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''Danger Mouse'' is a British
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produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for
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. It features the
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ous Danger Mouse who worked as a secret agent and is a
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of British
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, particularly the '' Danger Man'' series and
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. It originally ran from 28 September 1981 to 19 March 1992 on the
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network. The series spawned a spin-off show, '' Count Duckula'', which aired between 1988 and 1993, and an updated series, under the same name, began airing in September 2015 on
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.


Characters


Main

* Danger Mouse (voiced by David Jason) is often called the world's greatest secret agent—so secret, in fact, that his codename has a codename. His catchphrases include "Good grief" when he becomes upset or shocked, "Penfold, shush" when his assistant makes a foolish remark. He was originally going to be brown; however, the creators thought that he and Penfold needed to be different colours. : Brian Cosgrove described Jason's portrayal as "His voice had the perfect mix of forcefulness, humour and gentleness. He was totally committed to doing voiceovers for silly cartoons, which warmed my heart, and we became great friends." Jason said "I wanted to make him sound believable. We decided he would be softly spoken, very British, very heroic, but also a bit of a coward. He’d save the world, but he’d also run for it!" * Ernest Penfold (voiced by
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) is a timid, bespectacled hamster, and Danger Mouse's reluctant assistant and sidekick. He is often mistaken for a mole; however, Brian Cosgrove has stated Penfold is supposed to be a hamster. Penfold stands just over half the height of Danger Mouse, and always wears thick round glasses and a crumpled blue suit with a white shirt and a yellow and black striped tie. In the first episode, he is codenamed the Jigsaw "because when he is faced with a problem, he goes to pieces." : Brian Cosgrove came up with Penfold's character design when he was waiting for a meeting with Thames Television, and had drawn up "this little fellow with heavy glasses and a baggy suit" and then realized he had drawn his brother Denis, who worked for the ''
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'' and "who was bald with heavy black glasses". * Colonel K (voiced by
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): Danger Mouse's boss; often mistaken for a walrus, it was revealed in an issue of ''
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. During the last two seasons, he became more absent-minded, tending to frustrate both DM and Penfold with his tendency to ramble nonsense. A running gag in the later seasons is that he botches the usage of the phrase "over and out" multiple times. *
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Silas Greenback (voiced by
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): The recurring
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and Danger Mouse's
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; a
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with a wheezy voice, although, sometimes, he was referred to as a
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. Known as Baron Greenteeth in the unbroadcast pilot episode. Commonly known as the "Terrible Toad". In America, " greenback" is slang for dollar bill in many regions, adding to the sense of his commercial greed. Allegedly, he turned to a life of crime as a schoolboy when other children stole his bicycle and let all the air out of its tyres. * Stiletto (voiced by Brian Trueman): Greenback's henchman; a crow. He always called Greenback "Barone", Italian for "Baron". In the original British version, he speaks with an Italian accent; this was changed to a Cockney accent for the U.S. distribution to avoid offending Italian-Americans. His last name is Mafiosa. In series 5, he is more incompetent and klutzy that Greenback usually has to whack him with his walking stick, and in series 9, Greenback uses a "hit box" that whacks Stiletto on the head with a mallet. * Nero (sounds provided by David Jason): Greenback's pet. A fluffy white
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(equivalent to the stereotypical white cat frequently associated with arch villains, particularly Ernst Stavro Blofeld). He is a non-speaking character, although his noises and laugh are supplied by David Jason's voice sped up. Readily understood by Greenback and, less frequently, by Stiletto. He does not have any superpowers, except In the season 5 episode "Nero Power", where he temporarily exhibits the ability of telekinesis. In the special features of ''Danger Mouse'' cartoons, audiences were informed that Nero is actually the mastermind of Greenback's schemes. * The Narrator (voiced by David Jason): The unseen narrator, who occasionally interacts with the characters, sometimes to the point of halting the plot for one reason or another. In a series 6 episode, he accidentally sends Danger Mouse and Penfold back in time with his broken mike. He often voices his disdain for the show and his job towards the end of the episode and through part of the closing credits. His name is Isambard Sinclair.


