The Bash Street Kids - Other Appearances and Spin-offs

Other Appearances and Spin-offs

The strip has had various spin-offs over the years, including Pup Parade, Simply Smiffy, Plug, and Singled Out. The Bash Street Kids Annual was originally published bi-annually (as The Bash Street Kids Book in those days) but is now out every August and summer specials also used to be printed annually during the 1990s. These featured solo stories for the kids and are therefore a forerunner to the Singled Out strip. Most of these strips were drawn by Tom Paterson, who later drew the Singled Out strip itself.

Between 1968 and 1972, The Beano ran a similar series entitled The Belles of St. Lemons, which featured many similarities to The Bash Street Kids.

The Dandy has run two similar series firstly Whacko a strip about a teacher who always taught in a suit of armour and taught very unruly kids who always attempted to beat up their teacher but ended up being caned repeatedly which ran in the 1970s. Secondly between 1998 and 2000 a strip entitled P5, which also featured a class of schoolchildren and their long-suffering teacher. P5 was reprinted in 2006 under the title of Class Act.