List of DangerMouse episodes
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This is an episode guide for the children's animated television series DangerMouse, made by Cosgrove Hall and first shown on ITV during its CITV output on weekday afternoons. Ten series were made, comprising of 89 episodes which were broadcast between 1981 and 1992.
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[edit] Pilot
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | "The Mystery of the Lost Chord" | unaired |
| The 15-minute pilot was later shortened to 10 minutes and aired as the series 1 episode "Who Stole the Bagpipes?" The pilot features no narration and very different voices for DangerMouse and Penfold. Baron Greenback is known in this episode only as Baron Greenteeth. | ||
[edit] Series 1 (1981)
Series 1 episodes are 10 minutes long, and originally aired with no interruptions.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Rogue Robots" | 28 September 1981 |
| DangerMouse discovers that Baron Greenback is behind a wave of attack robots that have been going after agents that work with DM. | ||
| 2 | "Who Stole the Bagpipes?" | 30 September 1981 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold travel to Scotland to keep Greenback from destroying the world with music from all the bagpipes in the world. | ||
| 3 | "Trouble with Ghosts" | 5 October 1981 |
| Greenback captures Colonel K and has the Colonel send DangerMouse and Penfold on holiday to a haunted castle in Transylvania's Castle. | ||
| 4 | "The Chicken Run" | 7 October 1981 |
| Greenback steals a growth serum from Professor Skwakencluck and with it creates giant chickens to take over the world once and for all. And for once Penfold saves the day! | ||
| 5 | "The Martian Misfit" | 12 October 1981 |
| Greenback creates a 'Martian' to keep DangerMouse busy while he sets out on a crime spree which doesn't last very long! | ||
| 6 | "The Dream Machine" | 14 October 1981 |
| Greenback drives DangerMouse and Penfold crazy with his dream machine. | ||
| 7 | "Lord of the Bungle" | 19 October 1981 |
| A fall causes Penfold to think he is the Lord of the Jungle, when he and DangerMouse try to find out why elephants are being turned into sugar cubes. | ||
| 8 | "Die Laughing" | 21 October 1981 |
| Greenback is causing the world's leaders to laugh themselves to death in his latest plot to become ruler of the Earth. | ||
| 9 | "The World of Machines" | 26 October 1981 |
| Greenback kidnaps Penfold to lure DangerMouse into a spaceship and send both of them to a planet ruled by machines. | ||
| 10 | "Ice Station Camel" | 28 October 1981 |
| DangerMouse must stop Greenback who has stopped the Earth's rotation which in turn has canceled gravity. | ||
| 11 | "A Plague of Pyramids" | 14 December 1981 |
| DangerMouse discovers Greenback is behind a plague of pyramids which are popping up all over England and threatening to sink. | ||
[edit] Series 2 (Spring 1982)
Series 2 episodes were originally aired as five four-minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | "Custard" | 4 January 1982 |
| DangerMouse travels to outer space to find a custard-mite and bring him to Earth after Greenback floods the world with instant custard. | ||
| 13 | "Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind" | 11 January 1982 |
| Aliens capture DangerMouse and Penfold for use in an experiment when they journey to the Bermuda Triangle out in the sea on the trail of Baron Greenback. | ||
| 14 | "The Duel" | 18 January 1982 |
| Greenback tells DangerMouse that he will go straight and be good, if DangerMouse beats him in a duel and if DangerMouse promises to quit his job if he is the loser. | ||
| 15 | "The Day of the Suds" | 25 January 1982 |
| Washing machines under the control of Greenback threaten to destroy London city. | ||
| 16 | "The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God" | 1 February 1982 |
| Greenback has stolen a bad luck charm for use in a bad luck ray. DangerMouse manages to get it and attempts to give it back to the original owners who don't really want it back. | ||
| 17 | "The Four Tasks of DangerMouse" | 8 February 1982 |
| Greenback kidnaps Penfold to get DangerMouse to bring him four ingredients needed for an evil spell to take over the world. DangerMouse meets Count Duckula when one ingredient turns out to be the feather of a vampire duck. | ||
[edit] Series 3 (Autumn 1982)
The first three episodes originally aired in five four-minute segments. The fourth and fifth episodes were single, 10-minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | "The Invasion of Colonel 'K'" | 4 October 1982 |
| Greenback shrinks himself and enters Colonel K's body to learn all of the Colonel's secrets. | ||
