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The
Dreamstone (1990-1995)
producers: Martin Gates & FilmFair
for Central TV
animation: cel animation
episodes: 52 x 22min
SERIES ONE SERIES
THREE
1990 / 13 x 22mins 1994
/ 13 x 22mins
SERIES TWO SERIES
FOUR
1992 / 13 x 22mins 1995
/ 13 x 22mins
"Once
more we travel to the Land of Nightmares to
discover there, beneath the Black Mountain
Of Illfeed,
the loathsome Zordrak,Lord of Nightmares,
hatching
his monstrous plots to thwart the Dreammaker
so
that nightmares might rule!..."
In this lush and imaginative series a kindly
old Dreammaker and his colourful
friends and associates must thwart the unwelcome
attentions of the lizard-lord
Zordrak, Lord of Nightmares and his cronies
who are keen to get their hands
upon the magical Dreamstone. This stone is
used to bring pleasant dreams
to all around the world. But if Zordrak succeeds
in his quest, these dreams will
be lost and the world will be over-run by nightmares...
The world of the Dreamstone is populated by the
'cute' heroic Noops,
forest-dwellers called Wuts and the war-like
Urpneys, right-hand servants
to Lord Zordrak. Rufus and Amberley are Noops
and it is they who are at
the centre of each adventure, together with
a Wut called Pildit, a flying
fish called Albert and, of course, the aged
Dreammaker himself. Serving
Zordrak is the maniacal Urpney called Urpgor
and three bumbling stooges,
Sergeant Blob, Frizz and Nug...
"The Dreamstone" was conceived by
Mike Jupp and brought to life by an
animation team lead by Martin Gates. Composer Mike
Batt furnished the
shows with a rich orchestral score and even put
together an accompanying
concept album of songs inspired by the stories,
sung by a melting pot of
celebrities and stars as diverse as Ozzi Osbourne and
Frank Bruno!
Four Dreamstone series were produced. The show
was one of the first
British series to tackle the haf-hour
adventure genre - a genre previously
dominated by American toons like "He-Man",
and "Dungeons & Dragons".
It remains an intriguing series, filled with imagination,
and indeed even guilty
of being over-filled at times. But that's
no bad thing is it? The imagination on
show obviously struck a chord with the public
because the series still has
a hardcore of online fans even now, a decade-or-more
later.
FilmFair tackled the adventure genre again a couple
of years later with
Legends
of Treasure Island, another equally-lush and imaginative
production...
Dreamstone
episodes
The series originally opened with an
extended pilot film, but
in later broadcasts this was split into
two separate episodes...
Series One Series
Two
The Dreamstone (part 1) The
Nightmare Stone
Into Viltheed (part 2) Zarag
The Knitted Balloon Urpgor's
Island
The Invisible Blob The
Robo Bird
The Voice of Zordrak
On the Darkside
Albert Is Fishnapped Albert's
Ailement
The Shrinking Stone The
Monster
Blob's Incredible Plan Spildit
Too Hot to Handle Wildit's
Whistle
The Daydream Bubble Sport's
Day
The Statue Collection Frozen
Assets
Argorrible Attack
Bottle Harvest
Megattack Return
of the Nightmare Stone
Series Three Series
Four
The Return Auntie
Again
Electric Eggs Stowaways
The Moon of Doom The
Substitute
Zarag Rules Trouble
With The Miners
The Dream Beam Invasion The
Basilic
Urpgor's Auntie
Dreambubble Mixture
The Wottles
Little Urpip
The Mirror Horrible
Aggorible
The Mechanical Fish Hod
A Day Out The
Jolly Bird
Urpgor's Great Adventure Planet
Prunus
The Neemod The
Spider-mobile
Mr Blossom's Present Urpjaws
The
Dreamstone on DVD
The
Dreamstone - Vol.1
Region
2 / Tempo TV Classics / March 2006
The
Dreamstone - Vol.2
Region
2 / Tempo TV Classics / March 2007
a
Martin Gates Production for FilmFair Animation
a FilmFair Production for Central Independent
Television
original concept, art director, character
creation
key backgrounds and design by Mike Jupp
producer: Martin
Gates
exec prod: Bengt
Odner, David Yates
assoc prod: James
Costello
story & script: James
Costello, Martin Gates
dialogue: Sue
Radley
dir of anim: Phil
Robinson
layout dir: John
Stevenson
music: Mike
Batt
performed
by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
"Better
Than a Dream" sung by Mike Batt
colour models: Carol
A Hughes
paint sup: Stella
Reyes
storyboard: Gordon
Harrison, John Stevenson,
Harold Whitaker, Vince James, Wayne Thomas,
Marty Martin, Milt Schaeffer
key anim:
Dino Athanassiou, Chris Fenna, Laurent Grisel,
Willard
Kitchen, Les Orton, Richard Villeneuve,
Gary
Hearst, Alain Mandron, Lloyd Sutton
voice dir: Martin
Gates
voices: Stuart
Lock (Rufus)
Nancy
Hendry (Amberley)
Gary
Martin (Zordrak)
Derek
Wright (Pildit)
John
Franklyn-Robbins (Dreammaker)
Richard
Tate (Sergeant Blob)
Melvyn
Hayes (Frizz)
Anthony
Jackson (Nug)
Leonard
Whiting (Urpgor)
Jackie Clarke (Wildit)
Peter
Graze (Narrator)
On
the web
Nyanko's
Dreamstone Site
Nyanko's fan site has an introduction,
character pages, story page,
and more, including details of the
making of the series with
contributions from Mike Jupp and
John Stevenson!
Mike
Jupp
And speaking of Mr Jupp, this
is his official site with info on all of
his animated and artistic creations,
from the past right up to the
present. You can buy things here
too - Very tempting...
The
Ultimate Dreamstone Guide
Does
what it says on the tin, and brings us the beginnings
of another guide to this popular
series...
Abbey
Home Media
Abbey have UK DVD rights to series
one and two...
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