The one-off special episode based on the final Mr Benn book called „Gladiator” was broadcast on Nick Jr. on New Year’s Day in 2005. These episodes were repeated twice a year for 21 years with further repeats airing in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2000. McKee wrote and animated (with Ian Lawless) thirteen Mr Benn episodes for the BBC between 1971 and 1972. Contender Home Entertainment released a DVD containing all fourteen episodes (including the then-new „Gladiator” episode) on 10 October 2005. The developer, Lucky Omen Games Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. As Mr mr bens jackpot Benn celebrates his 50th anniversary, 82-year-old David reveals some of the inspirations behind the character – and discusses the next big (Hollywood) adventure…

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Mr Benn is a character, created by David McKee, who originally appeared in several children’s books. The first, Mr Benn Red Knight, was published in 1967, followed by three more; these became the basis for an animated television series of the same name originally transmitted by the BBC from 1971 to 1972. Over the course of 13 episodes, originally shown in 1971 and ’72, and then repeated a staggering 42 times over the next 21 years, Mr Benn revisits the shop and has adventures that fit whichever costume he’s trying on, from flying into space, to taming a pirate. The series was voted the sixth most popular children’s television programme in the 2001 Channel 4 poll 100 Greatest Kids’ TV shows.

• Additionally, scenes before and after his adventure usually have some connection to it, such as the games the children are playing in the street as he passes.
• According to Mr Benn’s Little Book of Life, very little of McKee’s original artwork created for the television episodes exists today, as most of it was thrown into a rubbish skip in the 1970s.
• It was also rated number 13 in the 50 Greatest Kids TV Shows which aired on Channel 5 on 8 November 2013.
• After over thirty years, a brand new Mr Benn episode was screened for the first time on 1 January 2005, on the United Kingdom channel Noggin.
• Mr Benn started life as a series of books, written and drawn by the author and artist David McKee in the late 1960s.
• The original Red Knight, in which Mr Benn defends a dragon, was not a cartoon at all, but a story book that children’s author and illustrator David McKee wrote in 1967.

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His escapades will come in many forms, and he always calmly takes a very pro-active role in helping the people he meets on them. In the first story he restores justice to a dragon who’s been unfairly blamed for a fire; in the next he manages to change the attitude of a hunter so that he ends up snapping animals with a camera rather than shooting them with a gun. There’s a common thread of solving real issues running through the storylines (loneliness, animal welfare, valuing who somebody is, rather than what they look like etc.) with an emphasis on people working together to achieve a common goal.

• Without blinking an eye he immerses himself in his new role of ‘adventurer’, a far cry from his real-life suburban suited existence.
• Over the course of 13 episodes, originally shown in 1971 and ’72, and then repeated a staggering 42 times over the next 21 years, Mr Benn revisits the shop and has adventures that fit whichever costume he’s trying on, from flying into space, to taming a pirate.
• There is great speculation as to whether Mr Benn actually does travel through space and time or whether he is simply imagining these extraordinary places as an antidote to his sedate and rather ordinary existence.
• In both the books and the television series, Mr Benn’s adventures take on a similar pattern.
• Despite this, the programme never preached; children watching could understand the message that each episode delivered whilst simply enjoying the story and without feeling they were being lectured.
• Contender Home Entertainment released a DVD containing all fourteen episodes (including the then-new „Gladiator” episode) on 10 October 2005.

It was also rated number 13 in the 50 Greatest Kids TV Shows which aired on Channel 5 on 8 November 2013. At the end of each story, Mr Benn returns to his normal life, but is left with a small souvenir of his magical adventure. Additionally, scenes before and after his adventure usually have some connection to it, such as the games the children are playing in the street as he passes. The original Red Knight, in which Mr Benn defends a dragon, was not a cartoon at all, but a story book that children’s author and illustrator David McKee wrote in 1967. It captured imaginations at the BBC, who approached David to make a series for Watch With Mother.

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Despite this, the programme never preached; children watching could understand the message that each episode delivered whilst simply enjoying the story and without feeling they were being lectured. There is great speculation as to whether Mr Benn actually does travel through space and time or whether he is simply imagining these extraordinary places as an antidote to his sedate and rather ordinary existence. On returning from each adventure however, he always finds a small memento of his trip (a clown’s red nose, a parrot’s feather, a stone hammer etc.) that he has retained, which implies he really was there. But what happens next is not ordinary at all, as Mr Benn, invited to a fancy dress party, goes in search of a suitable costume. In a back street, he finds a fancy dress shop, where „as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared” and allows him to try on a red suit of armour.

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Clive told host Susanna Reid he started to well up after learning he won. As a result, he bagged the grand prize and was over the moon in celebration. Curious, Ben asked Clive what he would do with the money, reports the Mirror. One viewer tweeted, „So please for this lovely man, Clive and his wife,” as someone else said, „Amazing @benshephard. It brought a tear to my eye. Lovely man.”

Mr Benn started life as a series of books, written and drawn by the author and artist David McKee in the late 1960s. With beautifully drawn and vividly coloured, detailed scenes it is no wonder it was spotted by the BBC who then commissioned a television series. In its original outing between 1971 and 1972 it went out in the children’s See-Saw slot on BBC2, and since then it has been repeated over sixty times. A further book, ‘Mr Benn – Gladiator’ was written by McKee in 2001, which was then brought to the television in 2005, and Mr Benn’s 40th birthday in 2011 has sparked a multitude of new projects for him. It was also voted sixth in Channel 4’s ‘100 Greatest Kids’ TV Show’s poll in 2001 – and no wonder. With beautiful illustrations, a heart-warming central character and meaningful, imaginative storylines, Mr Benn is a programme that will appeal to every new generation of children.

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Neighbours chat over fences and children and dogs play on the pavement. Mr Benn lives at number 52 – we know very little about him except he’s always smartly dressed in a black suit and bowler hat. In the very first episode (‘Mr Benn – Red Knight’) the gentle tone of narrator Ray Brooks tells us that he’s been invited to a fancy dress party and needs something to wear. After some fruitless searching in the town Mr Benn starts to head home, only to happen upon a small costume shop up a back lane. Once he steps through the door, ‘as if by magic the Shopkeeper appears’, and the two make each other’s acquaintance.