List of Danger Mouse episodes
This is an episode guide for the children's animated television series Danger Mouse, made by Cosgrove Hall and first shown on ITV during its weekday lunchtime or afternoon children's programming. 161 episodes were made which were broadcast between 1981 and 1992. Later, VHS and DVD releases edited the 5-part stories together as single episodes, to total 89 episodes. The episode order is controversial because stories were often initially transmitted some years after the rest of the season to which they theoretically belonged, often forming part of a 'repeats season'. The US Region 1 DVD releases present the episodes in the UK broadcast order.
Series overview
Series | Episodes | Premiere | Finale | DVD | ||
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Pilots | 2 | N/A | 15 October 2001 (extra on the release Tower of Terror) | 31 May 2005 | ||
1 | 11 | 28 September 1981 | 14 December 1981 | 4 September 2006 | ||
2 | 30 | 4 January 1982 | 12 February 1982 | 5 March 2001 (as Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind!) | ||
3 | 17 | 4 October 1982 | 1 November 1982 | 4 September 2006 | 25 October 2005 | |
4 | 45 | 3 January 1983 | 23 May 1983 | |||
5 | 10 | 20 February 1984 | 30 April 1984 | 28 March 2006 | ||
6 | 27 | 25 December 1984 | 26 December 1985 | |||
7 | 6 | 13 November 1986 | 18 December 1986 | 26 September 2006 | ||
8 | 2 | 20 February 1987 | 27 February 1987 | |||
9 | 6 | 3 January 1991 | 7 February 1991 | |||
10 | 7 | 6 February 1992 | 19 March 1992 |
Total running time: 26 hours, 3 minutes
Pilot episodes (1979-1980)
Episode | Title | Original airdate |
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Pilot 1 | "[unknown]" | unaired |
However, there are no further details known as to whether this pilot was a different story, or earlier version of "The Mystery of the Lost Chord", which itself later became the episode, "Who Stole the Bagpipes?". | ||
Pilot 2 | "The Mystery of the Lost Chord" | unaired (first commercially released 15 October 2001) |
This pilot features no narration, William Franklyn plays Danger Mouse and Penfold has a Welsh accent. Ernest Penfold was voiced by Peter Hawkins. Baron Greenback is here named Baron Greenteeth (although, the DVD release erroneously lists him as Greenchief). Stiletto has an assistant henchman too. Although unaired, it was commercially released for the first time as a bonus feature on the 2001 UK DVD Tower of Terror. The DVD feature states it to be the second pilot episode, as the first pilot is "yet to be found". |
Series 1 (1981)
Series 1 episodes are 11 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. Series 1 was directed by Brian Cosgrove and was shown on ITV.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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1 | 1 | "Rogue Robots" | 28 September 1981 |
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2 | 2 | "Who Stole the Bagpipes" | 30 September 1981 |
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3 | 3 | "Trouble with Ghosts" | 5 October 1981 |
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4 | 4 | "Chicken Run" | 7 October 1981 |
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5 | 5 | "The Martian Misfit" | 12 October 1981 |
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6 | 6 | "The Dream Machine" | 14 October 1981 |
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7 | 7 | "Lord of the Bungle" | 19 October 1981 |
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8 | 8 | "Die Laughing" | 21 October 1981 |
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9 | 9 | "The World of Machines" | 26 October 1981 |
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10 | 10 | "Ice Station Camel" | 28 October 1981 |
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11 | 11 | "A Plague of Pyramids" | 14 December 1981 |
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Series 2 (Spring 1982)
Series 2 stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments over five consecutive days. VHS and DVD releases usually see these episodes edited together as one 25-minute episode, although in reality, these omnibus episodes run closer to 20 minutes as they lose David Jason's 'cliffhanger' narration over the "To be continued..." captions. On the VHS and DVD releases, the "Episode 1" suffix in the title card after the opening credits has often been left unaltered. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format. Series 2 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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12 | 1 | Custard "Episode 1" | 4 January 1982 |
