| Bodger & Badger | |
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Bodger (Andy Cunningham) and Badger, his mashy mate and a part-time character, China the Dog |
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| Created by | Andy Cunningham |
| Starring | Andy Cunningham |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 124 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Original run | 13 September 1989 – 29 March 1999 |
Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
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The first series saw Bodger working at Troff's Nosherama, where his badger was unknown to the other characters. The second and third series were set in the Letsby Avenue Junior School (fans generally regard these as the best series); Bodger worked as the caretaker for the school and there was general antagonism between him and the schoolchildren - a large cast of children - and the headteachers Mrs Trout ('Fish-Face') and later Mrs Bogart ('Bogey'). Later series featured Bodger moving to other jobs and began to feature less of Bodger, concentrating more on Badger and his friend Mousey. She was not an overly intelligent mouse, who unsurprisingly had a fondness for cheese.
All 9 series were produced between 1989 and 1999 and 124 episodes were made.
Series 1
Series 1 featured Bodger and Badger working in Troff's Nosherama, a run-down café. Bodger worked in the kitchens as a chef. Both Bodger and Badger made friends with the waitress, Mavis. Troff's Nosherama was run by Mr Troff who was very arrogant. Troff had no idea of Badger's presence until the last episode in the series.
Series 2 and 3
Series 2 and 3 featured Bodger and Badger working at Letsby Avenue junior school; Simon worked as the caretaker, Badger made friends with the school children and crawled around the air vents. Letsby Avenue's headmistress was the overweight and mean Mrs Trout, there was also the friendly and dim-witted deputy head Miss Moon. Later in Series 3 Mrs Trout was fired and Miss Moon became the new temporary headmistress until Mrs Bogart (Mrs Trout's sister) took over as headmistress. All of the school children knew about Badger but Mrs Trout, Mrs Bogart and Miss Moon did not.
Series 4
Series 4 featured Bodger and Badger working at Chessington World of Adventures, a real theme park in Surrey. Bodger was the caretaker there, and Badger made friends with a girl called Holly who frequently visited the theme park. Bodger's boss was Mr Beasley, who was mean and obsessed with rules. Beasley kept trying to catch Badger to try to get Bodger chucked out. Series 4's episodes were cut down to 10 minutes, instead of 15.
Series 5, 6 and 7
Series 5, 6 and 7 featured Bodger and Badger living in a rented bedsit flat. Badger met his friend Mousey in Series 5, a mouse who lived under the floorboards. Badger kept Mousey's presence a secret from Bodger, because Bodger tried to get rid of Mousey in the first episode of Series 5 by setting traps for her. Series 5 mainly featured everyday adventures between Bodger, Badger and Mousey. Series 6 mainly featured the pair having trouble with their new landlady, Mrs Dribelle, and Elton (her sidekick) who did all her dirty work. Mrs Dribelle didn't allow her tenants to keep animals in her properties, so Bodger always had to hide Badger whenever she came to the flat. Series 7 featured more everyday adventures, and over the course of Series 7 various different people moved into the flat upstairs including a slimy trickster called Mr Smart, and Mrs Dribelle's niece, Vicky. Mrs Dribelle herself lived in the upstairs flat temporarily while her house was renovated. Some of the sound effects used are actually ones heard in the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
Series 8 and 9
Series 8 and 9 featured Bodger and Badger running a B&B in the fictional town of Puddleford. Various guests stayed at the hotel over the course of the two series, and again Bodger kept Badger's presence a secret from all of them. Guests included two Spanish flamenco dancers, Miss Peake (a bad-tempered school teacher), Mr Tucknott (a dim-witted bank manager), the bubbly Mrs Bobbins, Miss Piper (a mad old woman) and Mr Wilson (a pathetic trainee bank manager). In Series 8 the characters of Millie the Milkwoman and China the dog were introduced, who featured in the show until the very end. Millie was friends with Bodger and knew about Badger, as he was friends with her dog, China. Series 8 also featured the return of Mr Smart, as he ran the B&B next door to Bodger's. Smart never seemed to have any guests staying at his hotel and was always trying to steal Bodger's. In Series 9 the character of Mrs Melly was introduced, the bossy tourist information officer who stopped people from having fun on the beach outside her office. She hated Bodger and refused to recommend his B&B to tourists.
