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    Dennis is a regular menace about Beanotown. He and his pet pal Gnasher,
    the scruffy terrier, and mates Curly and Pieface are forever upsetting his family,
    neighbours, townsfolk and school friends. Chief amongst them are his Mum and
    Dad, the Major, his Headmaster and - of course - wet-eared Walter, the official
    school softy and his equally wet-eared friends...

    This is a boisterous series, with lots of antics and japes with catapaults, fireworks
    pirates, soldiers, sailors and custard pies. Dennis dishes the dirt on his enemies,
    authority and softies everywhere, but invariably, Dad and the grown-ups will soon
    follow the trail of disaster back to that darned boy!

        

    And so, Beano comic star Dennis the Menace gets his very own animated series.
    Dennis first appeared in the "Beano" comic in 1951, and he's still a star there
    today. This isn't the first time he's been animated, though. Previously, Terry Ward's
    Flicks Films helped to bring Dennis and many other "Beano" and "Dandy" favourites
    in to animated life in a series of small-scale video releases. This new series comes
    to us via director Tony Collingwood and Chris O'Hare and, just as different "Beano"
    artists have brought their own slant to the strips, so they've given the characters
    their own little character tweaks to establish their tv persona. And it's nice to see
    that even Dennis' piggy pal Rasher gets to appear!

    Of course the British Dennis should never be confused with the all-American,
    blonde-haired Dennis who is something of a icon over the pond. The American
    Dennis is a menace with a heart of gold, but our Dennis is a proper little terror,
    with ne'er a redeeming quality to unearth.

    Dennis may be the biggest and baddest of DC Thomson's star strips, but
    Bananaman made the transition from strip to screen first...