The Poddington Peas

3 Episodes of The Poddington Peas on video. Episodes: "Dough-Pea gets lost" - "Well done Dump-Pea" and "Creep-Pea gets carried away"
The Poddington Peas characters

The Poddington Peas is an animated British children's television series made by Paul Needs and Colin Wyatt; the single series has 13 episodes and was first aired on the BBC in 1989.

The theme song describes the peas as being "down at the bottom of the garden". Human size garden objects, giant in size to them, are seen such as up turned flower pots serving as most of their buildings. Humans themselves are never seen or mentioned.

In 1992, writer Phil Gardner was employed by Poddington plc to help write some new episodes - including one intended to pilot the series in the USA, and featuring a new group of characters, the Bugz. however these were never published.

There were also paper back books by Paul Needs, illustrated by Colin Wyatt and published by Box Tree / Award Publications. The paper back books including new titles was released with a new AP and merchandise to complement these titles were released in 2013.

Characters

The cartoon features a cast of anthropomorphic peas, most of their names describe the character's job or their main trait similar to the Mr. Men, and are plays on words typically "pea" sounding like "-py" such as "Creep-Pea" sounding like "Creepy".

The Poddington Peas include:

(Most of the peas are male. Below, the females are stated, the others are male.)

Episode list

Episode title and original air date:

  1. The Vegetable Show (14 September 1989)
  2. Creep-Pea Gets Carried Away (21 September 1989)
  3. Dump-Pea's Diet (28 September 1989)
  4. Mound of Trouble (5 October 1989)
  5. Hip-Pea's Band (12 October 1989)
  6. Well Done Dump-Pea (19 October 1989)
  7. Zip-Pea Saves the Day (26 October 1989)
  8. The Balloonatics (2 November 1989)
  9. Poddle Island Mystery (9 November 1989)
  10. Dough-Pea Gets Lost (16 November 1989)
  11. Zip-Pea's Shadow (23 November 1989)
  12. Bubble Trouble (30 November 1989)
  13. Creep-Pea's Christmas Surprise (7 December 1989)

Credits

See also

Podington, a village in Bedfordshire, England.

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