King Rollo

King Rollo was a children's character created by David McKee in 1979, starring in a series of books, animations (narrated by Ray Brooks), and a comic strip in the magazine "Buttons". In all, thirteen episodes of the animation were produced in 1980, by McKee's own "King Rollo Films".

The central character of the stories was Rollo himself, a child-like King who was always in need of advice and assistance from his friends. Among these were "The Magician" (a father figure) "Cook" (the king's cook, a mother figure, who was arguably the real ruler of the kingdom); his neighbour, "Queen Gwen"; the royal magician; "King Frank"; and perhaps most importantly, Rollo's cat, "Hamlet", who was generally portrayed as wiser than Rollo himself.

The animations used the same distinctive colourful cut-out paper look as McKee's other works, such as Mr Benn, and one memorable aspect was that the characters' legs would rotate outwards when walking until they were at right-angles at the sides of their body.

Episode Listing

*The Bread
*The Playroom
*The Bath
*The Dishes
*The New Shoes
*The Breakfast
*The Tree
*The Comic
*King Frank
*The Birthday
*The Balloons
*The Search
*The Dog

External links

*imdb title|0080237
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