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== Fortycoats and the flying trick shop ==

I'm not even too sure of the grammar for the above title, but it's one children's programme I'd almost completely forgotten about. It was also quite bizarre... Does anyone remember anything beyond the fact that it had a "flying trick shop" and an old man who wore forty coats? [[User:Zoney|'''zoney''']] <span style="font-size:large; color:green;">&#09827;</span> [[User talk:Zoney|'''talk''']] 23:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I can't remember much of it (before my time), but didn't two teenage girls follow him, one called Slightly Bonkers? [[User:Kiand|Kiand]] 07:31, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

IIRR it was called "Fortycoats and Co.", and it was a flying ''tuck'' shop.  The character came from [[Wanderly Wagon]] originally.  Fran Dempsey played him in the eponymous show, but I think someone else did on WW.  His catchphrase was "Be me 40 coats and 50 pockets".  His sidekicks were Slightly Bonkers, a Dyub skewlgurl played by ...pause for research... Virginia Cole, and Sofar Sogood, a junior Kevin Myers type.  His enemy was The Whirligig Witch and her occasional superior the Svedish Vitch.  I think the witch had a talking cat for keeping the whole puppet vibe.  Personally I dunno how anyone can talk about this mediocre show while [[Wanderly Wagon]] remains red.  Ugh! there it is again.  [[User:Joestynes|Joestynes]] 09:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC). As a tangent, there's a rather decent Wanderly Wagon site with a number of pictures at [http://www.irish-tv.com/wander.htm]. [[User:cmdrjameson|cmdrjameson]] 00:23, 29 Sep 2004.

According to the mother, who can remember the 1970's and before, Fortycoats was also the name of a real Dublin character, some old weirdo who hung around the place. She also told me I had an RTE book on Fortycoats when I was younger, something I really don't remember. [[User:Kiand|Kiand]] 17:37, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)