Irritating but compelling
I must have watched nearly every episode of this when it was on, but looking back on it, all I remember about it is how much everything irritated me. Mr Meaker irritated me, Hazel the McWitch really irritated me, and Mr Claypole absolutely drove me to distraction.
I think I was too young to realise why Mr Mumford and Mr Davenport (both of whom I did like and didn't irritate me) weren't in it any more, and I think I must have laboured through the Claypole years in the vain hope that they were going to return someday.
...they were ghosts, after all...
Just a painted face on a trip down suicide row