''The Blunders'' is an
animated
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children's television series
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co-produced by
FilmFair
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and
Central Independent Television
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, and broadcast on
ITV
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ITV
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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
Clumsy or clumsiness may refer to:
Behaviour
*Accident-proneness
*Developmental coordination disorder, a motor skills disorder which brings about chronic clumsiness
Music
* ''Clumsy'' (Our Lady Peace album), a 1997 album by Our Lady Peace
** "Cl ...
. In the episode "The Blunder Family Tree", the Blunders find that their ancestors lived in the
Roman Empire
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.
Episodes
Home releases
Castle Vision distributed episodes of the series on
VHS videotape
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. Each tape features 10 episodes.
See also
*
The Stupids
The Stupids are a fictional family which appear in a series of children's books written by Harry Allard and James Marshall. The Stupids draw their humor from the fact that they are incompetent to the point of confusing the most simple concep ...
Notes
References
*
''The Blunders''at the
BFI Film & TV Database
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. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
*. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
*. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
External links
*
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1986 British television series debuts
1987 British television series endings
1980s British children's television series
1980s British animated television series
Animated television series about families
British children's animated television shows
ITV children's television shows
English-language television shows
Television series by FilmFair
Television series by DHX Media
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television