Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestIn the final breath-taking episode, Huntley must track down how the police found them, and Myrtle discovers she was being spied on and followed. In the short time they have left to survive, the remaining Chocolate & Freedom party members show a disc on TV saying to eat chocolate, and it returns to the fabulous world and everyone's happy again.
Based on the book of the same name by Alex Shearer; a new political party called the "Good for You" (abbreviated as GFY) which comes into power and bans chocolate. Two kids named Smudger Moore and Huntley Hunter want to get their chocolate back. They begin by selling bootleg chocolate, and go on to join an underground resistance organization.
Writing
GFY party name remains unhinged genius
Acting
Gemma Jones elevates every scene she's in
Production
Genuinely convincing police-state aesthetic on kids' TV budget
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Alex Shearer's 1999 novel, which was allegedly inspired by real UK school lunch policies and the absurdity of prohibition logic.
Aired on CBBC in 2002, arguably part of a golden era of British children's television that trusted kids with genuinely subversive material—see also: The Demon Headmaster and Tracy Beaker.
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