Scratchy & Co.

Scratchy & Co.
Genre	Children's entertainment
Starring	Ronni Ancona Elliot Henderson-Boyle Mark Speight
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	72
Production
Running time	75–105 minutes
Production companies	Mentorn Midlands in association with Carlton UK Productions and Central
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	6 May 1995 (1995-05-06) – 25 April 1998 (1998-04-25)

Scratchy & Co. is a British children's entertainment show that aired on ITV on Saturday mornings from 6 May 1995 to 25 April 1998.

Premise

Scratchy & Co. starred Elliot Henderson-Boyle as "Reg" and Mark Speight as "Scratchy". Other characters included Annabel and a Scottish girl, both played by comedian and impressionist Ronni Ancona. The main gimmick of the show was that the cast wore solid rubber wigs and eccentric jackets. A stylistic similarity might be noted between this approach and Max Headroom. This format only lasted for its first series.

Later series introduced other characters such as Sedgely the penguin and Fathead the football.

From the second series, the show moved away from the original Max Headroom-esque style, into a studio where Scratchy (now minus the rubber wig) sat behind a desk, with Reg behind a window. At this point, guests were invited into the studio and interviewed. However, most of the characters which had been introduced earlier were dropped.

Gail Porter was a frequent guest presenter in the third and fourth series.

The show was nominated for a BAFTA. It was axed after the fourth series in 1998 as part of a revamp of CITV's Saturday morning line-up which took effect that autumn with the launch of SMTV Live and CD:UK.

Transmission guide

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	6 May 1995	16 December 1995	21
2	4 May 1996	24 August 1996	17
3	4 January 1997	26 April 1997	17
4	3 January 1998	25 April 1998	17

External links

• Scratchy & Co. on Paul Morris' SatKids