Gabrielle and the Doodleman is a children's film, that was released in 1984 and directed and written by Francis Essex.
[4][5] The story is about Gabrielle, a paraplegic girl after a car accident at age three and is wheelchair bound.
[12] It was released on VHS video in 1984[13] and it was shown on U.K. terrestrial TV network for the first time on ITV on 30 December 1988.
[18] In 2023, it was released on the box set DVD "Children's Film Foundation Vol 4" on 27 February[19] with a positive reviews such as "..it has a cast list to die for.
"[20] Graham Rickson writing for "The Arts Desk" wrote "Gabrielle and the Doodleman makes for an intriguing epilogue, worth investigating for a cast which includes Windsor Davies, Eric Sykes, Matthew Kelly and Lynsey de Paul.
And I also love the bit at the beginning, when Gabrielle is looking into the window of the video shop, and you see all the cassettes for rental!
Matthew Kelly, Gareth Hunt, Windsor Davies, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Josephine Tewson… and Lynsey De Paul!