The Queen's Nose
Encyclopedia
The Queen's Nose is a book, written by Dick King-Smith
, that was adapted into a successful BBC
television series.
Harmony believes animals are more interesting than humans and so the people she meets she pictures as animals. Her father is a Sea Lion, her mother is a Pouter Pigeon and her sister is a Siamese cat.
She receives a magic coin from her Uncle Ginger that grants her seven wishes.
The novels were adapted into three television series by the BBC
which were broadcast during the CBBC
slot between 1995 and 1998. The stories remained faithful to the book, with the same seven wishes being granted upon rubbing the coin. The first series won the Royal Television Society
1996 award for best Children's Drama,
and the third series winning the Indie Awards 1999 prize for Digital Cinematography.
In 2000, the BBC revived the series with new stories, but without the main character Harmony, with a further four series being made between 2000 and 2003. Many viewers felt that the departure from the novels and the loss of the main character, played by Victoria Shalet
, diminished the series. The later series did however still feature other members of the Parker family in various roles. Harmony's sister Melody, played by Heather-Jay Jones, stayed on until the penultimate series. The Queen's Nose is no longer being repeated on the CBBC Channel
as of 2010.
The Queen's Nose has also been broadcast in Germany, under the name Die Magische Münze (The Magic Coin).
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 1
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 15, 1995
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 20, 1995
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 2
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 13, 1996
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 18, 1996
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 3
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 18, 1998
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 23, 1998
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 4
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 13, 2000
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 18, 2000
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 5
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | September 24, 2001
| style="text-align: center; top" | October 29, 2001
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | September 23, 2002
| style="text-align: center; top" | October 30, 2002
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 7
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 11, 2003
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 16, 2003
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and the hour-long drama was broadcast on Radio 4 Extra on Sunday June 26th 2011. The programme was produced by Heather Larmour.
Dick King-Smith
Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...
, that was adapted into a successful BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television series.
The book
The book by Dick King Smith features the story of Harmony Parker, a 10 year old girl who wants an animal of her own but is not allowed by her parents who think they are dirty. Harmony has a 15 year old sister, Melody who spends most of her time looking in a mirror. Harmony's best friend is a toy dog, Rex Ruff Monty.Harmony believes animals are more interesting than humans and so the people she meets she pictures as animals. Her father is a Sea Lion, her mother is a Pouter Pigeon and her sister is a Siamese cat.
She receives a magic coin from her Uncle Ginger that grants her seven wishes.
The television series
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
which were broadcast during the CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
slot between 1995 and 1998. The stories remained faithful to the book, with the same seven wishes being granted upon rubbing the coin. The first series won the Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
1996 award for best Children's Drama,
and the third series winning the Indie Awards 1999 prize for Digital Cinematography.
In 2000, the BBC revived the series with new stories, but without the main character Harmony, with a further four series being made between 2000 and 2003. Many viewers felt that the departure from the novels and the loss of the main character, played by Victoria Shalet
Victoria Shalet
Victoria Shalet is an English actress most famous for her role as Harmony in the award-winning CBBC adaptation of the Dick King-Smith book The Queen's Nose.- Career :...
, diminished the series. The later series did however still feature other members of the Parker family in various roles. Harmony's sister Melody, played by Heather-Jay Jones, stayed on until the penultimate series. The Queen's Nose is no longer being repeated on the CBBC Channel
CBBC Channel
CBBC is a BBC television channel aimed at 6 to 12 year olds. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. Launched on 11 February 2002, it broadcasts from 7am to 7pm on Freeview, cable, IPTV and digital satellite, occupying the same bandwidth as, but a different...
as of 2010.
The Queen's Nose has also been broadcast in Germany, under the name Die Magische Münze (The Magic Coin).
Cast
- Melody Parker - Heather-Jay Jones (series 1 - 6)
- Harmony Parker - Victoria ShaletVictoria ShaletVictoria Shalet is an English actress most famous for her role as Harmony in the award-winning CBBC adaptation of the Dick King-Smith book The Queen's Nose.- Career :...
