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  • Archer's Goon Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)
  • TV Episode | Family, Fantasy

Archer's Goon

Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | Family, Fantasy

Schoolboy Howard Sykes returns home from school one day with sister Awful (Audrey) to find a mysterious figure waiting for them in their kitchen. He is waiting for their father Quentin, a writer, for payment of 2,000 - not pounds, but ...See moreSchoolboy Howard Sykes returns home from school one day with sister Awful (Audrey) to find a mysterious figure waiting for them in their kitchen. He is waiting for their father Quentin, a writer, for payment of 2,000 - not pounds, but words - and tells them he is Archer's Goon, sent to collect as his manuscript has not arrived. But they do not know anyone called Archer, and when he arrives home neither does their father. Quentin tells him he usually only sends it to Mountjoy, but it seems that Mountjoy is only a middleman - so who is Archer? And why is he so eager for the manuscript? See less
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Director
Writers
Diana Wynne Jones (based on the novel by) | Jenny McDade (dramatised by)
Producer
Richard Callanan (producer)
Status
Edit Released
Updated Jan 8, 1992

Release date
Jan 8, 1992 (United Kingdom)
Awards
Series awards
1 nomination

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