Rod Hull and Emu starred in TV shows with Carol Lee Scott for more than a decade – she played Grotbags the witch, who frequently caused havoc at the Pink Windmill
It was the kids' TV catchphrase copied by millions of children in the 1980s, as they excitedly chanted it whenever someone knocked as they came to visit. "There's somebody at the door! There's somebody at the door!"
She lived in a castle, Gloomy Fortress, and haplessly tried to use her powers to control the children, also keeping a servant called Croc in line by hitting him with her bazazzer, an umbrella-shaped stick with a pointing finger on the end.To find that out, we have to go back to the beginning. Together they created Carol's Grotbags character, with the actress and singer first appearing on TV in 1982, alongside the cowardly crocodile, a mechanical butler and a fawning manservant in Emu's World. It ran for several series.
Announcing the news on Twitter at the time, her niece Gina Mear wrote "My dear aunty Carol passed away yesterday, RIP #Grotbags, I will miss you." While another added: "I'm so sorry for your loss. Grotbags was a fantastic part of my childhood. She was my favourite part of The Pink Windmill."
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