(series 1 - 4) - Mr Arthur Parker - Stephen MooreStephen Moore (actor)Stephen Moore is an English actor, known for his work on British television since the 1980s. He is known for his appearances in Rock Follies and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the children's series The Queen's Nose and the drama Mersey Beat and the British TV comedy series Solo,...
(series 1 - 2, 4 - 5) - Mrs Audrey Parker - Paula WilcoxPaula WilcoxPaula Wilcox is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Chrissy in the British comedy Man About the House .-Early sitcom fame:...
(series 1, 2, 4, 5) - Granny - Liz SmithLiz Smith (actress)Liz Smith, MBE is a British actress, best-known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family. She also appeared in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.-Early life:...
(series 2) - Aunt Glenda - Nerys HughesNerys HughesNerys Hughes , is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles.Nerys Hughes was born in Rhyl, . She studied drama at Rose Bruford College. She is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a...
(series 3) - Uncle Ginger - Donald SumpterDonald SumpterDonald Sumpter is a British actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid 1960s.-Life and work:One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea...
(series 1 - 3) - Himself - Gary MabbuttGary MabbuttGary Mabbutt MBE is an English former professional footballer who made more than 600 appearances in the Football League and Premier League playing for Bristol Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur, and won 16 caps for the England national team. He was most regularly seen in central defence but was a...
(series 1) - Gregory - Callum DixonCallum Dixon-Theatre:Dixon's work in theatre includes: Market Boy, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Wind in the Willows, The Day I Stood Still, Somewhere, The Recruiting Officer and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London; The Bright and...
(series 1, 2, 3, 6) - Tom - Anthony Hamblin (series 1, 2)
- Sam - Ella Jones/Josie Lloyd (series 4 - 6, 7)
- Sophie - Dominique MooreDominique MooreDominique Moore is a British actress best known for playing Chanel O'Grady in the ITV2 television drama Footballers' Wives: Extra Time.Dominique is a former pupil of Sylvia Young Theatre School. The BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary series Paddington Green followed her as she tried to win a...
(series 4 - 6, 7) - Mrs Dooley - Annette BadlandAnnette BadlandAnnette Badland is an English actress best known for her work in children's television.-Biography:Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London...
(series 4, 5) - Aaron - Darryl Hutton (series 4)
- Dino - Vicki Lee TaylorVicki Lee TaylorVicki Lee Taylor is a British theatre and television actress.-Life & Career:Taylor was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and at the age of twelve appeared in the leading role of Emma in Listen to the Wind and recorded the cast album at the Abbey Road Studios...
(series 3) - Melody's Agent - Paul DananPaul DananPaul Danan is a British actor who played Sol Patrick in the United Kingdom teen soap opera Hollyoaks between 1997 and 2001...
(series 6) - Jake - Jordan MetcalfeJordan MetcalfeJordan Metcalfe is an English actor. He has a younger sister and a younger brother. He currently stars as Adil the Genie in the children's comedy Genie in the House, screened in the UK and the Netherlands on Nickelodeon, in Germany on Nick Germany, in France on Canal J and Spain on Antena 3...
(series 7) - Gemma - Lucinda DryzekLucinda DryzekLucinda "Lucy" Dryzek is an English actress. Probably best known for playing Katy Riley in the BBC sitcom Life of Riley.-Personal life:...
(series 7) - Chief - David Sterne (series 7)
- Wesley - Joshua Garland (series 7)
- Duncan - Nicholas GleavesNicholas GleavesNicholas Gleaves is an English actor best known for his role as Rick Powell in the television drama series Playing the Field. He also appeared as Tom Bedford in The Chase, from 2006-2007....
(series 7) - Nick - Brock Everitt-Elwick (series 7)
- Carla - Juliet CowanJuliet Cowan-Career:She may be recognizable to fans of ITV1 cop drama The Bill when she guest starred in over 20 episodes as Julie Saunders, the mother of the boy who accused PC Tony Stamp of sexual assault...
