Bananaman (TV series)

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Bananaman
Title card
Genre
Created bySteve Bright
Starring
Theme music composerDave Cooke
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes40[1]
Production
ProducerTrevor Bond
Running time5 minutes
Original release
Network
Release3 October 1983 (1983-10-03) –
4 March 1986 (1986-15-04) (reruns 1986–1999)

Bananaman is a British animated comedy series which ran from 1983 to 1986. It was based on the comic strip character Bananaman and each of the show's roughly five-minute episodes featured the voices of The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie).[2][3]

Parts of the character were changed for the series: he was now called Eric Twinge (rather than Eric Wimp), had a distinctive banana-shaped hairstyle rather than punk stubble, and had a love interest (only when transformed) in the form of Fiona, a newsreader.[4][5]

"This is 29 Acacia Road. And this is Eric, the schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is Bananaman, ever alert for the call to action!"

- opening narration

When

America
Bananaman was shown after it to round out the show to a half hour.

Cast

Written by Bernie Kay. Produced by Trevor Bond. Directed by Terry Ward.

Series guide

  • Series 1: 3 October[6] – 11 November 1983[7] - 12 episodes
  • Series 2: 4 October[8] – 19 December 1984[9] - 13 episodes
  • Series 3: 7 January – 15 April 1986[10] - 15 episodes

"Memory Lane" episode from series 2 was not broadcast until June 1988 but was made alongside series 2.

Reception

Bananaman was a popular cartoon and is one of the most well-known British superheroes. Taken from the DC Thomson comic entitled Nutty, it was made into a TV animated series of 40 five-minute episodes by Terry Ward of Flicks Films Ltd.[11]

References

  1. ^ Rosser, Michael; Wiseman2014-03-18T19:13:00+00:00, reas. "'Live action' Bananaman planned". Screen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Rosser, Michael. "'Live action' Bananaman planned | News | Screen". Screendaily.com. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4766-6599-3
    .
  4. ^ Rowney, Jo-Anne (27 October 2017). "Bananaman is back - the Man-of-Peel returns in live action debut". mirror. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  5. ^ Kamen, Matt (13 January 2016). "Bananaman: The Musical heading to theatres. Yes, really". Wired UK. Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via www.wired.co.uk.
  6. ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cc3e3d0c1aec4aa88aaa5bcbcf528d15
  7. ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/733e42ba077f43de8f92f003f73ecdf2
  8. ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/485bf706823949e7a9039809f67921a5
  9. ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/faf96e12048c454c9432d8fe117c300d
  10. ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1986-04-15#at-16.30
  11. ISBN 978-1-4968-0740-3
    . Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via Google Books.

External links
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