159 Bonny !

First  watched : Monday  4th  March  1974

It  was  somehow  typical  of  the  BBC  to  replace  the  serious-minded  Carrie's  War  with  this  Scotch  silliness  produced  and  sometimes  co-written by Paul  Ciani.

Bonny   was  prim  postmistress  Flora  Havers  ( played  by  Una  McLean )  who  has  a  crimefighting  alter  ego  Captain  Bonny  whose  fame  she  then  exploits. All  I  really  remember  about  it  is  that  she  had  a  voice  like  chalk  screeching  down  a  blackboard  and  it  was  all  rather  manic.

Apart  from  the  synopses  on  Genome  there's  absolutely  nothing  to  be  found  on  the  series. It  doesn't  have  an  entry  on IMDB  or  a  wikipedia  page. The  most  intriguing  thing  I  can  glean  is  that  the  second  episode  featured  a  guest  appearance  from  Kevin  Keegan  who  was  rapidly  eclipsing  Best  as  football's  pin-up  boy  but  shouldn't  it  have  been  someone  from  Scotland ? A  certain  Mr  Dalglish  perhaps  ?

The  initial  run  was  four  episodes  long  in  March  in  1974 .It  returned  for  six  more  that  August  then  was  never  seen  again. Una  McLean  is  still  working in  radio  at  85  with  a  long  history  of  pantomime  and  character  parts  behind  her. She  was  married  to  Callan's   Russell  Hunter from  1991  until  his  death  in  2004  and  received  an  MBE  in  2006.