The Features - Home Movie

In the early issues of Cheeky Weekly, our toothy hero would view a home movie every Thursday.  These cinematic sensations were created by Cheeky's pal, Oscar.  However, in another of the many inconsistencies that are evident in Cheeky Weekly, the director we see in 'Colditch. The Great Escape' is clearly not Oscar.  This episode is also the only one where the film (denoted by sprocket holes around the comic panels) ends before the page concludes, allowing a few panels of 'real life' to intrude.

The home movies were spoofs of various film genres, but mishaps, usually caused by adults becoming unwittingly involved in the film, invariably occurred during shooting. Evidently Oscar didn't have great editing skills, as all the foul-ups were left in the final cut.

A cast list was shown at the end of the majority of episodes, the most regularly featured actors being Hooter Harrison and Tubby Thomson. An uncredited dog and worm also featured in many of the movies.


The final Home Movie strip carried the usual 'another Home Movie next week!' banner at the foot of the page.  In the following week's comic, Oscar invited Cheeky to view his latest offering, but Cheeky declined as he was hurrying to look at the skateboard competition on the following page.  Evidently Oscar saw this a a personal affront and stopped making movies as a result.

All the Home Movie pages were drawn by Jack Clayton.

Home Movie in the Cheeky Weekly Index

                                                                                                                                                         

Feature	First Appearance	Final Appearance	Total Issues	Total Issues Missed In Run	Page History
Home Movie	22-Oct-77	10-Jun-78	31	3	19,20,21,22

Issues Missed In Run

07-Jan-78

04-Mar-78

29-Apr-78

Story Title	Start	End
Hambush at Deadmanz Gulch	22-Oct-77	22-Oct-77
Airship Over England	29-Oct-77	29-Oct-77
The Mummy's Curse	05-Nov-77	05-Nov-77
Mac of the Mounties	12-Nov-77	12-Nov-77
Colditch. The Great Escape	19-Nov-77	19-Nov-77
The Vikings	26-Nov-77	26-Nov-77
The Boy from Atlantis	03-Dec-77	03-Dec-77
When Knights Were Bold	10-Dec-77	10-Dec-77
Tarzan of the Apes	17-Dec-77	17-Dec-77
Top Hat and Tails	24-Dec-77	24-Dec-77
Xmas Past	31-Dec-77	31-Dec-77
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp	14-Jan-78	14-Jan-78
Dr. Zuzz	21-Jan-78	21-Jan-78
Franky Stein	28-Jan-78	28-Jan-78
El Bullfighter	04-Feb-78	04-Feb-78
The Case of the Missing Lollipop	11-Feb-78	11-Feb-78
Rock Around the Block	18-Feb-78	18-Feb-78
Defeat of the Spanish Armada	25-Feb-78	25-Feb-78
The Mystery of Loch Ness	11-Mar-78	11-Mar-78
2001 A Space Oddity	18-Mar-78	18-Mar-78
The Thing from Another Planet	25-Mar-78	25-Mar-78
The Trojan Horsebox	01-Apr-78	01-Apr-78
A Bridge To Fear	08-Apr-78	08-Apr-78
Treasure Island	15-Apr-78	15-Apr-78
Mary Popkins	22-Apr-78	22-Apr-78
Z Carties	06-May-78	06-May-78
Moby Dick	13-May-78	13-May-78
The Scarlet Pimple	20-May-78	20-May-78
Dick Twerpin	27-May-78	27-May-78
Australian Adventure	03-Jun-78	03-Jun-78
Robinson Crusoe	10-Jun-78	10-Jun-78

Profile - Posh Claude

Claude felt he was a cut above the riff-raff that populated Cheeky's Week. Strutting around Krazy Town in his school cap and blazer, Claude would be accused by Cheeky of having a lifestyle that was one of moneyed extravagance.  The truth would then be revealed, often in comments made by Claude's mum, and Claude would suffer embarrassment as a result.

