Big Kids is a family drama show which aired on CBBC on BBC One

CBBC

CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...

, from 27 September to 20 December, 2000. Although only thirteen episodes were ever made, the show is one of CBBC's most repeated, due to its particular popularity.

Plot

Big Kids follows the lives of two siblings, Simon and Kate, whose parents have been hypnotized at a school show with the spell not properly broken, causing them to act like young children at seemingly random moments. The program shows the trial and tribulations the two kids have to cope with looking after their two 'big kids', whilst trying to work out what is happening and how to stop it. Simon and Kate eventually find out that the parent's 'big kids' moments are caused by any word with 'ming' in it (such as swimMING) - as the name of the hypnotist causing the problems was "Ming."

Episode list

1. Performance by a Hypnotist
2. Kate Avoids Friends
3. Videotaping Mum and Dad
4. Library/Shopping
5. Restaurant
6. New Car/Concert
7. Museum
8. Aunt Muriel's Visit
9. Chicken Pox - Kate has chicken pox and Simon finds himself faced with a difficult task .
10. Puppy
11. Simon Pursues Melanie
12. Trigger Revealed
13. Finding Hypnotist

Cast

• Duncan Duff
  Duncan Duff
  Duncan Duff is a British actor. He trained for his career at the RADA. His first professional job was with Cheek By Jowl. He worked with the company 5 times between 1987 and 1991. Roles included Caliban in the Tempest and Horatio in Hamlet...
  
   - Dr. Geoff Spiller
• Imogen Stubbs
  Imogen Stubbs
  Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn is an English actress and playwright.-Early life:Imogen Stubbs was born in Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames...
  
   - Sarah Spiller
• Matt Adams - Simon Spiller
• Kelly Salmon
  Kelly Salmon
  Kelly Salmon is an English actress and fashion model. She appeared in the first TV commercial for NSPCC in 1993.-Early life:...
  
   - Kate Spiller
• Sam Green - Jake Tyler
• Jasper Britton
  Jasper Britton
  Jasper Britton, in is an actor.Britton is the son of veteran actor Tony Britton, and Danish sculptor and member of the World War II Danish Resistance Eva Castle Britton...
  
  - Ming
• Amanda Fairbank-Hynes - Becky