13 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 5 January 1982 |
14 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 6 January 1982 |
15 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 7 January 1982 |
16 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 8 January 1982 |
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17 | 6 | Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind "Episode 1" | 11 January 1982 |
18 | 7 | "Episode 2" | 12 January 1982 |
19 | 8 | "Episode 3" | 13 January 1982 |
20 | 9 | "Episode 4" | 14 January 1982 |
21 | 10 | "Episode 5" | 15 January 1982 |
Title reference: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. | |||
22 | 11 | The Duel "Episode 1" | 18 January 1982 |
23 | 12 | "Episode 2" | 19 January 1982 |
24 | 13 | "Episode 3" | 20 January 1982 |
25 | 14 | "Episode 4" | 21 January 1982 |
26 | 15 | "Episode 5" | 22 January 1982 |
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27 | 16 | The Day of the Suds "Episode 1" | 25 January 1982 |
28 | 17 | "Episode 2" | 26 January 1982 |
29 | 18 | "Episode 3" | 27 January 1982 |
30 | 19 | "Episode 4" | 28 January 1982 |
31 | 20 | "Episode 5" | 29 January 1982 |
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32 | 21 | The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God "Episode 1" | 1 February 1982 |
33 | 22 | "Episode 2" | 2 February 1982 |
34 | 23 | "Episode 3" | 3 February 1982 |
35 | 24 | "Episode 4" | 4 February 1982 |
36 | 25 | "Episode 5" | 5 February 1982 |
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37 | 26 | The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse "Episode 1" | 8 February 1982 |
38 | 27 | "Episode 2" | 9 February 1982 |
39 | 28 | "Episode 3" | 10 February 1982 |
40 | 29 | "Episode 4" | 11 February 1982 |
41 | 30 | "Episode 5" | 12 February 1982 |
Danger Mouse meets Count Duckula when one ingredient turns out to be the feather of a vampire duck. |
Series 3 (Autumn 1982)
The first three stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format. The fourth and fifth stories were single 11-minute segments, and some sources (including iTunes UK and The Guinness Book of Classic British TV) list these episodes as belonging to the first series. This would appear to be supported by the fact that these final two episodes have the series 1 credit sequence with its original title card and the same series 1 animation. (The title card was changed to the more familiar logo from series 2 onwards.) Series 3 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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42 | 1 | The Invasion of Colonel K "Episode 1" | 4 October 1982 |
43 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 5 October 1982 |
44 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 6 October 1982 |
45 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 7 October 1982 |
46 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 8 October 1982 |
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47 | 6 | Danger Mouse Saves the World... Again! "Episode 1" | 11 October 1982 |
48 | 7 | "Episode 2" | 12 October 1982 |
49 | 8 | "Episode 3" | 13 October 1982 |
50 | 9 | "Episode 4" | 14 October 1982 |
51 | 10 | "Episode 5" | 15 October 1982 |
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52 | 11 | The Odd Ball Runaround "Episode 1" | 18 October 1982 |
53 | 12 | "Episode 2" | 19 October 1982 |
54 | 13 | "Episode 3" | 20 October 1982 |
55 | 14 | "Episode 4" | 21 October 1982 |
56 | 15 | "Episode 5" | 22 October 1982 |
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57 | 16 | "The Strange Case of the Ghost Bus" | 25 October 1982 |
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58 | 17 | "The Trip to America" | 1 November 1982 |
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Series 4 (1983)
Series 4 stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments over five consecutive days. This series was the longest-lived with 45 episodes. VHS and DVD releases usually see these episodes edited together as one 25-minute episode, although in reality, these omnibus episodes run closer to 20 minutes as they lose David Jason's 'cliffhanger' narration over the "To be continued..." captions. On the VHS and DVD releases, the "Episode 1" suffix in the title card after the opening credits has often been left unaltered. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format. Series 4 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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59 | 1 | The Wild, Wild Goose Chase! "Episode 1" | 3 January 1983 |
60 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 4 January 1983 |