Claude's mummikins was indeed posh and had a Rolls Royce and fur coats, but his daddikins was shown to be a street vendor of hot dogs.  However, we see a different father driving the Rolls Royce.  Very strange.

Claude first appeared in Cheeky Weekly issue 3, dated 05 November 1977, and featured in 106 issues.

The scriptwriter wasn't averse to recycling posh jokes, either.

Character	Total Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Posh Claude	106	05-Nov-1977	02-Feb-1980

Posh Claude - Number of appearances by Element

Element	Number of Appearances
Saturday	28
Wednesday	18
Friday	15
Tuesday	15
Thursday	14
Sunday	13
Monday	11
Sunday evening	4
What a Cheek	3
Boxing Day	2
Cheeky's Week	2
Interval	2
Happy leap year	1
Suddenly	1

Posh Claude - Number of appearances by Page

Page	Number of Appearances
12	15
2	13
30	12
31	12
10	7
19	7
1	6
15	6
26	6
20	5
21	5
7	4
18	4
23	4
4	3
6	3
9	3
28	3
5	2
8	2
22	2
11	1
13	1
17	1
25	1
29	1

The Other Cheeky Artists - Bob Hill

Bob Hill's work on Cheeky's Week was limited to a single issue late in the run.  He provided 4 pages in the 105th comic dated 10 November 1979.

One page of Bob's non-Cheeky art had earlier appeared in the issue dated 12 May 1979, which featured a 'Star Guest' feature devoted to Super Store, a strip Bob drew regularly in Whizzer and Chips.





Bob Hill's Cheeky's Week pages in Cheeky Weekly

Cover Date	Page	Element
10-Nov-1979	19	Thursday
10-Nov-1979	26	Friday
10-Nov-1979	30	Saturday
10-Nov-1979	31	Saturday

Cheeky Weekly cover date 17 December 1977

A rather striking cover this week, both in terms of the colour scheme and Libby's threat to do violence with her trusty placard. Snail, evidently in fear of a clout from the feisty feminist, is absent from the front page for the first time in the comic's run.

Inside, Skateboard Squad take a break from foiling international jewel thieves and the like, and instead rescue an incompetent skateboarder in a rather worthy public information film-type message-heavy script.  Unfortunately they don't exercise the same degree of care when forcing Cheeky to climb a lamp post to avoid them while they speed into action on the preceding page.

On Monday, as Cheeky races home to see 6 Million Dollar Gran, he passes Margaret Thatcher (Conservative leader), Jim Callaghan (Labour Prime Minister) and David Steel (Liberal leader) waiting for a bus.

Norman Wisdom appears on the Old Comic page in a reprint from a 1958 Radio Fun. Norman was one of Britain's biggest film stars in the 50s, so I'm not sure why he appeared in Radio Fun rather than Film Fun - I don't think he did much radio work.

The art on Cheeky's Week in this issue is a mix of pure Frank McDiarmid (3 pages), Frank's pencils (7 full pages plus the cover strip and the conclusion to Wednesday) and a single page by Dick Millington, his first to appear in the comic.  Dick's Friday page is where Libby gets to carry out her threat and fetches Cheeky a nasty knock on the nut.

As the comic settles into a regular routine, there are no character or feature debuts or departures this week.