Supporting

* Professor Heinrich Von Squawkencluck is an inventor
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, first appearing in the series where he was engaged in
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experiments to grow
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to enormous sizes. He invented the Mark III, Danger Mouse's
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, and the Space Hopper, his personal
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. He speaks in a broken
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accent. Penfold is naturally leery of the professor, as he often winds up on the wrong side of his experiments. * Flying Officer Buggles Pigeon: Another of Colonel K's agents who came to the aid of Danger Mouse and Penfold in the episode, "Chicken Run," and appeared in several episodes afterward. * Agent 57: A master of disguise, appearing initially as an earthworm. Agent 57 has disguised himself so often that he forgot his original appearance. In the series 6 episode, "The Spy Who Stayed In with a Cold", he gained the ability to change shape to resemble any character or animal whenever he sneezed, but when he shows Danger Mouse his original form, Danger Mouse is horrified. * Leatherhead : Greenback's other crow henchman. Even less intelligent than Stiletto, he appeared in several of the early episodes, where he spent most of his time reading comic books. * Count Duckula (voiced by David Jason): A fame-obsessed
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who wants to appear in television. However, his utter lack of anything approaching talent makes his attempts to "entertain" rather terrifying (he has been known to use his "act" as a torture device). This resulted in a
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series, titled '' Count Duckula'', starring the Count himself. The two versions of the character differ, however; the character featured in ''Danger Mouse'' is not a
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, makes far greater use of his vampiric magic, and has an accent consisting of a lisp and a stutter, as well as occasional stuttering and duck-like squawks and quacks. * J. J. Quark: a space alien who recurs in series 6. He claims possession of Earth based on a cosmic charter granted to his great-great-great-great grandfather. He has a robot assistant named Grovell, who always grovels whenever his name is mentioned. * Doctor Augustus P. Crumhorn III (voiced by
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): A
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, he recurred as Danger Mouse's adversary starting in series 9. In the episode, "Penfold Transformed", he lists his full name as "Aloisius Julian Philibert Elphinstone Eugene
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Crumhorn", omitting both Augustus and the III. He and Greenback were at odds; once Crumhorn kidnapped Penfold and Penfold managed to escape simply because the two villains were too busy quarreling to notice his absence.


Production


Development

The show was created by Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove for their production company, Cosgrove Hall Films. Danger Mouse was based on Patrick McGoohan's lead role in '' Danger Man''. The show was intended to have a more serious tone as seen in the pilot episode but
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(who wrote the music for the show) gave Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall the idea to make the series silly. "The characters had got stuck in reality and were doing James Bond type things rooted in the solid real world," said Harding, "I argued that once you invented a Mouse Secret Agent then all of creation and a good chunk of not creation was his oyster. In other words we could be as barmy (crazy) as we wanted." In an interview with ''
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'', Cosgrove said "We reckoned a secret service mouse foiling the plans of an evil toad – Baron Silas Greenback – was suitably ridiculous." Cosgrove and Hall brought in Brian Trueman, who was working as an announcer on '' Granada TV'', as the main writer. For the voice of Danger Mouse, they picked David Jason after they saw him in the show '' Only Fools and Horses''. For the voice of Penfold, they picked
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, who was known for the show '' Terry and June'' On 4 June 1984, the show was (along with ''
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'') the first animated show to appear on
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in the United States and quickly became the second most popular show on the channel after ''You Can’t Do That on Television'', as it appealed to both tweens and adults with its quick-witted English humour. It was often compared to American audiences as a British equivalent of '' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'', due to its gentle satire of politics and outrageous plots. It returned to terrestrial television after the
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purchased episodes of it to broadcast in its daytime schedules with its first broadcast on 12 February 2007."Dangermouse (1981-1992)"
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The show was expensive to make, sometimes needing 2,000 drawings thus footage was reused while certain scenes were set in the North Pole or "in the dark" (i.e. black with eyeballs visible only, or, in Danger Mouse's case, simply one eyeball) as a cost-cutting measure. This time-and-money saving device was cheerfully admitted by both Brian Cosgrove, who conceived the character and the show, and Brian Trueman, who wrote almost all the scripts from the beginning.


Reception

It has been widely claimed that in the show's viewing figures hit an all-time high of 21 million viewers in 1983. This figure is disputed, as the most viewed programme of the year, ''
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'', only achieved 18.45 million viewers. The figure of 21 million appears to be the aggregate of viewing figures for five ''Danger Mouse'' episodes broadcast between 3-7 January 1983 (20.875 million in total, an average of 4.175 million per episode). For the week ending 9 January 1983, the rating figures of ''Danger Mouse'' did not place it within the top 10 ITV programmes. In the UK,
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's '' 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows'', the show came third, beaten only by ''
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'' and ''
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''. It was named the 62nd best animated series by
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, calling it one of the first British cartoons to become popular with American audiences.


Awards and nominations

''Danger Mouse'' was nominated for 11 BAFTA awards during its original run, but did not win any.


