Merrysweets Telegum TV Stars

Issuing Company: Merrysweets Country of Issue: England Year of Issue: 1958 Color/B&W: Color Number of Cards in Set: 48 Card Size: 2" x 3 13/16" Issued as insert with what product:

Notes: These cards showed British TV stars, including a young Peter Sellers. An album was issued with this set.

In the January/February 1959 issue of the "Notes and News magazine from the Cameric Cigarette Card Club, the following tidbit was presented. "Mr. W. Morgan writes explaining the reason for some of the cards being printed without the I.T.V. crest on the back. He states that the cards without the I.T.V. crest refer to artists who although T.V. stars has not actually appeared on I.T.V. at the time of going to press."

Date info: This set was reported as a new issue in the September/October 1958 issue of the "Notes and News magazine from the Cameric Cigarette Card Club. In the January/February 1959 issue of the same magazine,

Thanks to Barry Beckett for help with this checklist.

1. Bob Monkhouse
2. Lester Ferguson
3. Patti Lewis
4. Peter Butterworth
5. Winifred Atwell
6. Jimmy Hanley
7. Avril Angers
8. Jerry Desmonde
9. Tony Hancock
10. Harry Secombe
11. Jack Webb
12. Kenneth Connor
13. Bernard Braden
14. Hughie Green
15. Charlie Drake and Jack Edwardes
16. Martin Huston
17. Snoozy
18. Muriel Young
19. Rusty and Rin-Tin-Tin
20. Richard Hearne
21. Vera Lynn
22. Norman Wisdom
23. Catherine Boyle
24. Ben Alexander
25. Richard Murdoch
26. Sabrina
27. Jewel and Wariss
28. Tommy Cooper
29. Spike Milligan
30. Johnny Weissmuller
31. Eve Boswell
32. Rommy Trinder
33. Michael Bentine
34. Rex Allen
35. David Nixon
36. Barbara Lyon
37. Alfred Marks
38. William Boyd
39. Dick Jones
40. Dennis Weaver
41. Peter Sellers
42. Paddie O'Neil
43. Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen
44. James Arness
45. Robert Cummings
46. Arthur Askey
47. Alma Cogan
48. Douglas Kennedy

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