Cheeky Weekly	Cover Date: 17-Dec-1977, Issue 9 of 117
Page	Details
1	Cover Feature 'Libby' - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils (first art on feature)\What a Cheek - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
2	Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
3	Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen
4	Sunday evening - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
5	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 9 of 11 - Art Lopez
6	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 9 of 11 - Art Lopez
7	Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
8	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
9	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
10	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
11	What's New, Kids
12	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
13	Old Comic reprint from Radio Fun 'Norman Wisdom'
14	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils\Doug's Doodle - Art Artie Jackson (first art on feature)
15	Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
16	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds
17	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds\Wednesday (conclusion) - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
18	Joke-Box Jury
19	Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid
20	Home Movie 'Tarzan of the Apes' - Art Jack Clayton
21	Friday - Art Dick Millington (first art on feature)
22	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
23	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
24	Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid
25	Wile E Coyote 'Rage In A Cage'
26	Wile E Coyote 'Rage In A Cage'
27	Interval - Art Frank McDiarmid
28	Space Family Robinson 'Death Leap' - Art John Richardson
29	Space Family Robinson 'Death Leap' - Art John Richardson
30	Saturday - Art Cut and Paste\Ad: IPC 'Whoopee' 1 of 9
31	Diary - Art Jim Petrie
32	Diary - Art Jim Petrie

Profile - Parachutist

One of the more obscure of Cheeky's pals, the parachutist appeared in 10 issues of Cheeky Weekly, early in the comic's run.  Like most of the cast of Cheeky's Week, the parachutist (code name 003 and-a-half) was essentially a one-joke character.  In his case the joke was that he was carrying out a daring covert operation, but each week touched down either at the wrong time or the wrong location.

Parachutist appeared weekly from 29 October to 26 November 1977.  His parachuting skills evidently got even worse the following week as he missed the 03 December comic entirely.  However, he was featured twice in the comic dated 10 December 1977, on Sunday evening and Thursday, two unrelated aeronautical mishaps.

He missed the 17 December 1977 issue, but was back on 24 and 31 December 1977, before missing another week then appearing on 14 January 1978.

We can only assume he was on a deep cover mission for some months, as his next landing was not until the comic dated 13 May 1978.  In this issue, the parachutist crashed through Cheeky's roof into the attic and prevented Cheeky's regular look at his dad's old comics.  This gross incompetence apparently resulted in his licence to thrill being revoked, as that was the parachutist's final appearance.

Character	Total Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Parachutist	10	29-Oct-1977	13-May-1978

Parachutist - Number of appearances by Element

Element	Number of Appearances
Thursday	3
Sunday evening	2
Tuesday	2
Friday	1
Monday	1
Saturday	1
Wednesday	1

Parachutist - Number of appearances by Page

Page	Number of Appearances
19	3
4	2
13	2
8	1
12	1
21	1
26	1

Vote Burpo!

Over at Bruce's Toon Blog there's an opportunity to vote on one of the most contentious topics of our time; who is the top tiny terror - Baby Burpo or Sweeny Toddler?

I'm pleased to see that Bruce has placed himself firmly in the Burpo camp.  Burpo is undeniably the most terrifying of the two because of his skill in manipulating those around him while perpetrating his mischief.

The Other Cheeky Artists - Jim Watson

Jim Watson's artwork first appeared in Cheeky Weekly issue 17, dated 11 February 1978, for which Jim supplied 3 pages, from Tuesday to Thursday (the conclusion to Wednesday was not by Jim).

In each of the issues dated 01 April and 08 April 1978, Jim contributed 2 pages, and in each of the issues dated 29 April and 20 May Jim's work graced 4 full pages and a three-panel conclusion to Saturday.

03 June 1978 included 4 pages of his work, and Jim's last work on Cheeky's Week appeared in the issue dated 10 June 1978, to which he contributed 4 full pages and a three-panel Saturday conclusion.



There was some more work from Jim in the comic - his Hickory Dickory Doc (reprinted from Cor!!) appeared in the 16 September 1978 issue.

