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			Bananaman (1983-1986) producers: 101 Productions animation: cel animation episodes: 40 x 5min
	"This is 29 Accacia Road, and this is Eric the schoolboy who leads an amazing double life..." - Bananaman Intro DC Thomson's banana-munching schoolboy-turned-hero comes to the small screen in a fondly remembered series. Comedians Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke Taylor, known collectively as "The Goodies" of course, furnished the show with some splendidly silly voices, just right for this animated comic strip. Bananaman's not-so-super-villains included Appleman, General Blight, Dr Gloom, The Nerks, The Heavy Mob, Weatherman, and who can forget that knitting needle wielding wonder Auntie?
				Interesting to see the changes that occurred during the translation from the "Nutty" comic strip to screen. Bananaman now has yellow gloves instead of his red originals, and schoolboy Eric Wimp now has hair and a name-change to Eric Twinge, but the essence of the strip remains unchanged... Interesting too, to see how the series proceeded to influence the strip. DC Thomson published several Bananaman Annuals whilst the show was on air and these featured art based on the new-look tv appearances, rather than the Nutty originals...
	Bananaman was a hit not only in the UK, but also in America where it was aired as an interstitial toon on Nickelodeon. Indeed, as the links below testify it is still fondly recalled by the 80s generation... Surprising to find that Bananaman was actually the first DC Thomson star to make it to our screens. Animated "Beano" strips and the Dennis & Gnasher series followed in the 1990's and there was also Thomson's non-comic creation The Blobs. Talk surfaced a while back about an adaptation of The Numskulls (see: The Hound), but nothing has yet surfaced... The Bananaman series was produced by Terry Ward and his old production partner Trevor Bond. Terry is a prolific animation producer with credits ranging from the original The Mr Men series to the recent CGI production of "Busy Buses". He was also the producer of those animated "Beano" strips mentioned above and due to be indexed at Toonhound in time... Bananaman episodes Series 1 Series 2 Bananaman Meets Dr Gloom Mysteries at the Old Mine The Big Breakout Lost Tribe of the Tapiocas Ice Station Zero Trouble at the Mill Alien Planet The Web of Evil The Kidnap Caper The Mummy's Curse The House on Hangman's Hill The Night Patrol Destination Danger Fog of Fear Wall of Death A Tank Full of Trouble Jaws of Steel Double Trouble Banana Kid The Last Banana Auntie's Back In Town Intergalactic Olympics Tunnel of Terror Memory Lane The Final Orbit Series 3 Disaster at Devil's Cove Night of the Nerks The Snowman Cometh Pirate TV Station Battle of the Bridge Harbour of Lost Ships Visibility Zero Battle of the Century The Perils of Ping-Pong The Great Air Race Cavern of the Lost Clown Capers Banana Junction The Crown Jewel Caper Operation Total Bananaman on DVD Bananaman: The Ultimate Collection all 3 series / R2 / Delta Music / October 2004 Bananaman: Series 1 12 episodes / R2 / Delta Music / October 2004 Bananaman: Series 2 13 episodes / R2 / Delta Music / October 2004 Bananaman: Series 3 15 episodes / R2 / Delta Music / October 2004 director: Terry Ward producer: Trevor Bond writer: Bernie Kay voices: Graeme Garden (Bananaman/General Blight/Maurice) Bill Oddie (Eric/Crow/O'Reilly/Weatherman/Henry Nerk/ Dr Gloom) Tim Brooke-Taylor (Narrator/Appleman/Auntie/King Zorg) Jill Shilling (Fiona/Samantha/Mother Nerk) On the web 80sNostalgia http://www.80snostalgia.com/classictv/bananaman/index.html Goodie-yum-yum! - The super yellow fellow has a mighty fine site online, courtesy of Mark Read and his '80sNostalgia'. Features plenty of pics, a character page and a page with sounds.... Classic Nick http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/classicnick/... More memories from those Nickelodeon days... EpGuides http://epguides.com/Bananaman/ And now here's an episode guide, courtesy of George Fergus... Flicks Films http://www.flicksfilms.com/ Flicks is Terry Ward's production company and you'll find lots of info here on the many and varied animated productions he's been involved with over the last 28 years... previous » next »
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