this was written by the guy who wrote the Day of the Triffids and Midwich Cuckoos/Village of the Damned - I don't think he knew how to do non-scary kids entertainment.
I don't think how you could mistake this for Mr. Water's work during the 80's. This doesn't include any references to World War II, a shadowy, frigid female presence or an overwrought dependence on gospel singers.
Listen here, kid. You can't just go around having your disembodied head be all psychedelic wherever you please. You're not Tom Baker. You're not nearly drunk enough to pull that off.
Britain's most beloved children show icon was a disembodied shrunken head named Chico. Chico pakamanawanalaya.
And in one episode he got sewn into a soccer ball and the neighbourhood kids kicked him all around the town until he landed on an empty lamp-post and someone mistook him for a real lamp and lit him on fire.