Season 12 • Episode 10
LatestMike and Angelo is a British sci-fi TV sitcom series, that ran on CITV between 16 March 1989 and 7 March 2000. It centres on Angelo, an alien who came from another world during the first series; the portal from his world being that of a wardrobe in one of the bedrooms. He lives with Mike King, and Mike's mother Rita. Later series had Mike and Rita move away, with Rita's nephew Mike Mason staying on in the house with housekeeper Katy. Together, Mike and Angelo get up to all kinds of crazy adventures - all within the vicinity of the house that they live in. Angelo is always inventing something crazy, or walking on the ceiling, or summoning up historical figures from the past. They always wreak havoc together, much to Katy's annoyance, crying "ANGELO!!" in her Scottish accent constantly or Rita in her Canadian accent before her. Their neighbours are the posh Fawkes-Bentleys, in whose house some of the show's scenes are occasionally based. The 1999 series began with Angelo and Katy reading a postcard explaining that Mike was having a good time in America. In his place, Daphne Fawkes-Bentley's niece Michaela became Angelo's sidekick. For the final series, Katy's nephew, also called Mike, joined. The final series was shown in 2000.
Practical Effects
Ceiling-walking practical effects that absolutely fooled 7-year-olds
Acting
Katy Murphy's Scottish-accented 'ANGELO!!' is iconic vocal damage
Production
One house, twelve years, three Mikes, zero budget increases
Creator
Lee Pressman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Lee Pressman later co-created Bob the Builder, proving his true passion was chaotic British beings in domestic spaces.
The wardrobe-as-portal predates Narnia's Netflix adaptation by decades but had roughly 1/1000th the budget.
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