It was created and scripted by Anthony C. Wilson (1916–1986),[1] a schoolmaster at Feltonfleet Preparatory School, Cobham, Surrey, and a writer[2] and amateur filmmaker.
[3] Each episode finds cousins Norman and Henry Bones, aged 16 and 14 respectively, on a different adventure, either in the fictitious fenland village of Sedgewick, or elsewhere.
Charles Hawtrey played Norman Bones from the first episode through to "A Case of Coins" (1960), after which he left the series.
Peter Mullins played Henry Bones in the first two episodes, with Robert Raikes taking over in the third.
Of the 108 episodes listed in the BBC Archive,[4] only one complete programme, "The Cry of the Curlew" (originally broadcast 22 July 1950), is available for listening.