| Series | No. of episodes | Run |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 13 September 1989 – 1 November 1989 |
| 2 | 12 | 9 January 1991 – 27 March 1991 |
| 3 | 12 | 1 October 1991 – 17 December 1991 |
| 4 | 9 | 13 September 1993 – 8 November 1993 |
| 5 | 13 | 9 January 1995 – 3 April 1995 |
| 6 | 12 | 15 January 1996 – 27 March 1996 |
| 7 | 28 | 9 September 1996 - 24 March 1997 |
| 8 | 15 | 15 December 1997 - 30 March 1998 |
| 9 | 15 | 14 December 1998 - 29 March 1999 |
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Bodger is Chef" | 13 September 1989 |
| Simon Bodger must win a cookery contest to get the Chef's job at Troff's Nosherama. | ||
| 2 | "The Badgers Are Coming" | 20 September 1989 |
| Badger ends up inside a cake. | ||
| 3 | "The Health Inspector" | 27 September 1989 |
| The Health Inspector pays a visit to Troff's Nosherama while the inspector thinks she's seeing badgers. | ||
| 4 | "Portrait of Hector" | 4 October 1989 |
| Mr Troff decides the Nosherama needs a new Welcome sign. Mr Troff thinks Mavis is the artist, but in actual fact it is Badger. | ||
| 5 | "Auntie Warnty" | 11 October 1989 |
| Mr Troff’s Australian aunt comes to visit the Nosherama. | ||
| 6 | "Adrian Loud Warbler" | 18 October 1989 |
| Adrian Loud Warbler invites Mavis to lunch to discuss a singing job. Unfortunately he takes her to the Nosherama! | ||
| 7 | "The Robot" | 25 October 1989 |
| Bodger is in danger of being replaced as chef at the Nosherama when a salesman shows Mr Troff a new ‘Shove-a-Chef.' | ||
| 8 | "The Final Episode" | 1 November 1989 |
| Bodger and Badger are left in charge of the Nosherama, but things don't quite go according to plan. Mashed potato mayhem ensues. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Letsby Avenue" | 9 January 1991 |
| Bodger applies for the handyman's job at Letsby Avenue Junior School, but will he get it? | ||
| 2 | "Abracabadger" | 16 January 1991 |
| Will magic be enough when Miss Moon sees Badger? Class Four come to the rescue. | ||
| 3 | "The Bare Mayor" | 23 January 1991 |
| Mrs Trout announces that the mayor is coming to visit the school, but Badger gets the wrong end of the stick. | ||
| 4 | "The Skeleton" | 30 January 1991 |
| Mrs Trout purchases a skeleton for the school, but at the expense of any school trips. | ||
| 5 | "Mr Woberts The Watcatcher" | 6 February 1991 |
| Mrs Trout thinks the school has rats, so she calls in a ratcatcher. | ||
| 6 | "The Hairy Fairy" | 13 February 1991 |
| Mrs Trout's birthday cake from the cake shop mysteriously disappears shortly after Badger opens it, so Simon makes a miniature mashed potato statue of the headmistress as a replacement. Miss Moon spots this and thinks the fairies have cast a spell on Mrs Trout. | ||
| 7 | "The Wonky Window" | 20 February 1991 |
| Bodger and Badger attempt to repair a wonky window in Mrs Trout's office, without much success. | ||
| 8 | "Mr Crusher and the Ninja Zombies From Mars" | 27 February 1991 |
| Class Four are not impressed with Miss Moon's pixie prancing in PE class. However, they soon discover that the new gym teacher is a lot worse. | ||
| 9 | "The Burglar" | 6 March 1991 |
| Bodger and Badger mistake Mrs Trout for a burglar when she puts on a costume for the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball. But it isn't long before a real burglar breaks in to steal the school trophies. | ||
| 10 | "Snowflakes in Hawaii" | 13 March 1991 |
| It's Hawaiian Day at Letsby Avenue. But the fun day proves not to be, when Mrs Trout cancels the coal delivery. | ||
| 11 | "Mavis and the Fingerpoppers" | 20 March 1991 |
| Mavis from Troff's Nosherama, who is now a pop star, comes to visit Simon at the school.Everyone is excited to have a pop star on the premises, even Mrs Trout. Mavis hypnotises Badger into singing "Old MacDonald". | ||