(series 7) - Ben - Pablo Duarte (series 6, 7)
- Mr Marsh - Bill Bingham (series 7)
- Darren - Andrew James Michel (series 7)
- Frank - Martin Jarvis (series 7)
- Frank Puppeteer - William Todd-JonesWilliam Todd-JonesWilliam Todd-Jones is a British puppet designer, performer, director, movement consultant and writer, for film, television and theatre in the UK and abroad....
(series 7) - Pansy - Grace Atherton (series 4 - 6)
- Emily- Montanna ThompsonMontanna ThompsonMontanna Thompson is an English actress best known for her role as "Justine Littlewood", Tracy's biggest rival, in CBBC's popular TV adaption of Jaqueline Wilson's book, The Story of Tracy Beaker. Montanna first appeared in The Story of Tracy Beaker in 2002, also appearing as Justine in the 2004...
(5 episodes- 2000)
Owners of The Queen's Nose
- Harmony Parker (series 1 to 2)
- Dino Parker (series 3 alongside Harmony)
- Sam (series 4 to 6)
- Jake (series 7)
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| The Queen's Nose | 15 September 1997 | United Kingdom | U | Carlton | PAL | English | None | Series 1, Episode 1 & 2 | |
| The Queen's Nose | 11 November 2002 | United Kingdom | U | ITC | PAL | English | None | Series 1 | |
| The Queen's Nose - Harmony's Return | 11 November 2002 | United Kingdom | U | ITC | PAL | English | None | Series 2 | |
| The Queen's Nose - Harmony's Holiday | 11 November 2002 | United Kingdom | U | ITC | PAL | English | None | Series 3 |
Series
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! colspan="2" |Seasons !! Episodes !! First air date !! Last air date
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| style="text-align: center; top" | 1
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 15, 1995
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 20, 1995
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 2
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 13, 1996
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 18, 1996
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 3
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 18, 1998
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 23, 1998
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 4
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 13, 2000
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 18, 2000
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 5
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | September 24, 2001
| style="text-align: center; top" | October 29, 2001
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | September 23, 2002
| style="text-align: center; top" | October 30, 2002
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| style="background-color: #2880FF; color: #100; text-align: center; top" |
| style="text-align: center; top" | 7
| style="text-align: center; top" | 6
| style="text-align: center; top" | November 11, 2003
| style="text-align: center; top" | December 16, 2003
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Radio Dramatisation
In 2011 The Queen's Nose was adapted for radio by Elizabeth KutiElizabeth Kuti
-Life:English born Kuti graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English, and completed her MA at King's College London. She is of partial Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather....
and the hour-long drama was broadcast on Radio 4 Extra on Sunday June 26th 2011. The programme was produced by Heather Larmour.
Radio Dramatisation Cast
- Harmony Parker - Lauren MoteLauren MoteLauren Mote is a British child actress who has a starring role in the Disney direct to DVD film Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue....
- Uncle Ginger - Rupert GravesRupert GravesRupert Graves is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as DI Lestrade in the critically acclaimed television series Sherlock.-Early life:...
- Mr Parker - Richard LumsdenRichard LumsdenRichard James Lumsden is a British actor, writer, composer and musician. He played Nathan in Channel 4's drama Sugar Rush and on radio he plays Ray in Clare in the Community.-Career:...
- Mrs Parker - Matilda ZieglerMatilda ZieglerMatilda Ziegler is a British television, stage and film actress best known for her roles as Irma Gobb in Mr. Bean and as Donna Ludlow in the long-running BBC1 serial EastEnders and Ruth in the BBC Three sitcom Swiss Toni.-Television career:Matilda Ziegler's first screen role remains her most...
- Melody Parker - Holly BodimeadeHolly BodimeadeHolly Bodimeade is a British actress. She starred in her first lead role as "Maddy" in the BAFTA-nominated BBC TV drama Summerhillabout the radical school of the same name....