Jim Watson's Cheeky's Week pages in Cheeky Weekly 

Cover Date	Page	Element
11-Feb-1978	12	Tuesday
11-Feb-1978	15	Wednesday
11-Feb-1978	19	Thursday
01-Apr-1978	28	Interval
01-Apr-1978	31	Saturday - April Fool's Day
08-Apr-1978	28	Interval
08-Apr-1978	31	Saturday
29-Apr-1978	19	Thursday
29-Apr-1978	20	Friday
29-Apr-1978	24	Saturday
29-Apr-1978	28	Interval
29-Apr-1978	31	Saturday
20-May-1978	19	Thursday
20-May-1978	21	Friday
20-May-1978	25	Saturday
20-May-1978	28	Interval
20-May-1978	31	Saturday
03-Jun-1978	21	Friday
03-Jun-1978	25	Saturday
03-Jun-1978	28	Interval
03-Jun-1978	31	Saturday
10-Jun-1978	19	Thursday
10-Jun-1978	22	Friday
10-Jun-1978	26	Saturday
10-Jun-1978	28	Interval
10-Jun-1978	31	Saturday

The Features - Joke-Box Jury

The second page of a two-page Jury

Named after venerable TV show Juke-Box Jury, on which a panel of celebrities would vote a selection of new record releases to be either a Hit or Miss, Joke-Box Jury saw a rotating group of Cheeky characters delivering their verdict on the jokes sent in by readers.  The jury was never negative, and emitted such giggles, chortles, sniggers and guffaws as they felt appropriate.  Even Gloomy Glad sat on the Joke-Box Jury, looking suitably amused, in the issue dated 23 September 1978.

Submissions for this feature were first invited in the second issue of Cheeky Weekly, where readers were asked to call The Fun Phone with their jokes.  Joke-Box Jury first appeared in issue 8 of the comic and appeared in all but 11 issues of the remainder of the comic's run.  86 Jury features covered one page or part thereof, and 12 were 2-pagers.  In the 27 October 1979 issue, J-B J was spread over 3 pages, with a half-page on page 7, and 2 full pages on 20 and 21.

The Joke-Box Jury page in the comic dated 31 December 1977 announced that the Fun-Phone would be taking a break, and details of the re-opening of said telephonic amusement device would be announced in the issue dated 07 January 1978.  However, the announcement in that issue says that 'Due to a technical problem we cannot reopen the Fun-Phone just yet'.  The announcement asked readers to post their jokes in the meantime.  In fact the Fun Phone was never to return.  Presumably the 'technical problem' was either a large number of complaints from parents faced with inflated phone bills, or staff in the Cheeky Weekly office being exasperated with pesky kids phoning in and larking about ('Hey, Mister, can I speak to Lily Pop?').

Some of the jokes that were printed would be considered inappropriate today, but those were very different times, when 'humour' of that type was common in the media and schools, workplaces etc.  I apologise if anyone finds some of the jokes in the example pages offensive, but they are presented as a document of a less enlightened era.

A not-so-gloomy Glad

There was a £2.00 prize for those whose jokes were published, and this remained unchanged for the entire run of the feature which, in a time of double-digit inflation, seems a bit stingy (the cover price of the comic rose from 8p to 10p in the same period).

A quick web search suggests that the British version of Juke-Box Jury finished in 1967, although it was revived in 1979 and again in 1989.  The play on the title would therefore be meaningless to most Cheeky Weekly readers when the feature started, so maybe it was aimed at their parents.

                                                                                                                                                         

Feature	First Appearance	Final Appearance	Total Issues	Total Issues Missed In Run	Page History
Joke-Box Jury	10-Dec-77	02-Feb-80	99	11	4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29

Issues Missed In Run

13-May-78

03-Jun-78

08-Jul-78

15-Jul-78

05-Aug-78

07-Oct-78

21-Oct-78

18-Nov-78

02-Dec-78

02-Jun-79

29-Dec-79

Bruce's look at Cheeky Annual 1980

...can be seen here.

Cheeky Weekly cover date 10 Dec 1977

Baby Burpo is featured on the cover this week, with a reference to Cheeky's regular Wednesday night fright, resulting this issue from a Creepy Sleepy Tale of an ancient Egyptian mummy.

In the What's New, Kids advertising feature, Cheeky introduces two mechanical characters from a new film.  Their names are R2D2 and C3PO, and the film is apparently called Star Wars.  Wonder if it will prove popular.