61 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 5 January 1983 |
62 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 6 January 1983 |
63 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 7 January 1983 |
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64 | 6 | The Return of Count Duckula! "Episode 1" | 10 January 1983 |
65 | 7 | "Episode 2" | 11 January 1983 |
66 | 8 | "Episode 3" | 12 January 1983 |
67 | 9 | "Episode 4" | 13 January 1983 |
68 | 10 | "Episode 5" | 14 January 1983 |
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69 | 11 | Demons Aren't Dull?! "Episode 1" | 17 January 1983 |
70 | 12 | "Episode 2" | 18 January 1983 |
71 | 13 | "Episode 3" | 19 January 1983 |
72 | 14 | "Episode 4" | 20 January 1983 |
73 | 15 | "Episode 5" | 21 January 1983 |
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74 | 16 | 150 Million Years Lost "Episode 1" | 11 April 1983 |
75 | 17 | "Episode 2" | 12 April 1983 |
76 | 18 | "Episode 3" | 13 April 1983 |
77 | 19 | "Episode 4" | 14 April 1983 |
78 | 20 | "Episode 5" | 15 April 1983 |
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79 | 21 | The Planet of the Cats "Episode 1" | 18 April 1983 |
80 | 22 | "Episode 2" | 19 April 1983 |
81 | 23 | "Episode 3" | 20 April 1983 |
82 | 24 | "Episode 4" | 21 April 1983 |
83 | 25 | "Episode 5" | 22 April 1983 |
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84 | 26 | Four Heads Are Better Than Two "Episode 1" | 25 April 1983 |
85 | 27 | "Episode 2" | 26 April 1983 |
86 | 28 | "Episode 3" | 27 April 1983 |
87 | 29 | "Episode 4" | 28 April 1983 |
88 | 30 | "Episode 5" | 29 April 1983 |
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89 | 31 | Tower of Terror "Episode 1" | 9 May 1983 |
90 | 32 | "Episode 2" | 10 May 1983 |
91 | 33 | "Episode 3" | 11 May 1983 |
92 | 34 | "Episode 4" | 12 May 1983 |
93 | 35 | "Episode 5" | 13 May 1983 |
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94 | 36 | The Great Bone Idol "Episode 1" | 16 May 1983 |
95 | 37 | "Episode 2" | 17 May 1983 |
96 | 38 | "Episode 3" | 18 May 1983 |
97 | 39 | "Episode 4" | 19 May 1983 |
98 | 40 | "Episode 5" | 20 May 1983 |
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99 | 41 | Public Enemy No. 1 "Episode 1" | 23 May 1983 |
100 | 42 | "Episode 2" | 24 May 1983 |
101 | 43 | "Episode 3" | 25 May 1983 |
102 | 44 | "Episode 4" | 26 May 1983 |
103 | 45 | "Episode 5" | 27 May 1983 |
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Series 5 (1984)
Series 5 episodes are 10 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. Series 5 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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104 | 1 | "Long Lost Crown Affair" | 20 February 1984 |
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105 | 2 | "By George, It's a Dragon!" | 27 February 1984 |
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106 | 3 | "Tiptoe Through the Penfolds" | 5 March 1984 |
He creates a duplicate of Penfold to test it; however, the machine malfunctions and leaves him (and soon also leaves Danger Mouse) with hundreds of Penfolds to deal with. Meanwhile, with the real Penfold giving a reading for the Annual Conference of Cowards Anonymous at the 'Chicken Farm', Danger Mouse is left to investigate the case by himself. This episode was written by Brian Trueman, story by Keith Scoble and directed by Brian Cosgrove. This episode was Painted and Traced by Phil McMylor, Bob Burrows, Monica McCartney, Lorraine Thomas, Andy Wilson and Beverly Phillips. This episode featured the Backgrounds Painted by Diane Wren. This episode was Photographed by Frank Hardie, Wendy Hardie and Peter Kidd. This episode was Edited by Nigel Rutter, Nibs Senior and Stephen Perry. | |||
107 | 4 | "Project Moon" | 12 March 1984 |
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108 | 5 | "The Next Ice Age Begins at Midnight!" | 19 March 1984 |
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109 | 6 | "The Aliens Are Coming!" | 26 March 1984 |
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110 | 7 | "Remote-Controlled Chaos" | 2 April 1984 |
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111 | 8 | "The Man from Gadget" | 9 April 1984 |
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112 | 9 | "Tampering with Time Tickles" | 16 April 1984 |
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113 | 10 | "Nero Power" | 30 April 1984 |
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Series 6 (1984-1985)
