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''Fingerbobs'' is a British children's television programme made by Q3 for the
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. The first episode was broadcast on 14 February 1972 on
BBC1
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
as part of ''
Watch with Mother
''Watch with Mother'' was a cycle of children's programmes created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird. Broadcast by BBC Television from 1952 until 1975, it was the first BBC television series aimed specifically at pre-school children, a developme ...
''.
The show was created by
Joanne and
Michael Cole, who also created
Bod. Only thirteen episodes were ever made and were regularly repeated until December 1984.
Presented by
mime artist
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium ...
"Yoffy" (played by Canadian actor
Rick Jones), each ten-minute episode told a story centred on a paper
finger puppet
A finger puppet is a type of puppet that is controlled by one or more fingers that occupy the interior of the puppet. Finger puppets are generally very simple, consisting of a sheath that the person wearing the puppet (the puppeteer) inserts eith ...
animal and usually involved collecting various items (such as pebbles or feathers) to make up another object at the end. The finger puppets, each of whom had their own song, included:
*
Fingermouse
''Fingermouse'' is a British children's television programme created by Michael Cole for the BBC in 1985. It is a spin-off of the earlier series '' Fingerbobs''. The first episode was broadcast on 25 September 1985 on BBC1. The eponymous star ...
– a
mouse, consisting of a grey paper cone head with paper ears and whiskers with a grey glove for the body ("Fingermouse, Fingermouse/I am a sort of wondermouse"). Fingermouse later got his own show, with a new puppeteer, ''
Play School's'' Iain Lauchlan, called "The Music Man". The Music Man would tell stories involving Fingermouse, using musical instruments.
* Gulliver – a
seagull made from a white ping-pong ball (head) placed over a thumb and white gloves forming the body with outstretched fingers as the wings. ("I spread my wings.")
* Scampi – several
scampi were made using purple gloves with red heads on each finger
* Flash – a
tortoise
Tortoises () are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin: ''tortoise''). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like oth ...
, with a paper shell. ("Slowly, steadily, I move at my own pace/They call me Flash though I won't dash/Who wants to run a race?")
Other animal characters included Enoch the woodpecker, Scaredy the crow, Louise the squirrel, Prickly Friend the hedgehog and Gloria, a white mouse who appeared in the last edition as a girlfriend for Fingermouse. These creatures only made occasional appearances and did not have their own songs.
Fingermouse gained
his own series in 1985. In this series, the focus was more on musical instruments. One series was made of thirteen programmes.
The memorable theme tune went "Yoffy lifts a finger, and a mouse is there/Puts his hands together, and a seagull takes the air/Yoffy lifts a finger, and a scampi darts about/Yoffy bends another, and a tortoise head peeps out/These hands were made for making, and making they must do."
After filming the last episode, Jones destroyed the mouse puppet while the camera was still rolling.
Fingerbobs was referenced in the video of "
A Town Called Hypocrisy
"A Town Called Hypocrisy" is the second single taken from ''Liberation Transmission'', the third studio album by the Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets.
The single was released on 11 September 2006 in the United Kingdom. It peaked at No. 23 ...
" by
Lostprophets
Lostprophets (stylised as lostprophets) were a Welsh Rock music, rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997 by singer and lyricist Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer), Ian Watkins and guitarist Lee Gaze. The band was founded after their former band ...
.
Episodes
The following information has been taken from the Kult Kidz Gold DVD release of the series.
Gulliver's Stories
* ''Bumpy'' (14 February 1972)
* ''Stones'' (21 February 1972)
* ''Feathers'' (28 February 1972)
Scampi's Stories
* ''Sounds'' (6 March 1972)
* ''Wood'' (13 March 1972)
* ''Shiny'' (20 March 1972)
Fingermouse's Stories
* ''String'' (27 March 1972)
* ''Shadow'' (10 April 1972)
* ''Shapes'' (17 April 1972)
* ''Bricks'' (24 April 1972)
Flash's Stories
* ''Paint'' (1 May 1972)
* ''Seeds'' (8 May 1972)
* ''House'' (15 May 1972)
Note: Episode titles were given in ''Radio Times'', but were not shown on-screen.
References
External links
Fingerbobs*
1972 British television series debuts
1972 British television series endings
1970s British children's television series
BBC children's television shows
British television shows featuring puppetry
English-language television shows
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