Page 30 sees Cheeky present a coupon soliciting readers' views on Cheeky Weekly.  Under a banner making the sinister claim that 'We have ways of making you talk', the coupon asks readers to rank the non-Cheeky's Week features, and to comment on which of Cheeky's pals they like and dislike. The strip that accompanies this feature uses a crude rehash of a Reg Parlett Mustapha Million panel from the first issue of Cheeky Weekly, in what looks to me like a cut-and-paste job.

There are six pure Frank McDiarmid pages this week, plus the three-panel conclusion of Wednesday.

Two characters make their debut this week.  School gardener Dan-Dan the Lavender Man makes his first compost-encrusted Cheeky Weekly appearance on Sunday, along with Milkie's assistant who, having served his purpose in setting up a joke with the punchline 'one's a milk roundsman and the other's a round milkman', is never seen again.

A notable feature to debut this week is Joke-Box Jury.

Cheeky Weekly	Cover Date: 10-Dec-1977, Issue 8 of 117
Page	Details
1	Cover Feature 'Creepy Sleepy Tale' 1 of 3 - Art Frank McDiarmid\What a Cheek - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
2	Sunday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
3	Skateboard Squad - Art Jimmy Hansen
4	Sunday evening - Art Frank McDiarmid
5	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 8 of 11 - Art Lopez
6	James Bold 'Fangs of Fear' 8 of 11 - Art Lopez
7	Monday - Art Frank McDiarmid
8	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
9	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
10	6 Million Dollar Gran - Art Ian Knox
11	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
12	Old Comic reprint from TV Fun 'Mick and Montmorency' 1 of 2
13	Tuesday - Art Frank McDiarmid\Doug's Doodle - Art Terry Bave
14	Joke-Box Jury (first appearance)
15	Wednesday - Art Frank McDiarmid
16	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds (first art on feature)
17	Creepy Sleepy Tale - Art Keith Reynolds (first art on feature)\Wednesday (conclusion) - Art Frank McDiarmid
18	What's New, Kids
19	Thursday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
20	Home Movie 'When Knights Were Bold' - Art Jack Clayton
21	Friday - Art Frank McDiarmid
22	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
23	Mustapha Million - Art Reg Parlett
24	Saturday - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
25	Henery Hawk 'A Peachy Idea'
26	Henery Hawk 'A Peachy Idea'
27	Interval - Art Frank McDiarmid pencils
28	Space Family Robinson 'Dead End' - Art John Richardson
29	Space Family Robinson 'Dead End' - Art John Richardson
30	Saturday - Art Cut and Paste
31	Diary - Art Jim Petrie
32	Diary - Art Jim Petrie

Profile - Newsagent

2 versions of the newsagent by Frank

Understandably, the newsagent wasn't pleased to see Cheeky enjoying repeated illicit free reads of his merchandise.  As discussed in my earlier post, the newsagent's function in Cheeky's week was to eject him from the shop after interrupting the toothy funster's James Bold fix.

This is the version that appeared in most of the strips

The newsagent occasionally appeared on the Monday page, as Cheeky sneaked past him into the shop, but he caught Cheeky in all 25 Suddenly features, no matter what deception Cheeky employed.  Even the considerable charms of Lily Pop couldn't save Cheeky from discovery.

Lily Pop entrances the variant newsagent
Art: Unknown Cheeky Artist 1

The variant newsagent
Art: Unknown Cheeky Artist 1

The newsagent didn't look the same in all the issues.  Even Frank McDiarmid drew two different-looking versions.

Scenes set in the newsagents gave the artists opportunity to add humorous details like crazy magazine titles such as Wig-Wearers Weekly.

Barrie Appleby's newsagent variant

Newsagent's final appearance was in the last Suddenly feature in the issue dated 24 June 1978

I doubt whether publishers IPC would have been happy if their readers had adopted Cheeky's attitude to avoiding payment with regard to their comic titles.

