More Pastry Please !

[Mr Pastry Time]

What we need on TV today is More Mr Pastry ! With such a massive archive why do we have to sit through more & more extra extras or the extra episode of Eastbenders and Corporation Street me wonders?

More Pastry please.....

[David Brent]

I used to love Mr.Pastry when I was a kid in England.



Is there ANY Mr.Pastry archive material?

It would be good to see those custard pies flying around again.



Dave.

[Ady]

That's a good question that you should know the answer to, MrPastryTime! - Is there a Pastry Archive ? - Well, Mr Pastry time, answer in the affirmative or hand back that avatar !!

It was the first show that I felt belonged to me and my age group, back in the 60s ( I'm 47 ) ( eek! )

The BBC website has this:



Leave It To Pastry

UK, BBC, Children's sitcom, b/w, 1960

Starring: Richard Hearne, Dorothy White, Ronnie Raymond

Number of episodes: 4 Length: 25 mins

14 May-4 June 1960, Sat 5.25pm

Cast

Richard Hearne - Mr Pastry

Dorothy White - Jill Connors

Ronnie Raymond - Buster

Margot Boyd - Mrs Trench

Crew

Woodhouse Hugh - Writer

Hoare Ken - Writer

Johnny Downes - Producer



Incidentally, do you know what Ronnie Raymond ( see photo HERE ) is doing now ? I can find no trace of him.



Bring back Pastry !

Ady.

[Mr Pastry Time]

He is prob selling meat pies on Bolton market along with the rest of us X child actors.... EE

[Ascoyne D'Ascoyne]

What was the children's TV show that Mr Pastry hosted where the kids competed in various action games? I remember one boy who fell over and started to cry being consoled by Mr Pastry's telling him that he ought to have received some of the knocks that he had had in his career if he really wanted something to cry about!

[Mr Pastry Time]

A little about how I got into Mr Pastry.

So many of the old stars get put to one side. Time marches on as they say, but like many I love the old ones the best. I do collect films on film itself, so was handed a short of Mr Pastry some time ago. As often happens one thing led to another, and I now even find myself going 600 miles round trip twice a gear to tend Richard Hearnes grave and pop flowers on it. Over the last few years I have got to know a number of people who knew Richard or worked with him and this has been most interesting. Some footage has been passed to me for my little private archive, and although I am unable to copy these due to copyright some Britmovie Pastry fans have met with me to view on a porta DVD player. These are very much a hard core of fans who are as barmy as me and willing to travel to chat about this great old star over a cake and brew. That about explains where my own interest in Pastry, or should I say Richard Hearne stems from.



It was muted that a film screening and lecture would take place in 07 and I was asked to come as Mr Pastry (a pale shadow of the real man). This will come together I am sure, and I will post news as and when it all comes about. If anyone would like to lend a helping hand in this please feel free to drop me a personal message with your details and I will keep on file should you so wish.



For now Richard Hearne is over due for a screening on TV, but with todays programmers I think little chance of this......



He gave so much pleasure to many and I think that counts for something in todays world.

[MikeA]

name='Mr Pastry Time']What we need on TV today is More Mr Pastry ! With such a massive archive why do we have to sit through more & more extra extras or the extra episode of Eastbenders and Corporation Street me wonders?

More Pastry please.....

Yes, it's strange how he's been completely forgotten when he was such a staple of childrens' lives - my own included. Times change, I suppose, although I'm sure many youngsters today would enjoy his antics.



Fascinating to hear how you developed your interest in him, and even more fascinating to read on the IMDB that at one point he was considered as a successor to Jon Pertwee for Doctor Who! Mr Pastry as Doctor Who - now, that would have been worth seeing!

[Moor Larkin]

name='MikeA'] it's strange how he's been completely forgotten

Oh No He Hasn't!! ..............

Mr. Pastry

[MikeA]

name='Moor Larkin']Oh No He Hasn't!! ..............

Mr. Pastry

Fair enough - not completely forgotten then, that's good.



I think when I watched his TV series as a child at Saturday teatimes this was the first time I was aware of Dandy Nichols, who was a regular in at least one series.

[billy farmer]

Here is a link to the East Anglian Film Archive where you can see Mr Pastry (Richard Hearne) opening a store and raising money for charity in my home town of Aylsham, Norfolk in 1960 - http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/130036 http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/115997

I wasn't there to see either event (before my time).