One of the books was 'Marmalade Atkins in Space', which had a cover photo of her in a spaceship cabin with a couple of astronauts. Based on Frederick Grice's 1969 novel, The Courage of Andy Robson, about a young boy who is uprooted from his life in the pit community of Easington, in 1910, when his father is killed in a mining accident. alongside Dylan Moran and Emma Chambers, and voiced the lead female character, Primrose, in the animated adaptation of Brambly Hedge. Although he has received plaudits from adult critics for his script work on such TV and film projects as To Serve Them All My Days and Bridget Jones's Diary, Andrew Davies is best known to British youngsters as the creator of Miss Marmalade Atkins. As for Marmalade’s mother, she is not particularly fond of her husband or her daughter and is far more content in spending his money at Harrod’s, where she will purchase whatever expensive items she thinks will annoy Mr Atkins.

Other institutions mocked included the prison service and the Catholic Church, with the Convent of the Blessed Limit populated by burly male actors playing sadistic baseball bat-wielding nuns (nuns would surreally feature in Davies' later University satire A Very Peculiar Practice (BBC 1986; 88; 92)). I think there was a Marmalade comic strip in Look-in magazine (alongside ones about Adam Ant solving a mystery and taking everyone along to see E. Every episode of "Educating Marmalade" (and its sequel, "Danger: Marmalade at Work") begins with a "Bad Girl Warning" from Marmalade's social worker (in this series, the dreadful Mrs Allgood) but is Marmalade really a bad girl? No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. She’s sassy, confident and cool, generally finishing all her sentences with the word ‘cock’ (short for cockney I guess) acceptable then as a cheery working class endearment.For the role, she had to choose a stuffed toy for Emma to carry; she named it "Haggis" and still had it when interviewed in 1990. It is a tribute to her character that Marmalade triumphs over the awfulness of her life with such wonderful humour and a smiling, positive attitude. Educating Marmalade' also starred the wonderful Charlotte Coleman from 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and the much underrated (did anybody else see it? Children's comedy series, a sequel to EDUCATING MARMALADE, in which Marmalade Atkins, having left school, tries her hand at various jobs.

also included is the pilot episode, Marmalade Atkins in Space, first screened as part of the anthology series Theatre Box in 1981. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). As she says to two weeping teachers in one of the episodes; ‘It’s your job to try and make me good – and it’s my job to be bad. Other early work included A Choice of Evils ( Play for Today, BBC, 1977) and Two People ( London Weekend Television, 1979), as Emma Moffatt). By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.The series spawned a brace of spin-offs, including Marmalade Atkins in Space (in which her parents, at their wit's end, bundled the girl into a rocket ship bound for the far reaches of the universe!