Life-size Smurfs who are touring the country brought their show to town this week and it was so successful they will be back next year!

Children on half-term holidays have bundled into Watersmeet, Rickmansworth, day after day to watch King of the Smurfs, alias producer Mel Harvey, and his furry friends provide all-round family entertainment The All Star Smurf Show.

The show, created by Mel, has been a box office sell-out at the theatre and Watersmeet bosses have already invited him back next year with Smurfs in Space. Our picture shows Mel with some of his Smurfs and children from the audience during the show.

[From the Watford Observer of February 22, 1985]