| 19 | "DangerMouse Saves the World ... Again" | 11 October 1982 |
| DangerMouse is captured by Greenback when Greenback threatens to destroy all the world's signposts, and is subjected to a brain picker to remove all his thoughts. | ||
| 20 | "The Odd Ball Runaround" | 18 October 1982 |
| Greenback is determined to steal plans that DangerMouse and Penfold are transporting from Australia to London. | ||
| 21 | "The Strange Case of the Ghost Bus" | 25 October 1982 |
| DangerMouse is sent to the Indian Ocean to investigate several ship sinkings caused by ghost-like buses that vanish. | ||
| 22 | "Trip To America" | 1 November 1982 |
| DangerMouse travels to the United States where he teams up with a Texan to defeat Greenback, who has shrunk and stolen the world's greatest buildings. | ||
[edit] Series 4 (1983)
Series 4 episodes were originally aired as five four-minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | "The Wild, Wild Goose Chase" | 3 January 1983 |
| DangerMouse finds a computerised hideout locator which leads him to Baron Greenback's hideouts. | ||
| 24 | "The Return of Count Duckula" | 10 January 1983 |
| Agent 57, the master of disguise, helps DangerMouse defeat Count Duckula who has teamed up with Greenback to turn Parliament show-biz crazy. | ||
| 25 | "Demons Aren't Dull" | 17 January 1983 |
| A Demon from the 4th dimension dares DangerMouse to stop him from stealing famous buildings. | ||
| 26 | "150 Million Years Lost" | 11 April 1983 |
| DangerMouse must rescue Penfold after Professor Squakencluck's time machine sends Penfold back in time. | ||
| 27 | "The Planet of the Cats" | 18 April 1983 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold end up in the future where the world is ruled by cats who are taking orders from a descendent of Greenback. | ||
| 28 | "4 Heads Are Better than 2" | 25 April 1983 |
| Colonel K teams DangerMouse up with a robot Penfold and Penfold with a robot DangerMouse so one pair can help Agent 57 and the other can capture Greenback. | ||
| 29 | "Tower of Terror" | 9 May 1983 |
| DangerMouse tracks Greenback down to a New York skyscraper where strange things happen to the World's Greatest Secret Agent. | ||
| 30 | "The Great Bone Idol" | 16 May 1983 |
| Count Duckula and Greenback team up to find the Bone Idol which can control all the dogs in the world. | ||
| 31 | "Public Enemy No. 1" | 23 May 1983 |
| It is up to Penfold to stop DangerMouse when he takes up a life of crime. | ||
[edit] Series 5 (1984)
Series 5 episodes were originally aired as 10 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | "Long Lost Crown Affair" | 20 February 1984 |
| Greenback ruins a holiday for DangerMouse and Penfold who are in the Amazon jungle searching for the long lost crown that belonged to an Aztec ruler. | ||
| 33 | "By George It's a Dragon" | 27 February 1984 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold travel to Wales to battle a dragon called Jones. | ||
| 34 | "Tiptoe through the Penfolds" | 5 March 1984 |
| Greenback tests his new duplication machine on Penfold, which malfunctions and leaves him with hundreds of Penfolds to deal with. | ||
| 35 | "Project Moon" | 12 March 1984 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold journey to the moon to put a radio jamming station Greenback has built there out of operation. | ||
| 36 | "The Next Ice Age Begins at Midnight" | 19 March 1984 |
| Greenback threatens to use his weather control machine to create an ice age if he is not crowned king of the world. | ||
| 37 | "The Aliens are Coming" | 26 March 1984 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold are chosen as Ambassadors to meet aliens and end up being terrorized by their giant toys. | ||
| 38 | "Remote-Controlled Chaos" | 2 April 1984 |
| Greenback makes a device to control DM's car. | ||
| 39 | "The Man from Gadget" | 9 April 1984 |
| A salesman of gadgets for secret agents tries to sell DangerMouse devices which will help him in reaching Greenback's hard to reach hideout. | ||
| 40 | "Tampering with Time Tickles" | 16 April 1984 |
| Greenback develops age-altering bombs which turn DangerMouse into an over eager youth and puts Penfold on the verge of senility. | ||
| 41 | "Nero Power" | 30 April 1984 |
| Nero gains strange powers, which he uses to terrorize DangerMouse and Penfold, after he falls into one of Greenback's inventions. | ||
[edit] Series 6 (1984-1985)
Series 6 episodes were originally aired as 10 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 42 | "Once Upon a Time Slip" | 25 December 1984 |
| Penfold and Dangermouse get transported to the year 1215 thanks to a fluke in the narrator's microphone. They now have to act out a twisted version of Robin Hood. Starring Dangermouse As Robin Hood, Penfold as Little John and Greenback as the Sheriff of Nottingham. | ||