Character	Total Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Newsagent	25	07-Jan-1978	24-Jun-1978

Newsagent - Number of appearances by Element

Element	Number of Appearances
Suddenly	25
Monday	9
Easter Monday	1

Newsagent - Number of appearances by Page

Page	Number of Appearances
11	15
12	8
8	6
9	4
10	2

Bruce's Pin-Up Pal gallery

Bruce has posted a selection of the Pin-Up Pal pages from Cheeky Weekly.

James Bold Mystery mystery solved

I had previously believed that no title was given for the James Bold story that Cheeky read from issues dated 29 April to 24 June 1978.  However, while preparing a post on the Newsagent, I came across this panel from the issue dated 27 May 1978, in which we can see the novel is entitled The Frightened Village.

I have now updated my earlier James Bold posts with this info.

The Features - Suddenly

2 Suddenlys sharing the same first panel

 Anyone unfamiliar with the intricacies of Cheeky's Week may have been puzzled by the references to the 'Suddenly' feature in my previous post.

The Suddenly feature is part of the framing device surrounding some of the James Bold tales in the comic.  In the first 11 issues, readers joined Cheeky as he read the original Bold tale, Fangs of Fear, in bed.  However, for the second Bold adventure, Cheeky regularly sneaked into the newsagents for a free read of the new James Bold novel, The Ghost Highwayman.  Each week Cheeky's reading was interrupted by the newsagent, who would snatch the book away and eject Cheeky from the shop (always at a moment of peak excitement in the novel, of course).

The first Suddenly page, in the issue dated 07 January 1978, was not named as such, but the equivalent page in the following week's comic was headed 'Suddenly, Cheeky's reading was interrupted…'.  I have adopted the name Suddenly for all pages in the comic where Cheeky's clandestine reading is cut short.  OK, I know that in the 25 February 1978 issue the page was titled 'Cheeky's reading came to an end', but I'm sticking to Suddenly….

In preparing the 28 January 1978 issue there must have been an artwork crisis. The first panel of the Suddenly page is a reprint of the first panel from the 07 January Suddenly, but with a different newsagent's speech balloon, and the majority of the rest of the page is taken up with 2 mazes. In the final panel of the same week's Monday page, before Cheeky began reading, Cheeky is seen sneaking into the newsagents in a false beard. In the issue dated 25 February 1978, the newsagent apprehends a bearded Cheeky, so this page is presumably the artwork that was originally intended for the 28 January issue.

On 11 March 1978 Cheeky is caught before he even starts reading, and consequently there is no James Bold feature that week (the previous story had finished the week before, and Bold's novelised adventures would resume with the first episode of Tower of Terror the following week).

Cheeky's sneaky newsagent-reading saw him peruse 3 Bold adventures. The final Bold story to be enjoyed by Cheeky in novel form, The Frightened Village, ended on 24 June 1978.  The Suddenly feature came to an end the same week, because Island of Fear, Bold's last adventure to appear in Cheeky Weekly, was presented as a film series which Cheeky and his pals watched on Saturdays.

How many newsagents have shelves of books, anyway?

Following tables REVISED 10 September 2010 'cos I had the Suddenly feature dated 07 January 1978 recorded as Monday in my data when I originally ran the figures.

Feature	First Appearance	Final Appearance	Total Issues	Total Issues Missed In Run	Page History
Suddenly	07-Jan-78	24-Jun-78	25	0	10,11,12

Issues Missed In Run

Feature	Artist	Number of Issues	First Appearance	Final Appearance
Suddenly	Frank McDiarmid pencils	5	07-Jan-1978	03-Jun-1978
Suddenly	Unknown Cheeky Artist 1	3	14-Jan-1978	25-Mar-1978
Suddenly	Frank McDiarmid	10	21-Jan-1978	13-May-1978
Suddenly	Cut and Paste	1	28-Jan-1978	28-Jan-1978
Suddenly	Barrie Appleby	4	08-Apr-1978	24-Jun-1978
Suddenly	Dick Millington	1	27-May-1978	27-May-1978
Suddenly	Mike Lacey	1	17-Jun-1978	17-Jun-1978