| 12 | "School's Out" | 27 March 1991 |
| As the end of term approaches, Bodger and Badger reminisce about their year at Letsby Avenue. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
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| 1 | "Mr Valentino and the Rubber Bottom" | 1 October 1991 |
| Mr Valentino, the chairman of the school's Governors, has dinner with Mrs Trout who gets a rubber bottom. | ||
| 2 | "William Tell" | 8 October 1991 |
| Mrs Trout writes, directs and stars in the school play, "William Tell". But will everything be all right on the night? Not likely with Bodger and Badger about. | ||
| 3 | "The Head's Anniversary" | 15 October 1991 |
| Badger decides to enter Mrs Trout's poetry competition. | ||
| 4 | "The Golden Alarm Clock" | 22 October 1991 |
| Mr Valentino decides to award Miss Moon a golden alarm clock for not missing a day's school. Mrs Trout is not happy. | ||
| 5 | "The New Moon" | 29 October 1991 |
| Miss Moon gets a thump on the head and a new view of life. Badger shows her that mash potato is fun to play with. | ||
| 6 | "Eamon and the New Headmistress" | 5 November 1991 |
| As Mrs Trout has been sent back to teacher training college to learn how to read, the new headmistress Mrs Bogart arrives. She brings along her loathsome nephew, Eamon, to replace Bodger as the school handyman, so Badger and the children try to scare him off. | ||
| 7 | "The Mashed Potato Gun" | 12 November 1991 |
| A new communcation system is set up in the school and Badger makes a mashed potato gun. | ||
| 8 | "The Difficult Test" | 19 November 1991 |
| Mrs Bogart is determined to make Class 4 sit a difficult test. However, with so many interruptions (mostly from Bodger who is trying to have a fire drill), will it ever happen? | ||
| 9 | "The Head's Twin Sister" | 26 November 1991 |
| Mrs Bogart will stop at nothing to get hold of Bodger's competition winnings, even posing as her own hard-up identical twin sister! | ||
| 10 | "The Baby" | 3 December 1991 |
| Miss Moon has agreed to look after her neighbour's baby for the day. Badger, Rocky and Vicky trick Mrs Bogart into eating laxative chocolate. | ||
| 11 | "The Doubling Box" | 10 December 1991 |
| Mrs Bogart is charging for lost property and keeps stealing the children's possessions to top up on takings. Badger does what he can to stop her. | ||
| 12 | "The Class Photo" | 17 December 1991 |
| Badger is having a bath because it's time for the class photograph. When the photographer is cancelled, Miss Moon asks Bodger to help out. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
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| 1 | "The Arrival" | 13 September 1993 |
| Bodger starts a new job as handyman at the Chessington World of Adventures park, where no pets are allowed. But Badger is determined to join Bodger, and together the pair meet Holly who hangs about a lot in the park - for free - because her mum works in the kitchens. All seems well until Badger realises that he hasn't seen any mashed potato in the park. | ||
| 2 | "Mr Beasley's Barrow" | 20 September 1993 |
| Mr Beasley tries to catch Badger, who is still at the theme park, but is confused as Bodger, Holly and Badger have great fun tricking him. | ||
| 3 | "The Tapirs" | 27 September 1993 |
| Badger makes friends with some unusual animals, the tapirs. | ||
| 4 | "The Elephant's Trunk" | 4 October 1993 |
| Bodger fixes the elephant's trunk and Badger tries to hit Mr Beasley with mashed potato. | ||
| 5 | "A Hard Day's Knight" | 11 October 1993 |
| Bodger dresses up as a knight, while Badger tries his paw at flying and Holly rescues him. | ||
| 6 | "The New Clothes" | 18 October 1993 |