| 43 | "Viva DangerMouse" | 3 January 1985 |
| Greenback raids Mexico's cacti to plant the pins in the most important cushions in Britain. | ||
| 44 | "Play it Again, Wufgang" | 10 January 1985 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold go after a mad composer who has destroyed all the world's music. | ||
| 45 | "Hear, Hear" | 17 January 1985 |
| Penfold's hearing problems make him immune to a device that brainwashes anyone who hears Greenback's voice. | ||
| 46 | "Multiplication Fable" | 24 January 1985 |
| An alien pet escapes from a crash-landed spaceship and it multiplies whenever something touches it, making its capture difficult. | ||
| 47 | "The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold" | 31 January 1985 |
| Agent 57 teams up with DangerMouse to defeat Baron Greenback when Penfold stays home with a cold; the only problem is 57 gets it too and every time he sneezes he changes disguise. | ||
| 48 | "It's All White, White Wonder" | 7 February 1985 |
| An experimental enzyme escapes into the sewers and turns everything it comes in contact with white. | ||
| 49 | "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma" | 14 February 1985 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold end up in a time-traveling clock when they investigate an attempted robbery of the crown jewels. | ||
| 50 | "What a Three-Point Turn-Up for the Book" | 21 February 1985 |
| DangerMouse goes after his car, which has taken off on its own, keeping DangerMouse from attending an award ceremony. | ||
| 51 | "Quark! Quark!" | 28 February 1985 |
| Penfold is instrumental in keeping alien, J.J. Quark, from taking over the Earth. | ||
| 52 | "Alping is Snow Easy Matter" | 7 March 1985 |
| Greenback is melting the polar ice caps to cause a flood and open up a market to sell rubber rafts at inflated prices. | ||
| 53 | "Aaargh! Spiders!" | 14 March 1985 |
| With Greenback on vacation, Stiletto uses a ray to create giant spiders to take over London. | ||
| 54 | "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing" | 21 March 1985 |
| DangerMouse assists B.L.E.E.P. in recovering an old English home that is being held for ransom. | ||
| 55 | "Afternoon Off – With the Fangboner" | 28 March 1985 |
| The alien J.J. Quark returns and sends a Fangboner to attack DangerMouse. | ||
| 56 | "Beware of Mexicans Delivering Milk" | 4 April 1985 |
| Penfold must defeat El Loco after he drugs DangerMouse's milk. | ||
| 57 | "Cat-Astrophe" | 11 April 1985 |
| Greenback creates a mechanical cat that kidnaps Colonel K. | ||
| 58 | "The Good, the Bad and the Motionless" | 18 April 1985 |
| DangerMouse investigates strange goings-on at Stonehenge only to battle his evil alter-ego. | ||
| 59 | "Statues" | 25 April 1985 |
| Greenback devises a ray that animates London's statues and causes them to wreak havoc. | ||
| 60 | "The Clock Strikes Back!" | 2 May 1985 |
| The clock returns with Merlin's predecessor as its passenger and it's up to DangerMouse and Penfold to stop the wizard from taking over the world. | ||
| 61 | "Ee-Tea!" | 9 May 1985 |
| Greenback has London at a standstill after he steals all of the world's tea. | ||
| 62 | "Bandits, Beans and Ballyhoo!" | 23 May 1985 |
| Unpacking from a holiday in Mexico, Penfold discovers El Loco hiding in his suitcase. El Loco gets loose and goes on a crime spree in London. | ||
| 63 | "Have You Fled Any Good Books Lately" | 30 May 1985 |
| Penfold's gift from J.J. Quark sets monsters after DangerMouse and Penfold. | ||
| 64 | "Tut, Tut, It's Not Pharaoh" | 6 June 1985 |
| Greenback sets out to steal an ancient Egyptian amulet which DangerMouse and Penfold have been sent to find. | ||
| 65 | "Lost, Found and Spellbound" | 13 June 1985 |
| DangerMouse battles a witch doctor when he and Penfold go to rescue Professor Squakencluck whose plane crashed in the China sea. | ||
| 66 | "Penfold, B.F." | 20 June 1985 |
| Penfold swallows Professor Squakencluck's new pill and is turned into a superhero which causes DangerMouse more problems than usual as he searches for a lost messenger pigeon. | ||
| 67 | "Mechanized Mayhem" | 27 June 1985 |
| Under orders from a supercomputer, all the world's machines mutiny and refuse to do their jobs. | ||
| 68 | "Journey to the Earth's... 'Cor" | 25 December 1985 |
| Penfold and DangerMouse journey to the center of the Earth to stop a loud noise that originates there. | ||
[edit] Series 7 (1986)
Series 7 episodes were originally aired as 25 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 69 | "DangerMouse on the Orient Express" | 11 November 1986 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold travel on the Orient Express with a document they obtained from Greenback. | ||
