TV viewers’ minds blown as they realise Charley the cat from public info ads was voiced by very famous star
ok.co.ukTV viewers have had their minds blown after realising Charley the cat from public info ads was voiced by none other than Kenny Everett.The English radio DJ and TV entertainer was a household voice, becoming one of the first DJs to join BBC Radio's newly created BBC Radio 1 in 1967.
For those too young to remember, Charley Says was a series of six public information films telling the tale of Tony (voiced by the seven-year-old son of one of the neighbours of producer Richard Taylor) and his cat Charley (voiced by Kenny) as they got themselves into various life-threatening situations.
They were produced by the British government's Central Office of Information and broadcast across the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s In one memorable ad, Charley the cat saved Tony when he warned him against going off with a dodgy-looking man in the park.
In another, he stopped Tony from going to a picnic without telling his mother about his whereabouts first. "Charley says, 'Always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere so she knows who you are with,” Tony concluded in the video.The famous episode, titled "Mummy Should Know" was famously sampled by electronic dance group The Prodigy for their UK 1991 hit single Charly which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.
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