Gophers! | |
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Format | Live Action, Puppet Show |
Created by | Mark Mason |
Starring | Lou Hirsch Francis Wright Erik Collinson Jeremy Stockwell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Channel 4 |
Original run | 1990 – 1990 |
Gophers! was a Channel 4 children's programme about a family of American gophers who move into a new neighbourhood, called Sycamore Heights, living next door to a family of uptight but well-intentioned rabbits, The Burrows.
There were many recurring jokes within this short lived show such as Arthur Burrows' vegetables planning a rebellion to escape his garden, a mad scientist ferret called Dr Wince, whose ambition was to conquer the world by obtaining a crystal buried in the Gophers' garden with the help of his reptilian servant Sly, and an alien in love with a zucchini determined to get home. Also there were Mexican cockroaches who lived in the Gophers' house always trying to steal their food.