King Cinder

{{Short description|1977 British children's TV series}}

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| writer = John Prowse

| director = John Prowse

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| starring = Peter Duncan
Lesley Manville

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| num_episodes = 6

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| producer = Anna Home

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| location = Rye House Speedway, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, also Beauchamps Comprehensive, Wickford, Essex and Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.

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| channel = BBC1

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King Cinder is a six-part British children's television serial made by the BBC in 1977. It was first shown between 2 November and 7 December 1977 on BBC1.{{cite web|last1=Fiction|first1=Speedway|title=King Cinder|url=https://www.speedwayfiction.co.uk/kingcinder.html|website=speedwayfiction.co.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=29 March 2017|archive-date=30 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330084104/https://www.speedwayfiction.co.uk/kingcinder.html|url-status=dead}}

A gritty series, King Cinder by John Foster, pitches two teenagers, played by Peter Duncan (Kerry) a speedway bike rider and Lesley Manville (Nicky) his girlfriend against a criminal gang running an extortion racket run by nasty Todd Edwards (Michael Hawkins) and Hells Angel Daniel Abineri in a South Coast fictional seaside town called Barton. The series concludes with a climatic ending where Edwards driving a red Austin Maxi chases a running Kerry through a quarry only to see Edwards crash over a cliff.{{cite web|title=SpeedwayPlus {{!}} King Cinder|url=http://www.speedwayplus.com/king_cinder.shtml|website=speedwayplus.com}}

The executive producer was Anna Home.