William Dear

Harry and the Hendersons / We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story / Little... William Dear

A four-volume collection of children's features. In 'Harry and the Hendersons' (1987), when George Henderson (John Lithgow) and his family run over a huge yeti-like creature on their camping holiday, they decide to take him home to Seattle. There, the creature - known as 'Harry' (Kevin Peter Hall) - wreaks good-natured havoc until nosy neighbours endanger his safety.

In the animated adventure 'We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story' (1993), Louie (voice of Joey Shea) and Cecilia (Yeardley Smith) are two daydreaming kids desperate to meet exciting new friends - and they do, in the form of four pre-historic reptiles who stumble into modern day New York. 'The Little Rascals' (1994), is a remake of the 1920s silent film and the 1930s talkie series, featuring Spanky (Travis Tedford), Alfalfa (Bug Hall), Buckwheat (Ross Bagley), Darla (Brittany Ashton Holmes), Stymie (Kevin Jamal Woods), Porky (Zachary Mabry) and Petey the dog. Here they get up to all sorts of trouble when their clubhouse is destroyed, and their prized go-kart is stolen by some local bullies, thus preventing them from winning the big race.

Finally, in 'Stuart Little' (1999), when Mr and Mrs Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis) visit an orphanage to find a brother for their son, George (Jonathan Lipnicki), they come away with a charming talking mouse called Stuart. After initial misgivings, George and Stuart begin to get on famously, and everything seems to be going perfectly - but unknown to the family, the neighbourhood cats have ganged together with the sole intention of getting rid of Stuart.