📺 'Torchy the Battery Boy' premiere. Tuesday 23 February 1960 - ITV: 16:45 First of a new series of puppet films about Torchy, the Battery Boy, who wears a helmet with a bulb in it and whose beam turns out to be a magic one. Torchy travelled by rocket to Topsey Turvey Land where cakes grew on trees. Torchy's pals included Pom Pom, a French poodle, Flopsey, Pilliwig, Squishand Pongo. Gerry Anderson directed the first twenty-six episodes before giving way to Associated British Pathe. Despite the