''Badger Girl'' was a ten-part educational BBC ''
Look and Read
''Look and Read'' is a BBC Television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving children's literacy skills. The programme presents fictional stories in a serial format, the first of which was broadcast in 1967 and the most recent in 20 ...
'' production, which was first aired on
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
in 1984.
Plot
Three children are on holiday on a farm in
Dartmoor
Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers .
The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous ...
. They discover two crooks who are pony-rustling, and are determined to stop them.
Educational songs featured the character Stripey the 'superbadger'.
Episodes
# Sounds in the Night
# Stripey the Badger
# Running Away
# The Badgerman
# Lost on the Moor
# The Secret Passage
# Mick's Map
# Finding the Ponies
# Panic on the Lake
# Stripey the Superbadger
Further reading
Badger Girlat Broadcast for Schools - containing airdates, summaries and full cast information
References
BBC Television
Television shows written by Andrew Davies
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