| Mr Beasley is issued with a new uniform, but Bodger manages to ruin most of it with the help of Badger and some mashed potato. | ||
| 7 | "The Dragon" | 25 October 1993 |
| Holly wins a watch at Bodger and Badger's unconventional ball tossing stall, but Mr Beasley takes it from her. Badger thinks of a novel way of getting it back. | ||
| 8 | "Wet Paint" | 1 November 1993 |
| Mr Beasley sits on a painted bench and tries to reprimand Bodger for not following orders. Instead, Head Office allow Bodger to run the ice-cream cart. | ||
| 9 | "Catapult" | 8 November 1993 |
| Mr Beasley has finally mastered a plan to catch Badger using a catapult. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
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| 1 | "A Mouse in the House" | 9 January 1995 |
| Bodger and Badger are living in a new flat. They think they're alone until Badger makes friends with a mouse who lives under the floorboards. | ||
| 2 | "Under The Floorboards" | 16 January 1995 |
| Badger finds it hard to visit Mousey under the floorboards, so he thinks of a plan to get under. | ||
| 3 | "Washday" | 23 January 1995 |
| After their new washing machine blows up, Bodger and Badger have to go to the laundrette. Badger causes chaos as usual and the pair accidentally leave Bodger's washing in the laundrette. | ||
| 4 | "Mr Selby's Pictures" | 30 January 1995 |
| When Bodger accidentally paints a shop sign back to front, Badger finds a quick solution with an electric saw. | ||
| 5 | "Ancient Egyptian Mashed Potato" | 6 February 1995 |
| Bodger has trouble with two burglars, "Boss" and Courtney, who try to steal a valuable Ancient Egyptian statue which belongs to Bodger's aunt. Badger decides to scare the burglars off by being the ghost of the Egyptian statue. | ||
| 6 | "Rent Money" | 13 February 1995 |
| When the rent money goes missing, Bodger and Badger are told to move out. Nothing can help them get their flat back - except Mousey. | ||
| 7 | "Here Comes Raymond" | 20 February 1995 |
| Bodger's old school friend - the greedy Raymond Tompkins - comes to stay, and Badger declares war to scare and get rid him. | ||
| 8 | "Twin Brother" | 27 February 1995 |
| Bodger rations the mash potato, so Badger invents a twin brother in order to get double his portion. | ||
| 9 | "Mashy Mouse" | 6 March 1995 |
| When Bodger decides to borrow a cat to get rid of the mouse in the house, Badger and Mousey have to find a way of showing him he was imagining things. | ||
| 10 | "Seaside" | 13 March 1995 |
| Badger wants to go to the seaside but the weather forecast is bad, so he decides to make his own seaside - in the bathroom. | ||
| 11 | "Cosmic Potatoes" | 20 March 1995 |
| Badger and Mousey trick Bodger into believing that martians are under the floorboards. | ||
| 12 | "One of Those Days" | 27 March 1995 |
| Badger makes a huge amount of mashed potato and then has to find places to store it, then Bodger's computer goes wrong after Badger and Mousey have a go on it. | ||
| 13 | "Mad Mash Bash" | 3 April 1995 |
| During a race with Mousey, Badger bangs his head and loses his memory. Mousey helps him to remember by reminding him of all of the adventures they have had. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Mrs Dribelle!" | 15 January 1996 |
| Bodger and Badger come face-to-face with their new landlady, the fearsome Mrs Dribelle, whose main objective is to get Bodger out of the flat. | ||
| 2 | "Badger in the Box" | 22 January 1996 |
| Mrs Dribelle sends her nasty assistant, Elton, to intimidate Bodger into leaving the flat. After Badger hits him on the head with a frying pan, Elton is determined to catch him and get Bodger thrown out for breaking the rule of "No animals allowed." | ||
| 3 | "Potty" | 29 January 1996 |