| 70 | "The Ultra Secret Secret" | 20 November 1986 |
| Greenback offers to team up with DangerMouse in order to thwart an alien invasion. | ||
| 71 | "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat" | 27 November 1986 |
| Count Duckula teams up with Dr Frankenstoat to take over the world with an army of robot vampoids. | ||
| 72 | "Where There's A Well There's A Way" | 4 December 1986 |
| DangerMouse is sent to find Merlin's magic ink well which will grant the finder a wish. | ||
| 73 | "All Fall Down" | 11 December 1986 |
| DangerMouse must recover plans to a top secret device capable of shattering the world. | ||
| 74 | "Turn Of The Tide" | 18 December 1986 |
| DangerMouse travels to the moon and discovers it has been turned into a scrap yard, which has caused the tide to change and flood the Earth. | ||
[edit] Series 8 (1987)
Series 8 episodes were originally aired as 10 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 75 | "Gremlin Alert" | 20 February 1987 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold set out to stop the illogical Gremlin from turning Earth's sunlight into darkness. | ||
| 76 | "Cor! What a Picture" | 27 February 1987 |
| Penfold tries to kill DangerMouse after Greenback steals a picture of Penfold for use in a mind control machine. | ||
[edit] Series 9 (1991-1992)
The show's appearance changed noticeably starting with this series, now brighter with altered artwork (most notably DangerMouse himself).
Series 9 episodes were originally aired as 25 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | "I Spy With My Little Eye" | 3 January 1991 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold are sent to the Arctic when Greenback threatens to melt the polar icecaps with sun lamps. | ||
| 78 | "Bigfoot Falls" | 10 January 1991 |
| DangerMouse and Penfold are sent to track down a huge hairy monster that has been crushing the local villages. When they find it they discover he's actually friendly, but suffers from extreme bouts of sore-feet. They get help from the RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Podiatrists. | ||
| 79 | "The Statue of Liberty Caper" | 9 January 1992 |
| DangerMouse is sent to stop Greenback who is behind the theft of America's greatest buildings. | ||
| 80 | "Penfold Transformed" | 16 January 1992 |
| Professor Crumhorn creates a robot duplicate of Penfold (which is far more efficient than the original). At the push of a button it transforms into a giant machine intent on destroying DangerMouse. | ||
| 81 | "A Dune With a View" | 23 January 1992 |
| The Mark III runs out of gas, leaving DM and Penfold stranded in the Sahara Desert. | ||
| 82 | "Don Coyote and Sancho Penfold" | 31 January 1992 |
| While on holiday in Spain, Penfold is kidnapped by a mad Coyote who thinks he is Don Quixote. They go tilting at a windmill that happens to contain Baron Greenback's latest device for world domination. | ||
[edit] Series 10 (1992)
Series 10 episodes were originally aired as 25 minute segments.
| Episode | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 83 | "Crumhorn Strikes Back!" | 6 February 1992 |
| Professor Crumhorn returns and uses his transformation pills to turn himself into a little girl in an attempt to get DangerMouse to break into Fort Knox. | ||
| 84 | "Ants, Trees and ... Whoops-A-Daisy" | 13 February 1992 |
| Just when Penfold should be meeting his Aunt at the airport, he and DangerMouse are sent to the Amazon jungle where a tribe have been sacrificing people to The Great Ant God from Ataxia. Penfold is captured, and things look grim, but then Penfold's Aunt arrives from a taxi and tells them all to stop playing silly games. | ||
| 85 | "There's A Penfold In My Suit" | 20 February 1992 |
| Penfold puts on DangerMouse's suit and can't get out, causing Colonel K to think he is DangerMouse. Later, DM and Penfold go to Bratislavakia to find out why all the countries of Central Europe have swapped places. There they, Greenback and Stiletto all fall foul of a mystical stone that causes people to swap bodies. | ||
| 86 | "Rhyme And Punishment" | 27 February 1992 |
| Dr Crumhorn "Ka-zonks" DM and Penfold into a hallucinatory world in an attempt to drive them crazy. | ||
| 87 | "Pillow Fright!" | 5 March 1992 |
| Greenback attempts to take over England with his latest invention...an army of remote control, allergy causing pillows. | ||
| 88 | "Heavy Duty" | 12 March 1992 |
| Crumhorn invents a chemical that allows him to create land sharks to terrorize London. Things get even more complicated when Penfold gets into the formula. | ||
| 89 | "The Intergalactic 147" | 19 March 1992 |
| A giant spaceship is spotted heading for Earth. It's is part of the "Intergalactic 147" snooker game and it wants to pot the Earth into a black hole. | ||
