Helping Henry

Genre

children's television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy named Stephen teaches an alien disguised as a dining room chair how things work. The alien, called N-3 or Henry, was sent by his superiors who thought four legged static objects were superior to humans.

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What happens

Helping Henry is a British children's television programme, which ran for one series of thirteen 15-minute episodes on Channel 4 in 1988. Designed as an educational show, it featured a young boy named Stephen explaining how things worked to an alien named N-3 (or "Henry"), who was disguised as a dining-room chair because his superiors believed that static four legged things were clearly a superior species to the 'two legs' who bustled about them. "Henry" was designed and built by Fluck and Law, creators of the puppets for Spitting Image, and voiced by Jeremy Hardy. The series was created and written by Edward "Chips" Hardy (the father of actor Tom Hardy) and John Henderson. One of the additional writers was Peter Algate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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