Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestKing Cinder is a six-part British children's television serial made by the BBC in 1977. It was first shown between 2 November and 7 December 1977 on BBC1. A gritty series, King Cinder by John Foster, pitches two teenagers, played by Peter Duncan a speedway bike rider and Lesley Manville his girlfriend against a criminal gang running an extortion racket run by nasty Todd Edwards and Hells Angel Daniel Abineri in a South Coast fictional seaside town called Barton. Possibly one of the best final chase scenes on children's British television in the 1970s where Edwards driving a red Austin Maxi chases a running Kerry through a quarry only to see Edwards crash over a cliff. The executive producer was Anna Home.
Practical Effects
That quarry chase with a real Austin Maxi going over a cliff.
Acting
Baby Lesley Manville already had that Lesley Manville energy.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Duncan later became a Blue Peter presenter—imagine your childhood hero being this speedway delinquent first.
Anna Home, the exec producer, was basically the BBC's children's drama queen; she greenlit dark, ambitious stuff like this and The Machine Gunners when American kids' TV was still squeaky-clean.