Series 6 episodes are 10 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. 19 of the episodes (Once Upon A Timeslip and 18 other episodes) show the copyright year as 1984, although for eight episodes ("Viva Danger Mouse", "Hear! Hear!", "Multiplication Fable", "The Spy Who Stayed in With a Cold", "Alping is Snow Easy Matter", "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing", "Ee-Tea!" and "Tut, Tut, it's Not Pharaoh!") the year is shown as 1983. Series 6 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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114 | 1 | "Once Upon a Time Slip" | 24 December 1984 |
They'll now have to act out a twisted version of Robin Hood. Starring Danger Mouse as Robin Hood, Penfold as Little John and Greenback as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Originally aired in a double-bill with a repeat of Long Lost Crown Affair. This episode was Written by Brian Trueman, Story by Keith Scoble and Directed by Brian Cosgrove. This episode was Painted and Traced by Beverly Phillips, Lorraine Thomas, Judy Ringrose, Joan Storey, Simon White and Yasodha Huckerby. This episode featured the Backgrounds Painted by Andy Roper and Malcolm Turner. This episode was Photographed by Frank Hardie, Wendy Hardie, Peter Kidd and Phil Atack. This episode was Edited by Nigel Rutter, Nibs Senior and Stephen Perry. | |||
115 | 2 | "Viva Danger Mouse" | 3 January 1985 |
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116 | 3 | "Play it Again, Wufgang!" | 10 January 1985 |
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117 | 4 | "Hear! Hear!" | 17 January 1985 |
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118 | 5 | "Multiplication Fable" | 24 January 1985 |
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119 | 6 | "The Spy Who Stayed in With a Cold" | 31 January 1985 |
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120 | 7 | "It's all White, White Wonder!" | 7 February 1985 |
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121 | 8 | "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma" | 14 February 1985 |
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122 | 9 | "What a Three-Point Turn-Up for the Book!" | 21 February 1985 |
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123 | 10 | "Quark! Quark!" | 28 February 1985 |
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124 | 11 | "Alping is Snow Easy Matter" | 7 March 1985 |
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125 | 12 | "Aaargh!, Spiders!" | 14 March 1985 |
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126 | 13 | "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing" | 21 March 1985 |
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127 | 14 | "Afternoon Off with the Fangboner" | 28 March 1985 |
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128 | 15 | "Beware of Mexicans Delivering Milk" | 4 April 1985 |
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129 | 16 | "Cat-astrophe" | 11 April 1985 |
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130 | 17 | "The Good, the Bad and the Motionless" | 18 April 1985 |
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131 | 18 | "Statues" | 25 April 1985 |
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132 | 19 | "The Clock Strikes Back!" | 2 May 1985 |
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133 | 20 | "Ee-Tea!" | 9 May 1985 |
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134 | 21 | "Bandits, Beans and Ballyhoo!" | 23 May 1985 |
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135 | 22 | "Have you Fled from Any Good Books Lately?" | 30 May 1985 |
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136 | 23 | "Tut, Tut, it's Not Pharaoh!" | 6 June 1985 |
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137 | 24 | "Lost, Found and Spellbound" | 13 June 1985 |
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138 | 25 | "Penfold, B.F." | 20 June 1985 |
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139 | 26 | "Mechanized Mayhem" | 27 June 1985 |
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140 | 27 | "Journey to the Earth's... 'Cor!" | 26 December 1985 |
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Series 7 (1986)
Series 7 episodes are 25 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. This series was directed by Chris Randall.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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141 | 1 | "Danger Mouse on the Orient Express" | 13 November 1986 |
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142 | 2 | "The Ultra Secret Secret" | 20 November 1986 |
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143 | 3 | "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat!" | 27 November 1986 |