Preceding Page	Count
James Bold	24
Monday	1

Pages per Issue	Number of Issues
1	25

The Other Cheeky Artists - Barrie Appleby

Please note that Barrie's work on the Laugh and Learn features in Cheeky Weekly (on which he collaborated with Brian Walker) are not covered in this topic. Laugh and Learn was never drawn by Frank McDiarmid, and it's therefore outside the scope of this series on artists who ghosted Frank's features.

Barrie Appleby joined the elite band of Cheeky's Week artists in Cheeky Weekly issue 21, dated 11 March 1978, in which he drew 5 full pages, from Wednesday (which featured a guest appearance by The Two Ronnies) to the Interval page, and a further 3 panel strip which concluded Saturday.

Barrie supplied 4 full pages in the issue dated 25 March 1978, this time drawing Wednesday to Saturday. In the issue dated 08 April 1978 he started at the beginning of the week, with 5 pages from Sunday to Tuesday (Sunday being comprised of Sunday and Sunday evening, and Monday covering Monday and Suddenly).

In the 22 April 1978 issue, Barrie's 4 full pages of artwork commenced on Thursday, and ended with Interval, but Barrie also supplied the closing Saturday three-panel segment, and in the 06 May 1978 issue he provided the same elements again.


The comic dated 20 May 1978 saw Barrie contribute his highest number of pages in a single issue yet, with a set of 6 full pages running from Sunday to the first part of Wednesday, and also the three panel Wednesday strip following that week's Creepy Sleepy Tale.

However, this high point was followed by 2 issues where Barrie provided only the post-Tale 3-panel strips; 27 May and 03 June 1978.

The 10 June 1978 issue contained 6 full pages of Barrie's work, plus the 3-panel Wednesday closer, but on 17 June he was back to providing only the Wednesday conclusion.

Barrie provided 6 full pages for the issue dated 24 June 1978, but this time he didn't draw the concluding Wednesday strip.  In the following week's 01 July 1978 issue, the 3-panel conclusion of Wednesday was his sole contribution.

Barrie's work adorned the cover of the 08 July 1978 comic, with that week's What a Cheek strip, but his only work inside was again the Wednesday conclusion, and on 15 July he provided only the What a Cheek feature.

Following these weeks of minimal fill-ins, Barrie was back, with what was to be his only full Cheeky's Week, in the comic dated 22 July 1978.  The Cheeky features this week consisted of 10 full pages and a 3-panel Wednesday conclusion.

In the 12 and 19 August 1978 comics, Barrie delivered only the main Wednesday pages, and on 26 August his work appeared in the concluding 3 panels of Wednesday only.  This was the final appearance of the concluding Wednesday strip, as the Creepy Sleepy Tales came to an end in this issue.

Barrie's work didn't feature again until the comic dated 10 February 1979, in which he contributed 8 full pages and the cover's What a Cheek 3-panel strip.  This was almost a full Cheeky's Week, but Frank contributed that week's Burpo Special (I include The Burpo Special as part of Cheeky's Week).
A month later the position was reversed, with the Cheeky's Week content of the 10 March 1979 comic being comprised of 9 elements by Frank McDiarmid and Barrie contributing a Burpo Special only (the only occasion on which Barrie drew the strip).

Later that month Barrie provided 4 pages in the 31 March 1979 issue, and there was another Barrie 4-page issue dated 28 April.

The 26 May 1979 issue featured Barrie's art on the cover only. In the editions dated 13 and 20 October 1979, Barrie stood in for Frank McDiarmid on Snail of the Century.

The issue dated 10 November 1979 featured another 4 pages from Barrie, and his final work on Cheeky Weekly graced the cover of edition number 106, dated 17 November 1979.