| Badger finds Bodger's cactus very amusing as it has been planted in a potty. After an unexpected bump on the head, Badger drives Bodger mad by thinking he's Super Badger. | ||
| 4 | "Lottery Lunacy" | 5 February 1996 |
| Bodger thinks he has won the lottery, after leaving Badger in charge of writing down the numbers. He later regrets a rude phone call to Mrs Dribelle when he discovers he hasn't won the lottery after all. | ||
| 5 | "Mrs Dribelle's Mother" | 12 February 1996 |
| In an attempt to get Bodger out of her house, Mrs Dribelle pretends to have a sick mother (Elton in drag) who needs his room! | ||
| 6 | "Pussy Cake, Pussy Cake" | 19 February 1996 |
| Fluffykins (Mrs Dribelle's cat)' birthday cake is delivered to Bodger and Badger's address. Badger is determined to prove to Mousey that the cake is not a real cat, and ends up destroying it. They then create a substitute cake out of mashed potato and baked beans. | ||
| 7 | "Diet" | 26 February 1996 |
| When Badger gets stuck in his badger flap, Bodger decides it's high time he went on a mash-free diet with a healthy dose of exercise, much to Badger's displeasure. | ||
| 8 | "Badger's Bed" | 4 March 1996 |
| After finding more of Badger's mash potato in his clothes drawer, Bodger buys Badger a new bed that turns out to be a baby's cot. Meanwhile, Elton is still determined to catch Badger and show him to Mrs Dribelle. | ||
| 9 | "The Countess of Skegness" | 11 March 1996 |
| Bodger loses his rent money and tries to make amends by washing Mrs Dribelle's car, but unintentionally covers it in mash potato after getting the water buckets mixed up. Later on, Mrs Dribelle's attempt to welcome the Countess of Skegness gets ruined thanks to Badger. | ||
| 10 | "Overdue" | 18 March 1996 |
| Bodger receives a letter from the library saying that he has an overdue book and now must return it. Unfortunately, Badger lent it to Mousey who converted it into a mattress. | ||
| 11 | "Badger's Party" | 25 March 1996 |
| Mrs Dribelle tries tricking Bodger with a document to get him out of the flat. Fortunately, thanks to Badger, Bodger signs the other side of the document saying that he can stay in the flat for as long as he wants. Now Badger has to stop Elton from getting it back. | ||
| 12 | "Around the World with Badger and Mousey" | 27 March 1996 |
| Before Badger and Mousey set off on their round-the-world trip, they take a look back at some of the adventures they have had that year. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
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| 1 | "Jungle Fever" | 9 September 1996 |
| Bodger has become Mrs Dribelle's handyman, and she gives him the task of looking after her plants and doing plant removing. Meanwhile, Badger causes chaos by turning the house into a jungle and the garden into a desert. | ||
| 2 | "Catnapped" | 16 September 1996 |
| Someone threatens to kidnap Mrs Dribelle's cat Fluffykins. Bodger agrees to look after the cat while she finds a detective, so Mousey leaves home in protest. | ||
| 3 | "Here Comes Smarty Pants!" | 23 September 1996 |
| Mrs Dribelle has a sneaky new tenant, Alec Smart, who always has plenty of dishonest money-making schemes. When he notices Bodger's expensive camera, Mr Smart tricks him into swapping it for some false stain remover. Badger then comes up with a clever idea to get it back. | ||
| 4 | "Funny Money" | 30 September 1996 |
| Mr Smart starts forging money by simply photocopying £50 notes, which he intends to use by buying the house off Mrs Dribelle. Badger tries to cheer Simon up with practical jokes. | ||
| 5 | "Wet Paint!" | 7 October 1996 |
| Mr Smart comes up with another devious scheme in selling Mrs Dribelle a painting, which turns out to be more of Badger's doing with mash potato. | ||