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144 | 4 | "Where, There's a Well, There's a Way!" | 4 December 1986 |
However, Copper-Conk Cassidy is on his tail, after eavesdropping the information given from Colonel K, with desires of using the well to rule the world. | |||
145 | 5 | "All Fall Down" | 11 December 1986 |
The device's blueprint is revealed to be stolen by the snake villain, Mac the Fork, who teams up with his friend, the owl chemist Dudley Poyson, who is capable of inventing the device. | |||
146 | 6 | "Turn of the Tide" | 18 December 1986 |
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Series 8 (1987)
Series 8 episodes were 10 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. This series was the shortest-lived with just two episodes. Some sources such as the book 'The Guinness Book of Classic British TV' by Paul Cornell et al. list these episodes as theoretically belonging to the fifth or sixth series. It states that some episodes were often held back and not broadcast until years later as part of a repeats season. This would seem to be supported by the copyright information in the end credits, as both are dated 1983 (as per series 5 episodes and some Series 6 episodes). Series 8 was directed by Brian Cosgrove.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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147 | 1 | "Gremlin Alert" | 20 February 1987 |
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148 | 2 | "Cor! What a Picture!" | 27 February 1987 |
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Series 9 (1991)
Series 9 episodes were 22 minutes each. The show's appearance changed noticeably with this series, now brighter and with altered artwork - most notably to Danger Mouse himself. Series 9 & 10 were directed by Keith Scoble.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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149 | 1 | "I Spy with my Little Eye..." | 3 January 1991 |
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150 | 2 | "Bigfoot Falls" | 10 January 1991 |
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. | |||
151 | 3 | "The Statue of Liberty Caper" | 17 January 1991 |
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152 | 4 | "Penfold Transformed!" | 24 January 1991 |
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153 | 5 | "A Dune with a View" | 31 January 1991 |
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154 | 6 | "Don Coyote and Sancho Penfold" | 7 February 1991 |
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Series 10 (1992)
Series 10 episodes were 22 minutes each, and originally aired with no commercial breaks. The book 'The Guinness Book of Classic British TV' by Paul Cornell et al. lists these episodes as a continuation of the ninth series. This was the final series of the show's original run.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Original airdate |
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155 | 1 | "Crumhorn Strikes Back!" | 6 February 1992 |
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156 | 2 | "Ants, Trees and...Whoops-a-Daisy!" | 13 February 1992 |
Penfold is captured -the tribe thinking his eyebrows are "magic caterpillars"- and things look grim, but then, Penfold's Aunt arrives from a taxi and tells them all to stop playing silly games. | |||
157 | 3 | "There's a Penfold in my Suit!" | 20 February 1992 |
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. | |||
158 | 4 | "Rhyme and Punishment" | 27 February 1992 |
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159 | 5 | "Pillow Fright!" | 5 March 1992 |
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160 | 6 | "Heavy Duty" | 12 March 1992 |
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161 | 7 | "The Intergalactic 147" | 19 March 1992 |
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Revival
In June 2014 it was announced that a new series was being made for broadcast on CBBC in 2015.[1]
Notes
- All the 103 episodes in the first 4 series of were all dated as 1980
- All the 10 episodes in series 5 of were all dated as 1983
- For the syndicated market, notably for Nickelodeon, all the 113 episodes in the first 5 series were all dated as 1984
- All the 6 episodes of in series 7 were all dated as 1985
- All the 6 episodes of Series 9 and the 7 episodes in Series 10 of were all dated as 1990
- At the end of the 7th, 9th & 10th series the copyright under the DM logo has changed to COSGROVE HALL PRODUCTIONS instead of the usual 'A Cosgrove/Hall Production' logo with a copyright under that caption.
References
- ↑ "Danger Mouse to return to TV screens". BBC News. Retrieved 17 June 2014.