Mr Majeika (Mr Majeika, 1)

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Teach Yourself To Speak Scottish – 4 – Parliamo Glasgow". 11 January 2008 . Retrieved 9 June 2012– via YouTube.

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Stanley Baxter's bedside book of Glasgow humour (Book, 1986). [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 13795450. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. After the war, Baxter returned to Glasgow taking to the stage for three years at Glasgow's Citizens' Theatre. Following success on the radio with Jimmy Logan, Howard & Wyndham Ltd invited him to star in pantomime at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow followed by the Half Past Eight Shows, and their successors the Five Past Eight Shows at Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre. [2] [3] He moved to London to work in television in 1959. The focus of these stories is Mr. Majeika, a teacher at St Barty's Primary School; a typical English primary school. However, he is no ordinary man, as is apparent when he flies into Class Three's boring lesson on a magic carpet, which he then turns into a bicycle, confounding the headmaster: Mr Majeika is a wizard!

After working for the BBC, Carpenter became a full-time writer in 1975, publishing several histories and a children’s adventure, Joshers: Or London to Birmingham with Albert and Victoria. His Mr Majeika stories were written when his daughters were young. Baxter was brought up in the West End of Glasgow, in a tenement. [12] He lived there from the age of five until he married actress Moira Robertson at 26 years of age. He later lived in Highgate, North London. He was married for 46 years until his wife's death in 1997 of an overdose while he was overseas. [13]

Mr Majeika | The Story Museum

We have few details about the various episodes. The stories are not all that well written, but there is a certsain charm associated with the series. This is of course a children's show. Thus the series can be enjoyed on that level. Most of the episiodes are set in or around the school. In one episode, the good Mr. Majeika takes a smartly dressed Cub troop on an outing. Hopefully HBC readers will provide us more detailed information on some of the episodes. The Kings Theatre, Glasgow: Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith published 2008 ISBN 978-0-9559420-0-6Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter (Associated-Rediffusion/Channel 5, 2019, Subject/Interviewee)