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Chic Littlewood

Presenter, Actor

Between 1975 and 1983, London-born variety artist Chic Littlewood entertained a generation of Kiwi kids, writing and presenting 500 plus episodes of his after school shows Now C Here, Chicaboom and Chic Chat — appearing with Alma Woods, puppet Willie McNabb, and as Gramps. In 1993 Littlewood enjoyed a primetime career revival, after starting a three year stint on Shortland Street. He passed away on 11 January 2015.

People need to laugh. It does us all good, provided it's kind humour. Chic Littlewood, in a 1975 NZ Women’s Weekly interview