Round the Bend

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 3
Total Episodes 18
Original Language EN

Round the Bend (1988)

⭐ 3.6 / 5 (4 votes) 🎬 3 Seasons 📼 18 Episodes 🏷️ Animation, Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Round the Bend was a satirical British children's television series, which ran on Children's ITV for three series from 1989 to 1991. The show was a Hat Trick production for Yorkshire Television. The show was later repeated on Channel 4, The Children's Channel and Nickelodeon UK and was nominated for an RTS Award. It was created by the team behind the comic Oink! - Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers. The puppets, animation characters and main set were designed by Gallagher, who was also the show's graphic designer. The puppets were made by the team who made the puppets for Spitting Image. Round the Bend was a satirical parody of Saturday morning magazine shows — with a host providing linking material between cartoons, music videos and news sections - albeit set in a sewer. The anarchic tone of the show and its parody cartoons was similar to that of Viz. The animated segments were done by Aardman Animations and Catalyst Pictures. The title of the show is a reference to a toilet U-bend, with the opening titles beginning with the camera being flushed down a toilet and ending up in a sewer.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

E2 Episode 2

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

E3 Episode 3

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

E4 Episode 4

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

E5 Episode 5

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

E6 Episode 6

Comic Book presented parodies of other popular childrens programmes. Vegetables (Neighbours) Wee-man and the Masters of the Looniverse Palace Hill (Grange Hill) Nursery Crimes (Jackanory) Teenage Mutant Ninja Toilets Teenage Mutant Ninja Teddies Old Age Uselss Nitwit Tortoises Attack of the Atomic Banana Thunderpants (Thundercats) Transformaloids (Trandformers) Woolly the Wonder Sheep (Champion the Wonder Horse) Botman (Batman) Pzycho the Magnificent The Oddbod Family Tommy's Magic Time Trousers Cosmic Comprehensive

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