| 6 | "Gnome From Gnome" | 14 October 1996 |
| Mrs Dribelle's garden gnomes are going missing. The culprit, of course, is Mr Smart who is stealing all the gnomes in the area hoping to make a profit. Badger and Mousey make a mashed potato satellite. | ||
| 7 | "Mrs Dribelle's Big Day" | 21 October 1996 |
| Mr Smart pretends to be the wealthy "Baron of Billericay" and proposes to Mrs Dribelle with a fake ring. Now Bodger must stop her from making a big mistake. | ||
| 8 | "World Badger Day" | 28 October 1996 |
| Badger is bored so he decides to make a holiday of his own called "World Badger Day" - a time when everyone has to be nice to all badgers (and mice). | ||
| 9 | "Mrs Dribelle and The Queen" | 4 November 1996 |
| Mrs Dribelle is going to a pageant dressed as the Queen and Bodger gets roped into being her servant for the day. Mousey thinks she'll be going off to live in Buckingham Palace. | ||
| 10 | "Wotcha Vicky!" | 11 November 1996 |
| Badger makes a new friend when Mrs Dribelle's niece, Vicky, moves in upstairs. She is a drummer and she loves mash potato, but Mrs Dribelle is constantly making her miserable. | ||
| 11 | "Radio Competition" | 18 November 1996 |
| Bodger and Badger help Vicky write a song for the radio, but the words don't come out as expected as Mrs Dribelle ends up winning. | ||
| 12 | "Monkey Trouble" | 25 November 1996 |
| Vicky goes to the market and gets a drumming job, where she has to dress up as a gorilla. So Bodger and Badger go to the market, but the gorilla outfit annoys Mrs Dribelle. | ||
| 13 | "Say Cheese!" | 2 December 1996 |
| When Mousey chews through Mrs Dribelle's best dress, there's trouble ahead. | ||
| 14 | "Vicky is a Hit" | 9 December 1996 |
| Vicky applies for a job as a drummer and prepares to go for an interview. But she needs Bodger and Badger's help to make sure Mrs Dribelle doesn't know. | ||
| 15 | "Mashy Christmas Everybody" | 16 December 1996 |
| Badger and Mousey celebrate Christmas and remember some of their adventures that year. | ||
| 16 | "Mashy Music" | 1 January 1997 |
| Vicky doesn't get the drumming job, so she sells her drum kit. Badger and Mousey buy it and try to cheer her up by forming a band, but they need a drummer. | ||
| 17 | "Good Luck Vicky" | 6 January 1997 |
| Mrs Dribelle tries to make Vicky work on her last afternoon, but Vicky has other plans. | ||
| 18 | "Too Close For Comfort" | 13 January 1997 |
| Mrs Dribelle moves into the flat upstairs and Bodger sticks her wallpaper on with mashed potato by mistake. Then Badger and Mousey pretend to be ghosts to frighten her. | ||
| 19 | "The Mashy Mushtake" | 20 January 1997 |
| Badger and Mousey get things mixed up, including Mrs Dribelle's beauty cream and some mashed potato. | ||
| 20 | "While The Cat's Away" | 27 January 1997 |
| Badger and Mousey try to trap a cat burglar that has broken into the flat. | ||
| 21 | "Mrs Dribelle's Dancing Partner" | 3 February 1997 |
| Mrs Dribelle is learning to dance so her friend Hubert can take her to a ball. In desperate need of practice, she forces Bodger to help her out. Meanwhile, Bodger's shower isn't working, so he has to use Mrs Dribelle's while she's out. | ||
| 22 | "Vote For Me - Or Else!" | 10 February 1997 |
| Mrs Dribelle stands for the town council election - but will anyone vote for her? | ||
| 23 | "Cuckoo" | 17 February 1997 |
| After Bodger inherits a grandfather clock, Badger and Mousey decide to turn it into a cuckoo clock. | ||
| 24 | "The Mash Baaa-sh" | 24 February 1997 |
| When Badger can't sleep, Mousey suggests that he count sheep. | ||
| 25 | "On The Blink" | 3 March 1997 |
| Bodger gets a letter telling him the video he sent of himself reading poems is going to be on the programme 'Say Cheese', but he runs into problems trying to watch it on TV. | ||
