to becoming the Stan Laurel we know and love of Laurel…
When Dawn's mother wants to work full-time, it leads to arguments between her parents. So, in her imagination, she creates the perfect couple out of her dolls. Or so she thinks.
Since the death of his father in the Falklands War, Paul has become increasingly withdrawn. One day, while fishing, he meets a strange boy named Peter who challenges him.
Football hooligans get their comeuppance when they find themselves abandoned on a deserted railway station where strange things happen and voices make arrival announcements for trains that never come.
A repeat screening of a three-part "Middle English" story from 1986, repackaged as a single episode and presented under the Dramarama banner.
Two boys stumble into a chaotic medieval film production and help out. But then they should look for a mystical sword.
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A school art class visits a noble country estate, with a disused fairground next door. At the same time, a devil-in-training causes chaos among the visitors. But a rascal student can see him and brings his two best friends for a ride.
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Kim, a girl rendered deaf by an accident, has to return to the children's ward for a second time when the first operation fails. Whilst there, she befriends a boy who is immature on the outside, but has a good hear
Jackie's outrageous lies always get her into trouble, but she can't escape her job as a bridesmaid in pink.
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Sandy is left paraplegic as a result of a car accident, but finds courage through meeting other disabled children.
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New neighbours in the street - a scary thing for four children, because the newcomers are from the West Indies. Their wild imagination brings them to break into the neighbours court.
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A teenage Scottish boy named Calum Gillies, who does not want to leave his beloved Croftmore in the Highlands to move to Edinburgh, receives assistance from the ghosts of his distant relatives.
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Tennis playing schoolboy Peter is anxious over an upcoming tournament. When his wheelchair-bound and photo-obsessed younger brother begins to attract more attention from his girlfriend, Peter's bitter resentments come to the surface.
A father spends a Saturday turning household objects into live animals, things go wrong when he transforms himself and his son has to retrieve the spell book for the reverse spell
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We all know that mirrors take real life and reflect it back to us the other way. But what if the mirror's world goes beyond the pane of glass?
A friendly and familiar group of monsters, witches and ghostly figures live and work in a "Tunnel of Horror" at the fairground. On this day, an envious authority wants to close the fairground and sends its employees out.
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Once learned their island is free from British rule, the leader sought ways of getting the island on the map, until a researcher informed them the island is really a monarchy under the control of their local girl Rosie.
Three girls set up a neighbourhood watch, but their "cases" soon annoy the police. But the discovery of a constrictor and a strange burglar soon change that.
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Two boys skip school aka "mitchin" one boy is hiding from something curious
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