Book:Johnny and the Dead
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Johnny and the Dead | |
Co-author(s) | {{{coauthors}}} |
Illustrator(s) | {{{illustrator}}} |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1993 |
ISBN | 0-385-40301-1 |
Pages | |
RRP | {{{rrp}}} |
Main characters | Johnny Maxwell |
Series | Johnny Maxwell Series |
Annotations | View |
Notes | |
All data relates to the first UK edition. |
Blurb
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learned a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive. Particularly if they break a few rules...
Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies...
Lead Characters
The Dead
- Pvt. Tommy Atkins, last of the Blackbury Volunteers (the Pals)
- Alderman Thomas Bowler(1826-1906)
- Mr. Solomon Einstein, taxidermist and amateur physicist
- Mr. Addison Fletcher, an electronics engineer
- Mr. Eric Grimm (d.1927)
- Mrs. Sylvia Liberty (d.1914)Suffragette
- Mr. Ronald Newton (1878-1934)
- Mr. Sidney "Wrong Way" Roundway, footballing legend
- Comrade William Stickers a would have been Communist leader
- Mr. Antonio Vicente, magician and escapologist manqué
Living Characters
- Ronald Atterbury, a war hero
- Sergeant Comely, Blackbury Constabulary.
- Cllr. Ms. Ethel Liberty, a descendent.
- Jeremy the Thumb, a newspaper photographer
- Grandfather Maxwell, Johnny's grandparent
Supernatural Entities
Adaptations
Johnny and the Dead | |
ASIN | {{{asin}}} |
IMDB | 0294117 |
First Broadcast | 1995 |
Broadcast Channel | ITV |
Director(s) | {{{director}}} |
Producer(s) | Gerald Fox |
Writer(s) | {{{writer}}} |
Starring | Jotham Annan, George Baker, Brian Blessed |
Duration | 120 minutes |
Episodes | 4 |
Series | Johnny Maxwell Series |
Annotations | Annotations for Book:Johnny and the Dead |
Notes | |
Preceded by | Truckers |
Followed by | Welcome to the Discworld |
All data relates to the UK home release. |
TV Series
Johnny and the Dead was adapted for television by London Weekend Television in 1995.
Cast:
- Jotham Annan: Yo-Less
- George Baker: Thomas Bowler
- Brian Blessed: William Stickers
- Paul Child: Bigmac
- Andrew Falvey: Johnny Maxwell
- John Grillo: Antonio Vicente
- Harry Landis: Solomon Einstein
- Jane Lapotaire: Sylvia Liberty
- Ray Lonnen: James Bowler
- Charlie Watts: Wobbler
- Geoffrey Whitehead: Addison Fletcher
- Arthur Whybrow: Grandfather Maxwell
- Tina Martin: Mrs. Maxwell
- Barrie Houghton: Eric Grimm
Theatre
The book was also adapted into a stage-play by Stephen Briggs in 1996.
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