Bad Penny (comics)
Bad Penny may refer to: In aircraft * "Bad Penny" (aircraft), a nickname for an Avro Lancaster involved in Operation Manna In media and entertainment * "Bad Penny" (song), a song by Rory Gallagher * ''Bad Penny'' (TV series), an English sitcom * " Bad Penny Blues", a jazz piece by Humphrey Lyttelton * "Bad Penny", a song by noise rock band Big Black Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Nake ...

Bad Penny (aircraft)
Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were humanitarian food drops, carried out to relieve a famine in the German-occupied Netherlands, undertaken by Allied bomber crews during the final days of World War II in Europe. Manna (29 April - 7 May 1945), which dropped 7000 tonnes of food into the still Nazi-Occupied western part of the Netherlands, was carried out by British RAF units, as well as squadrons from the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and Polish air forces. Chowhound (1–8 May 1945), which dropped 4000 tonnes, was undertaken by the United States Army Air Forces, for a total of over 11,000 tonnes of food. This was done with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to help feed Dutch civilians in danger of starvation. After it was realised that Manna and Chowhound would be insufficient, a ground-based relief operation named Operation Faust was launched. On 2 May, 200 Allied trucks began delivering food to the city of Rhenen, behind German line ...
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Bad Penny (song)
Bad Penny may refer to: In aircraft * "Bad Penny" (aircraft), a nickname for an Avro Lancaster involved in Operation Manna In media and entertainment * "Bad Penny" (song), a song by Rory Gallagher * ''Bad Penny'' (TV series), an English sitcom * " Bad Penny Blues", a jazz piece by Humphrey Lyttelton * "Bad Penny", a song by noise rock band Big Black Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Nake ...

Bad Penny (TV Series)
''Bad Penny'' is a CBBC sitcom written by English comedy writer Dean Wilkinson. It ran for two series (13 episodes) from 2003 to 2004. It starred CBBC presenter Anne Foy as the happy and sweet, yet troubled, Penny Dreadful, who was constantly trying to thwart the surreal and crooked dealings of her wayward family. Penny's dim-witted and henpecked father, Pa, was played by comedian Graham Fellows a.k.a. John Shuttleworth. In each episode, Penny would also have to contend with strange and bizarre characters that stumbled through her wardrobe, an occasional portal to other worlds and dimensions. The noble Penny always strove to help characters such as a foul mouthed runaway scarecrow, a Dickensian rat-catcher chasing a giant rat called Lord Ironside, and Chips – a Geordie space pilot dog in a story that borrowed from the plot of the 1968 film, ''Planet of the Apes''. Indeed, the show's running catchphrase "This is a mad house, a mad house!" was taken directly from the film and w ...
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Bad Penny Blues
"Bad Penny Blues" is a fast instrumental blues written by Humphrey Lyttelton and recorded with his band in London on 20 April 1956. Popular success It was originally released as Parlophone ER 4184 and became a hit record in Britain at the time. It was the first British jazz record to get into the Top Twenty, and stayed there for six weeks. Its success was very much due to the very catchy boogie piano riff, played by Johnny Parker and brought to the front by producer Joe Meek. Paul McCartney based his piano part for the Beatles' song "Lady Madonna" on this riff. The official producer of the record was Denis Preston, who employed Meek as engineer. George Martin was head A&R man of Parlophone at that time, but was not involved in the actual recording. "Bad Penny Blues" was featured in Mike Figgis' film ''Red, White & Blues'' and is on the soundtrack CD of that film. It was a popular and regular feature of Lyttelton concerts, sometimes played with accompanying riffs by the ba ...
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