Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. This series definitely had a lot of amusing and anarchic moments, it was good seeing lots of guest stars joining in, and I enjoyed it a lot. Marmalade remained a total menace and every week she would have a different job such as a chef, spy, air stewardess and so on. The whole thing started as a one off play for the Theatre Box series in 1981 (‘Marmalade Atkins in Space’ – included on the ‘Educating Marmalade’ set) which was a hyper-surreal outing featuring nuns with moustaches and astronauts who drove an old taxi into space. Davies revels in lampooning the education system - from the yobbish Cringe Hill (a spoof of Grange Hill (BBC, 1978-)) to public schools all too ready to take a bribe from Marmalade's wide-boy father.

Children's comedy series, a sequel to EDUCATING MARMALADE, in which Marmalade Atkins, having left school, tries her hand at various jobs. Marmalade first appeared in the book Marmalade and Rufus in 1979, and the character was later brought to television in 1981 in which she was played by the actress Charlotte Coleman. Not long after I started doing this blog, someone contacted me and asked if I was planning to review Educating Marmalade. Cheerfully describing herself as "the worst girl in the world," the troublesome Marmalade (played on television by Charlotte Colman) was the bane of the existence of every grown-up that crossed her path, especially her long-suffering parents.For the second series, Danger: Marmalade at Work, the bad girl was sent on a succession of work experience schemes by the wet liberal social worker Wendy Wooley. Charlotte Colman, who used to be Sue in Worzel Gummige, is soon to appear in the title role of Thames TV's Marmalade Atkins.

Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. After a successful pilot in the anthology series Theatre Box, the first series, Educating Marmalade, took a sideswipe at 'mealy-mouthed do-gooding' social workers who try to make Marmalade conform by sending her to a variety of schools. Glenfiddick (John Fortune), Marmalade continually gets expelled from school due to her disruptive behaviour. Along with the books, there were also some annuals released in the 80s that celebrated “television’s horrible heroine”. Coleman went on to star in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a ground-breaking BBC drama series about one girl's power to overcome neglect and often violent prejudice, as well as the hit movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.The episodes are: 'Marmalade Atkins in Space', 'Cringe Hill', 'The Convent of the Blessed Limit', 'Marmalade at Eton', 'Walkies', 'Marmalade at St Cecilia's', 'Marmalade in Venice', 'Nanny', 'Short Sharp Shock', 'The Nativity Play' and 'Marmalade at the Albert Hall'. They seemed to be rather surprised by this, as if they thought that I knew about every 80s and 90s TV show, which is something I should be flattered by I suppose. Like its titular heroine, the series seemed dumb and brash at first, but possessed a real spark of intelligent wit.

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Other television appearances in the 1980s and '90s included roles in Thames Television's The Bill and Central Independent Television's Inspector Morse, the short-lived comedy series Freddie and Max, with Anne Bancroft, a drama about homelessness, Sweet Nothing and another lesbian role, as Barbara Gale in the political satire Giving Tongue (1996). The series spawned a brace of spin-offs, including Marmalade Atkins in Space (in which her parents, at their wit's end, bundled the girl into a rocket ship bound for the far reaches of the universe!

Looking at the cast as well as the people mentioned above it also featured Brian Glover, John Fortune, Julia Sawhala, Joan Sims, Max Wall, Lynda Bellingham and Kathy Burke. The two series have been released by Network as single disc sets containing all episodes from each series respectively. Mrs Allgood (Gillian Raine) was replaced by Wendy Wooley (Elizabeth Estensen - who developed a progressively more elaborate nervous twitch as each episode passed) and poor Mrs Atkins had a complete face change when Carol Macready replaced Lynda Marchal. She’s sassy, confident and cool, generally finishing all her sentences with the word ‘cock’ (short for cockney I guess) acceptable then as a cheery working class endearment. Marmalade was an extrememly naughty and mischevious girl - rather like a female Dennis the Menace in many ways.