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Here's the first of a new-style Young Cook's Club, says Chef Cat. From time to time Kathie Webber will be talking to your favourite personalities about their ideas on food. This week she chats to the stars of the forthcoming Southern Star TV series, "The Famous Five".

The Famous Five

I read The Famous Five books and loved them, yet when I went down to meet the characters on the set of the Rothschild Estate in Hampshire, I was looking around for five children. I'd completely forgotten that the "five" is really four and a dog. Anne, Dick, Julian and George, who's really Georgina but wishes she was a boy, must have spent half a day walking about 10 yards wheeling their bikes and speaking about twenty words to each other for one scene. But because of planes circling overhead trying to land at two local airports, Timmy the dog not doing what he should or someone fluffing their lines, they had to do the same thing eight or nine times until everything was perfect.

The lunch-time call came just as everyone was getting ratty. I strolled back to the house with them to find out what foods they like best. "We stay at a hotel,” Michele immediately told me (she plays George). "The food's posh and we like chips but they won't let us have them so we go to the chippie in the village. Our producer says that fried foods are bad for us. He doesn't want us breaking out in spots and having to do a big make-up job on us."
Jennifer Thanisch, who plays Anne, seems to have captured a soft spot in the hearts of the caterers. "They prepare salad rolls especially for me and quiche lorraine, (a sort of bacon and egg flan) which is my favourite. They're super caterers – they put little flowers by my food sometimes."

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Marcus Harris, who plays Julian, knew from the age of 3 that he wanted to be an actor. Michele would like to act part-time – "this is my first part, you know" – and the run stables with her own horses. Gary, playing Dick, wants to be a director and Jennifer, small and pretty, wants to be a dancer. Timmy the dog, who in real life is Tod, just wants an easy life.
If you saw "The Railway Children" then you already know Tod. "He works by sausages," Gary says. "When his owner wants him to do anything he uses a sausage. One of the actors has to be knocked over by Timmy in the story so he had to have a sausage on his shoulder, under his jacket, so that Timmy would jump up to look as if he was trying to bring him to the ground. He's the biggest sausage-eater I know."
All the children do three hours a day schooling as well as their acting when term-time starts, but they still have to make up their schooling at other times. So if you think, "how lovely to be one of The Famous Five," there's a snag. It doesn't get them out of school completely.
Forbidden foods are always favourite, and so I promised them a recipe for the best chips ever. The best chips are always chunky, soft on the inside, crisp on the outside and golden brown. Here's how to do it!

Source: Look-in Nr. 4, 1978

Southern Television's The Famous Five wouldn't be complete without its lovable Border collie, and the role of Timmy – who can be brave when he wants to – is amply filled by Toddy. Toddy lives at Gameguards Kennels, Bishop's Stortford, and is owned by Joan and Ben Woodgate. He's a seasoned performer himself, and quite used to working with children in front of the cameras, for he played the family pet in Lionel Jeffries' highly praised film The Railway Children. In The Famous Five, Toddy has ample opportunity to help his four friends track down crooks and solve strange mysteries. And now we've tracked down this super picture of Toddy in answer to the many requests we’ve had!

Source: Look-in Nr. 46, 1978

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