Aired the 14th April 1985

The episode starring Spike was called - 'SUPERGRAN AND THE MISSING HISSING'

Main Cast:
GUDRUN URE - Supergran
IAIN CUTHBERTSON - The Scunner
SPIKE MILLIGAN - Zoo Keeper
BILL SHINE - Inventor Black
ROY EVANS - Roland Rattray
ALAN SNELL, BRIAN LEWIS - Renta Muscles
TERRY JOYCE - P.C. Leekie
GWEN DORAN - Mrs. Preston
GILLIAN REMINGT

Adapting the Super Gran series of children's books by Forrest Wilson (first published in 1978, there have been ten, at the last count), Tyne Tees scored great success with two long series of Supergran (one word). The stories relate the adventures of a happy and gentle old lady, known as Granny Smith, who, out one day for a stroll in the park, is given great powers when a magic-ray machine - the brainchild of Inventor Black but stolen by the villainous Scunner Campbell - is accidentally fired at her. Granny's life is never the same again as she metamorphoses into Supergran in order to fight the Scunner Campbell, his assistants Muscles and Dustin and other evil elements, and so protect the good citizens of her home-town Chisleton. (Actual location shooting was done in Tynemouth.) The series made especially good use of the latest available effects, courtesy of which Supergran could be seen to pole-vault herself through very high windows, ride through the air on her tricks-laden, two-wheel, multi-winged Flycycle (actually an adapted butcher's boy's bicycle), and whizz around land and sea in her Skimmer mobile.

Each weekly episode was a self-contained crime-fighting story, made additionally watchable by the remarkable array of guest stars who were happy to take part. These included Billy Connolly (who also co-wrote the series' theme music), Michael Elphick, Roy Kinnear, Sheila Steafel, Irene Handl, Burt Kwouk, Pat Coombs, Spike Milligan, Anna Dawson, Rikki Fulton, Paul Shane, Ken Campbell, Bernard Cribbins, Leslie Phillips, Melvyn Hayes, Anna Karen, Harry Fowler, Michael Medwin, Joan Sims, Patrick Troughton (in his last TV appearance before his death), John Bluthal, Tim Healy, singers Lulu, Gary Glitter and John Otway, sports stars George Best, Geoff Capes, John Conteh, Eric Bristow and Willie Thorne, stuntman Eddie Kidd and two Carry On stars, Barbara Windsor and, making his last ever scripted appearance on TV/film, Charles Hawtrey.