| 26 | "Pasta Masha" | 10 March 1997 |
| Badger has a visit from his Italian friend Luigi, a fellow badger who enjoys hurling spaghetti. | ||
| 27 | "Clay Days" | 17 March 1997 |
| Bodger enters a pottery competition, but he doesn't expect Mousey to be in the pot. | ||
| 28 | "The Time Masheen" | 24 March 1997 |
| Badger and Mousey travel back in time to relive some of their favourite adventures. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Smart Start" | 15 December 1997 |
| Bodger, Badger and Mousey arrive in Puddleford to run the Seagull's Rest Bed and Breakfast. But they hadn't counted on the sneaky Alec Smart running the hotel next door to theirs. | ||
| 2 | "Well Spotted" | 22 December 1997 |
| Mr Smart is trying to steal all of Bodger's hotel guests, but Badger and Mousey have other plans and use spots of red paint to get them back. | ||
| 3 | "Peace and Quiet" | 5 January 1998 |
| An unpleasant guest named Miss Peake comes to Seagull's Rest for a nice quiet holiday, but Badger's antics make it impossible. | ||
| 4 | "The Extra-Terrestrial Toothbrush" | 12 January 1998 |
| After a horrid stay from the night before, Miss Peake decides to leave Seagull's Rest and go somewhere else. Mr Smart immediately pounces on her and tries to persuade her to stay at his hotel. Bodger decides to make a trifle to make it up to her. When the trifle starts jumping around the kitchen, Bodger and Miss Peake think it has been taken over by aliens - but Badger knows better. | ||
| 5 | "Hat Ahoy!" | 19 January 1998 |
| Miss Peake's sun hat goes missing, so Bodger and Badger have to get it back. | ||
| 6 | "Seaweed Bay" | 26 January 1998 |
| Badger and Mousey lead Miss Peake and Mr Smart on a wild goose chase as they hunt for the legendary "Pirate treasure of Puddleford." | ||
| 7 | "Fancy That" | 2 February 1998 |
| Bodger and Millie persuade Miss Peake to enter the fancy dress competition on the last day of her holiday at Seagull's Rest. | ||
| 8 | "Water Laugh" | 9 February 1998 |
| Bodger and Badger try to compete with Mr Smart's amazing garden decorations for the upcoming gardening competition. | ||
| 9 | "The Potato Patch" | 16 February 1998 |
| Badger has his eye on Mr Smart's potatoes - and when Smart cheats Bodger out of 20 pounds, Badger puts more than his eye on the potatoes. | ||
| 10 | "Doggone" | 23 February 1998 |
| Badger finds a lost dog called China, so he, Bodger and Millie decide to return him to his owner. However, after hearing about the reward for finding the dog, Mr Smart tries to steal China for himself. | ||
| 11 | "Automashic" | 2 March 1998 |
| New guests Mr Tucknott and Mrs Bobbins arrive at Seagull's Rest which is being taken over by robots who sound uncannily like Badger and Mousey. | ||
| 12 | "Mashy Record Breakers" | 9 March 1998 |
| Who do you think holds the record for making the biggest mess with mashed potato? | ||
| 13 | "Big Bear" | 16 March 1998 |
| Is Mrs Bobbins' toy bear really a toy bear - or is it Badger in disguise? | ||
| 14 | "Mash Cash" | 23 March 1998 |
| Badger and Mousey cause chaos when they think Mr Tucknott has stolen Mrs Bobbins' money, but he is only trying to help. | ||
| 15 | "Splosh!" | 30 March 1998 |
| Badger and Mousey form their own fire brigade and rig up fire extinguishers (full of mash potato) in the hotel. | ||
| # | Title | Original Air Date |
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| 1 | "Hello Mrs Melly" | 14 December 1998 |
| The mean-minded Mrs S. Melly is the new Tourist Information Officer in Puddleford, and immediately takes a dislike to Bodger. To make matters worse, Badger has left the hotel in a mess when she comes round for an inspection. | ||
| 2 | "Poster Potatoes" | 21 December 1998 |
