The Blunders
| The Blunders | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Children's television |
| Created by |
Colin Voisey Haydn Morgan |
| Written by | Ian Sachs |
| Directed by | Ian Sachs |
| Voices of | Frankie Howerd |
| Narrated by | Frankie Howerd |
| Composer(s) | Chris Stuart |
| Country of origin | England |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Graham Clutterbuck |
| Producer(s) | Barrie Edwards |
| Editor(s) | Robert Dunbar |
| Camera setup | Mark Taylor |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | FilmFair |
| Distributor | Castle Vision (VHS) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | PAL (576i) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | 2 April 1986 – 1987 |
| External links | |
| The Blunders at DHX Media | |
The Blunders is an animated children's television series co-produced by FilmFair and Central Independent Television, and broadcast on ITV in 1986.
Colin Voisey and Haydn Morgan created the show's characters: Ma Blunder, Pa Blunder, Bobby Blunder, Baby Blunder, a cat named Zebra, a dog named Trouble, and an eye-patched bird named Patch. They all live together in the town of Villa Shambles, where they keep finding trouble because of their clumsiness. In the episode "The Blunder Family Tree", the Blunders find that their ancestors lived in the Roman Empire.[1]
Episode list
There are 30 episodes in the series:
- At the Circus
- An Aunt in Time
- Beau Blunder
- A Blunder at the Manor
- The Blunder Family Tree
- The Blunder House of Horror
- A Blunder on the Landscape
- A Blunder on the Run
- Bobby and the Prune Stone
- The Bugs Meringue Gang
- The Burglar
- Central Heating
- Dog Bath
- Dog Diet
- Dogs Don't Migrate
- The Double Act
- The Gene
- The Idle Idol
- Invasion of the Burger Snatchers
- The Invisible Blunder
- Life on Spudnock
- Looking After Doris
- Lucky
- Ma Goes Ape
- Never Kiss a Frog
- School Report
- Stage Struck
- The Trouble with Trouble
- UFO Spotting
- Ye Blunder and Ye Dragon
Video releases
Castle Vision and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment distributed episodes of the series on VHS videotape. Each tape features 10–13 episodes.
See also
Notes
- ↑ "The Blunders: 'The Blunder Family Tree'". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
References
- Diamond, Frazer. "The Blunders". Toonhound. Frazer Diamond. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- The Blunders at the BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- The Blunders at the Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- The Blunders at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
External links
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