DoDo, The Kid from Outer Space was an animated cartoon series that was syndicated to television from 1965-1970. DoDo was a young extraterrestrial from the planet Hena Hydro, who came to Earth in his flying saucer and had numerous adventures. Other cast members included Professor Fingers, an eccentric scientist who somewhat resembled the later Professor Utonium; Compy, DoDo's computer/duck hybrid pet; and Why and How, two Earth children. The characters speak in rhymes, either independently or playing off each other.
"DoDo" was created by Lady Stearn Robinson and produced by British animators Halas and Batchelor. A total of 78 five-minute episodes were filmed.
The Beeps is an animated pre-school children's television series of 65 x 11 minute episodes, produced using computer-generated imagery by Impossible Television for the United Kingdom television network, Channel Five Broadcasting Ltd. Broadcast in the UK by Five on their early morning pre-school children's segment Milkshake! and also worldwide. The series details the cheerful daily lives and adventures of the Beeps of Beep Island. The Beeps and their world are created by illustrator Malou Bonicos.
The show features several notable actors: Timmy Mallett, Dani Harmer, Daniel Peacock, and Tom Baker as the narrator. The show's theme tune and original score is composed by *Gareth Cousins. *Peter Gosling provided the Beep Tree Song featured in every episode. Scriptwriters include: Adam Peters, Sally Marchant, Arabella Warner, John and Rosemary Barratt, Hannah Williams and Helena Smee.
Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table was an Australian animated series based on the legend of King Arthur of Camelot.
The series was produced from 1966 to 1968 and written by Melbourne playwright Alex Buzo and British-born entertainer Rod Hull, with Lyle Martin, M. Robinson, and John Palmer. The characters included King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, the Jester, the Black Knight, and Morgan le Fay. The actors who voiced the character parts in the series included: John Meillon, Lola Brooks, John Ewart, Kevin Golsby, and Matthew O'Sullivan.
Yoho Ahoy was a BBC British preschool television series about a group of several distinct pirates, aboard the ship The Rubber Duck. The title Yoho Ahoy derives from the fact the only words the characters say are "Yoho" and "Ahoy." The characters themselves are animated puppets. In 2001 it won the Banff Television Festival Rockie Award: Best Animation for "Yoho Ahoy: Buzz with Jones"
Teeny Little Super Guy was an animated short featured on PBS's Sesame Street. The shorts featured a small animated man, the Teeny Little Super Guy, who resides in a live-action, regular-sized kitchen. Robert W. Morrow described the shorts as including "parables of childhood conflict and striving."
The Jellabies is a television animation series that aired on the Australian television network ABC Kids. It was also shown in Germany, USA, The Netherlands, UK and many other territories. Its target audience is children in the age of 2–6 years old. The program is created using computer-generated imagery animation. The show is narrated by Rik Mayall. The Jellabies are jelly made people that live in the Jolly Jelly World, which is the magical land at the end of the rainbow, where their main job is to make rainbows. Although each Jellabie has its own vehicle to drive around in, their main use of travelling long distances around Jolly Jelly World is on the "Jelly train", a train that only consists of a cab and one passenger car. The show debuted in 1998 and ended in 2003.
For children the voice-over explains a lot of things from everyday life, either the objects, as well as basic culture,.
Doctor Otter is a stop-motion animated series produced by Ealing Animation and Cosgrove Hall. It was shown on CBeebies during 2001. There were 3 seasons in all.
Sylvanian Families is a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal figurines made of flocked plastic. They were created by the Japanese gaming company Epoch in 1985 and distributed worldwide by a number of companies. The figures remain a quintessential part of the 1990s boom in craze toys, spaning several animated adaptations and video games based on the figures. The word sylvan means 'of the forest'.
Scooby's Mystery Funhouse was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated package program combining reruns of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo episodes from the following shows:
⁕The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
⁕The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
⁕The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
⁕The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Scooby's Mystery Funhouse aired from September 7, 1985 to January 25, 1986 on ABC.
A total of 63 episodes were rebroadcast in 21 half-hour formats.
Soup is a children's claymation-style animated television series made in New Zealand which aired on TVNZ in 2002. It was created by Jamie Canard and ran for three series of 10 episodes each within the What Now children's TV programme. Each episode was around five minutes long and portrayed the life of fictional creatures living in a swamp. The style of the series was inspired by The Trap Door, with a variety of creatures ranging from hideous rampaging monsters to small scuttling things, typically with big eyes on top of their heads.
The Herbs is a television series for young children made for the BBC by Graham Clutterbuck's FilmFair company. It was written by Michael Bond, directed by Ivor Wood using 3D stop motion model animation and first transmitted from 12 February 1968 in the BBC1 Watch with Mother timeslot. There were 13 episodes in the series, each one 15 minutes long.
A spin-off series entitled The Adventures of Parsley was transmitted from 6 April 1970 in the 5-minute period between the end of children's TV and the BBC Evening News. This had 32 episodes, some of which were released on VHS as Parsley the Lion and Friends.
The Herbs consisted of a fantasy mix of human and animal characters inhabiting the magical walled garden of a country estate. At the beginning of each episode, the narrator spoke the magic word, "Herbidacious", which caused the garden gate to open.
As with The Magic Roundabout, the sophisticated writing style and narrative delivery of The Herbs meant that the appeal was somewhat broader than was originally intended
Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United Kingdom, the program was fully animated, and the characters were voiced by British voice actors Geoffrey Palmer, Gordon Peters, and Jill Shilling. The show was narrated by Geoffrey Palmer. In the United States, the voices were dubbed into North American English by Canadian voice actors and the program had live-action segments between animated segments.
Robo Story is a French cartoon series that was created by Michel Pillyser and Bernard Kessler for the French production company Belokapi and first televised in 1985. It ran for 52 episodes that were each 13 minutes long,.
The series was subsequently broadcast internationally, including an English dubbed version that was shown on Australian and British TV.
Gordon the Garden Gnome is a British animated children's television series aimed at getting children interested in gardening. The series premiered on CBeebies in 2005. Gordon is a cartoon garden gnome, whose voice is provided by Alan Titchmarsh.
The series also aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's Tickle-U television programming block.
The Autocrats was a Finnish political satire TV series, which takes the viewer behind the scenes of the politics of Finland. The series is produced by Filmiteollisuus and is made using 3D computer animation. The original idea for the series came from producer Olli Haikka. As of 5 January 2008, 233 episodes – comprising approximately 30 hours of footage – have been aired.
The Blobs is an animated television series based on the books by DC Thomson, published in 1980. It tells the story of a community of colorful paint-splash characters who live in Paintbox Land. The 26-episode series, narrated originally by Jane Horrocks, was produced in 1997 by Siriol Animation in Wales, in association with DC Thomson & Co., Sianel Pedwar Cymru and Scottish Television. The series was purchased by TV Ontario in 1999, and was re-voiced by Julie Zwillich for the North American market.
A Welsh-language version was also produced for S4C, entitled Y Blobs.
The Tarzan / Lone Ranger Adventure Hour is an animated television series produced by Filmation that aired on CBS during the early 1980s.
The series consisted of reruns of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle paired with new episodes of Filmation's versions of The Lone Ranger and, in the second season, The New Adventures of Zorro — at which point the series was retitled The Tarzan / Lone Ranger / Zorro Adventure Hour. The series ran from 1980 to 1982.
Don Diamond who voiced Sergeant Gonzales in this animated series previously portrayed Corporal Reyes in Disney's 1950s live-action series of Zorro.