BAFTA Films

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. , - , 1984 ( 37th) , ''Danger Mouse'' series 4 , Best Short Animation , , - , 1985 ( 38th) , ''Danger Mouse'' series 5 , Best Short Animation , , - , 1986 ( 39th) , ''Danger Mouse'' series 6 , Best Short Animation , , - , 1987 ( 40th) , ''Danger Mouse'' series 7 , Best Short Animation Film , , -


BAFTA TV

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. , - , 1983 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 2 or 3 , Children's Programme - Entertainment / Drama , , - , 1984 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 4 , Children's Programme - Entertainment / Drama , , - , 1984 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 4 , Short Animation , , - , 1985 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 5 , Short Animation , , - , 1986 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 6 , Children's Programme - Entertainment / Drama , , - , 1986 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 6 , Short Animation , , - , 1987 , ''Danger Mouse'' series 7 , Short Animation , , -


Other awards

In 2012, Brian Cosgrove received a Special Award from the
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.


In other media


Comics

A long-running
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adaptation, written by
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and illustrated by Arthur Ranson, ran in ''
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in the UK
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'' 2000 AD''.


Video games

A series of
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s based on the character also appeared. The first were ''Danger Mouse in Double Trouble'' and ''Danger Mouse in the Black Forest Chateau'' (both in 1984) followed by ''Danger Mouse in Making Whoopee!'' in 1985. Two mobile games were published by ZED Worldwide; ''Danger Mouse: Quiz'' in 2010 and ''Danger Mouse'' in 2011.


Audiobooks

Some stories were also available as read-along cassettes with accompanying books. They were re-read by the cast for audio.


Merchandise

During its run, the show spawned a wide range of merchandise, including storybooks, hardback annuals, jigsaw puzzles, a Panini sticker album, View-Master reels, and of course, VHS releases. In the years since, products have continued to sell, often aimed at the now-adult audience which grew up with it, such as T-shirts, mugs, key rings, fridge magnets and posters. To coincide with the 25th anniversary, Cosgrove Hall also licensed rights to a number of companies to produce a range of new anniversary merchandise including Blues Clothing (women's and girls' underwear and sleepwear) and Concept 2 Creation (collectible figurines). FremantleMedia launched a webshop run by Metrostar e-commerce where a wide variety of goods were for sale, including the CD Audio adaptation of two of the show's episodes using the original artists voices, released by Steve Deakin-Davies: The Ambition Company.


Other appearances

* American musician & producer
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chose his stage name as a reference the show, initially performing in a mouse costume. * In the 1989 film ''
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'', which was also produced by
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, a ''Danger Mouse'' poster is shown above a boy's bed. * ''
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'' (1991): Appeared as themselves in the episode titled "French Exchange" S2E7. * ''South Park'' (2008): In the video, Danger Mouse is in Imaginationland.


Episodes


Home media


Broadcast history

The series was transmitted on
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via the CITV brand from 1981 to 1992. The show has the initials 'DM' prominently emblazoned on his chest. This causes problems for those translating it into other languages, where a literal translation of the words 'Danger' and 'Mouse' do not have those initials; the
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version, for example, calls the show (and the lead) ''Donnie Murdo'' (two given names unconnected either with mice or danger). which was broadcast on STV – from 1990 to 1994 and again on
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in 2015.  The series has also been broadcast on numerous channels on Boomerang (2000–06) and
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(2007–09) He was Dzielna Mysz (brave mouse) in
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, Dundermusen (Thundermouse) in
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, and ''Dare Dare Motus'' in
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, "Dare Dare" being French slang for "as fast as possible". The Slovene translation omitted the DM initials entirely, however, dubbing Danger Mouse ' ('Brave Mouse'). In
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, the show was first broadcast on ABC TV in 1982 it then moved to
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in 1996. It was also the first British cartoon to break into
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, being shown on the weekdays.


Revival

It was reported in 2013 that the series was under consideration for a revival, and in June 2014 it was announced that a new series was being made for broadcast on
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in 2015. The new series is produced by Boulder Media for FremantleMedia Kids. It is directed by Robert Cullen with Brian Cosgrove, one of the original creators, acting as creative consultant. Alexander Armstrong and actor
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voice Danger Mouse and Penfold, respectively; Dave Lamb takes the role of the narrator, whilst Stephen Fry plays Colonel K and
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takes over as Baron Greenback. Armstrong's '' Pointless'' co-host Richard Osman appears in the series as Professor Strontium Jellyfishowitz.
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voices the character Dr Augustus P Crumhorn III and Lena Headey voices the character Jeopardy Mouse, a character newly introduced into this series. This series aired on
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in the US. Kevin Eldon describes the animation style as 'much the same as the original'. The first episode aired on 28 September 2015.
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is the master toy partner,
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Spin-off

* Count Duckula (1988–1993)


Notes

* "Sx Ep. y" is shortened form for series x and episode y in the original ''Danger Mouse'' TV series


References


External links

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Danger Mouse appears on cover of Computer and Video Games magazine - September 1984.
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