| After Mrs Melly refuses to add Seagull's Rest to her Good Hotel Guide, Bodger and Badger decide to do some advertising of their own. | ||
| 3 | "A Twitch In Time" | 4 January 1999 |
| Miss Piper, an elderly birdwatcher, comes to stay at Seagull's Rest hoping to spot a rare bird. Unfortunately, she reveals this to Mrs Melly, who has an idea to catch the rare bird so she can charge people to see it. | ||
| 4 | "A Whale of a Time" | 11 January 1999 |
| Bodger decides to make a video advertising Seagull's Rest. But it all goes wrong with Badger about, and Mousey wants to make a film. | ||
| 5 | "The Great Escape" | 18 January 1999 |
| Trainee Bank Manager Mr Wilson comes to stay at Seagull's Rest. Unfortunately, he gets locked in the bathroom when he has serious interview to go to, thanks to Mousey. | ||
| 6 | "Hundreds and Thousands" | 25 January 1999 |
| Mrs Melly mistakes Bodger's telephone conversation for winning the lottery and starts being nice to him, thinking he's won hundreds and thousands of pounds. | ||
| 7 | "Mr Wilson's Bathing Trunks" | 1 February 1999 |
| Mr Wilson has a job interview to attend, but beforehand he decides to go for a swim. Things go awry when Mrs Melly takes his clothes away whilst he's swimming and refuses to give them back. | ||
| 8 | "Green Potatoes" | 8 February 1999 |
| Bodger's new green towel gets ruined thanks to Mousey, so Badger makes another one by covering a white one with green paint, but they hadn't counted on Mrs Melly using it. | ||
| 9 | "A Mashy Romance" | 15 February 1999 |
| P.E teacher Mr Gripper arrives to stay at Seagull's Rest. He comes across Mrs Melly and immediately falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Badger and Mousey bottle mashed potato soup, some of which ends up in a sun tan lotion bottle. | ||
| 10 | "China Comes To Stay" | 22 February 1999 |
| Millie leaves China with Bodger and Badger to look after him for a day. | ||
| 11 | "Pop" | 1 March 1999 |
| While watching a film on the TV, Bodger receives a Sodastream fizzy pop machine in the post and sets about making fizzy pop, but Badger and Mousey decide to make fizzy mash with Millie's empty milk bottles. When the corks shoot off the bottles, Bodger and Mr Wilson believe it's gunshots and that the hotel is being raided by bank robbers. | ||
| 12 | "Ready, Steady, Go" | 8 March 1999 |
| Mr Gripper challenges Mr Wilson to a running race around the sea front, but when Badger and Mousey see him cheating, they decide to stop him from winning. | ||
| 13 | "Mrs Melly Investigates" | 15 March 1999 |
| After finding rabbits in another hotel in Puddleford, Mrs Melly decides to find out once and for all what is happening at Bodger's hotel. Badger thinks Mrs Melly is a burglar and sets all the anti-burglar devices off. | ||
| 14 | "Puddleford Day" | 22 March 1999 |
| It's a special day of dressing up in Puddleford, as it's the day when Queen Elizabeth I visited their town, only Badger has other plans for this day including ruining Mrs Melly's poem. | ||
| 15 | "Mashy Museum" | 29 March 1999 |
| Badger, Mousey and China show a various amount of items that remind them, of memories from the previous episodes, of how much fun they had. | ||
Bodger and Badger has enjoyed something of a cult status, particularly among teenagers and those in their twenties who grew up with the programme. It has also found popularity amongst students, tuning into daytime re-runs. As such, it has led to a popular tour of UK universities; 'Mashed Potato Theme Nights' have been seen at Hull, Aston, Warwick, Bath and Buckinghamshire New and will be also seen soon at Aberystwyth. A DVD, 'Bodger and Badger: Live', was released on the 6 November 2006.
The theme tune was sung by Tim Whalley, Simon Cross-Fancy and two other children.