''Creepy Crawlies'' was a

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animation series created by

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. The series consisted of 52 ten-minute episodes, which were broadcast on

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between 1987 and 1989. All episodes were written by Peter Reeves and directed by Franc Vose and Brian Little; narration and character voices were provided by

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Overview

The series was based upon the daily goings-on of a group of common

invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...

creatures that lived at the bottom of a garden around an old sundial.

Characters

* Mr Harrison the

snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class G ...

* Suppose the

worm Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wo ...

* Ariadne the

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

* Anorak the

pillbug Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unre ...

(

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) * Ladybird the ladybird * Lambeth the

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

* Ancient the caterpillar

VHS releases

The Video Collection and Thames Video released 2 VHS tapes containing 5 episodes each.

References

External links

* 1987 British television series debuts 1989 British television series endings 1980s British children's television series Animated television series about insects British children's animated television shows ITV children's television shows British stop-motion animated television series Television series by FremantleMedia Kids & Family Television shows produced by Thames Television English-language television shows 1980s British animated television series Television series by Cosgrove Hall Films {{UK-tv-prog-stub