original release date up around the bend

#Original release date up around the bend series#

There was also at one point a talking piece of furniture, the 'Armchair Critic'. At the end of each segment, Doc Croc would ask an 'Opinion Poll' (a talking barber's pole) what he thought of them, and the pole would say 'Rubbish!'. The jokes were intentionally bad, which was the reason for them being funny. He hosted his own joke segment of the show.

'Vaudeville' Vincent Vermin: A cockney rat and the resident comic who always tried to see the bright side of every situation.

In the first three episodes, she came up out of the toilets of actor Tony Robinson, reggae band Aswad and footballer John Fashanu to interview them, but they all flushed her away. Performed by Richard Coombs and voiced by Kate Robbins. She spoke with a posh accent, which was a parody of Janet Street-Porter.

Jemima Wellington-Green: The cleverest of the three rats, she was often sarcastic and miserable about the fact that she worked in a sewer and had no hope of ever getting a boyfriend.

In one episode, he started his own political party to try and win the general election (which he named the 'Greedy Party'), but lost it by one vote to 'Screaming Lord Screwloose' (the candidate for the 'Monster Robot Loony Party') as the rats had forgotten to vote. Performed by Anthony Asbury and Kaefan Shaw, and voiced by Enn Reitel. He ran the operations of the sewer and took command of the rats who worked (unpaid) for him. Doc Croc: The show's host and a temperamental, rude, and overbearing crocodile.It was also a popular saying at the time to describe someone who was insane. Referring to a toilet U-bend, the cel-animated opening titles began with the camera being flushed down a toilet and ending up in a sewer (for the first series' opening titles, a live-action boy also sat at his kitchen table waiting for his copy of the Round the Bend! comic to be delivered, and when his mother grabbed it after it came through the letterbox just before he could, he mouthed something that made the comic give her an electric shock and forced her to drop it, and the view then changed to the now-fully-animated shot of the comic's front cover). The title of the programme is a double entendre. The animated sketches were produced by Catalyst Pictures (who made the crudely drawn cel animations and stop-motion cardboard animations) and Aardman Animations (who made the clay-animated serials, all three of which were spoofs of B-movies). The anarchic tone of the programme and its parody cartoons was like that of Viz. Round the Bend! was a satirical parody of Saturday morning magazine shows, with a host providing linking material between cartoons, music videos and news reports (albeit set in a sewer). The puppets were made by the team who made the ones for Central Television's Spitting Image. The puppets, animated characters and main sewer set were designed by Gallagher, who was also the programme's graphic designer.

The programme was created by the team behind the comic Oink! ( Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband, and Mark Rodgers). After its first run concluded, it was later repeated on Channel 4, The Children's Channel and Nickelodeon UK (the 'Yorkshire Television Production' and 'A Yorkshire Television Production for ITV' company logos were also removed from the end of the episodes in each case, and they would just fade to black where they originally were), and was nominated for an RTS Award. The programme was produced by Hat Trick Productions for Yorkshire Television.

#Original release date up around the bend series#

Round the Bend! is a satirical British children's television series, which ran on Children's ITV for three series from January 6, 1989, to May 7, 1991. For the 2002 album by Rob Brown, see Round the Bend (album). For the 2002 song by Beck, see Sea Change (album). For the Nevil Shute novel, see Round the Bend (novel). This article is about the British satirical children's television series.