Barrie Appleby's Cheeky's Week pages in Cheeky Weekly

Cover Date	Page	Element
11-Mar-1978	15	Wednesday
11-Mar-1978	19	Thursday
11-Mar-1978	21	Friday
11-Mar-1978	25	Saturday
11-Mar-1978	28	Interval
11-Mar-1978	31	Saturday
25-Mar-1978	15	Wednesday
25-Mar-1978	19	Thursday
25-Mar-1978	21	Friday
25-Mar-1978	25	Saturday
08-Apr-1978	2	Sunday
08-Apr-1978	4	Sunday evening
08-Apr-1978	9	Monday
08-Apr-1978	12	Suddenly
08-Apr-1978	13	Tuesday
22-Apr-1978	19	Thursday
22-Apr-1978	21	Friday
22-Apr-1978	25	Saturday
22-Apr-1978	28	Interval
22-Apr-1978	31	Saturday
06-May-1978	19	Thursday
06-May-1978	21	Friday
06-May-1978	25	Saturday
06-May-1978	28	Interval
06-May-1978	31	Saturday
20-May-1978	2	Sunday
20-May-1978	4	Sunday evening
20-May-1978	8	Monday
20-May-1978	11	Suddenly
20-May-1978	13	Tuesday
20-May-1978	15	Wednesday
20-May-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
27-May-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
03-Jun-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
10-Jun-1978	2	Sunday
10-Jun-1978	4	Sunday evening
10-Jun-1978	9	Monday
10-Jun-1978	12	Suddenly
10-Jun-1978	13	Tuesday
10-Jun-1978	15	Wednesday
10-Jun-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
17-Jun-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
24-Jun-1978	2	Sunday
24-Jun-1978	4	Sunday evening
24-Jun-1978	8	Monday
24-Jun-1978	11	Suddenly
24-Jun-1978	12	Tuesday
24-Jun-1978	15	Wednesday
01-Jul-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
08-Jul-1978	1	What a Cheek
08-Jul-1978	18	Wednesday (conclusion)
15-Jul-1978	1	What a Cheek
22-Jul-1978	2	Sunday
22-Jul-1978	4	Sunday evening
22-Jul-1978	8	Monday
22-Jul-1978	13	Tuesday
22-Jul-1978	16	Wednesday
22-Jul-1978	18	Wednesday (conclusion)
22-Jul-1978	20	Thursday
22-Jul-1978	23	Friday
22-Jul-1978	25	Saturday
22-Jul-1978	28	Interval
22-Jul-1978	31	Saturday
12-Aug-1978	14	Wednesday (conclusion)
19-Aug-1978	14	Wednesday (conclusion)
26-Aug-1978	17	Wednesday (conclusion)
10-Feb-1979	1	Cheeky's Week
10-Feb-1979	2	Sunday
10-Feb-1979	8	Monday
10-Feb-1979	10	Tuesday
10-Feb-1979	12	Wednesday
10-Feb-1979	23	Thursday
10-Feb-1979	25	Friday
10-Feb-1979	30	Saturday
10-Feb-1979	31	Saturday
10-Mar-1979	29	The Burpo Special 'Constable Chuckle'
31-Mar-1979	2	Sunday
31-Mar-1979	6	Monday
31-Mar-1979	9	Tuesday
31-Mar-1979	12	Wednesday
28-Apr-1979	23	Thursday
28-Apr-1979	25	Friday
28-Apr-1979	30	Saturday
28-Apr-1979	31	Saturday
26-May-1979	1	Cheeky's Week
13-Oct-1979	32	Snail of the Century
20-Oct-1979	32	Snail of the Century
10-Nov-1979	2	Sunday
10-Nov-1979	7	Monday
10-Nov-1979	10	Tuesday
10-Nov-1979	15	Wednesday
17-Nov-1979	1	Cover Feature 'Gunga Jim'