Moschops (TV series)
| Moschops | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Knobbel |
| Genre | Children's television |
| Written by | Ruth Boswell Gregory Stewart |
| Directed by | Martin Pullen |
| Voices of | Bernard Cribbins |
| Narrated by | Bernard Cribbins |
| Composer | Daryl Runswick |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Graham Clutterbuck |
| Producer | Ruth Boswell |
| Editor | Robert Dunbar |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production company | FilmFair |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 5 July (1983年07月05日) – 27 September 1983 (1983年09月27日)[1] |
Moschops is a British stop motion-animated children's television series produced by FilmFair, and broadcast on ITV in 1983.[2]
The characters in Moschops are designed by Sue Marke. All of the cast are prehistoric animals, except for Flower, who is the world's first flower.
The characters' names imply their species or genus. The title character, Moschops, is a young therapsid of the genus Moschops ; Ally is a theropod of the genus Allosaurus ; Grandfather Diplodocus is a sauropod of the genus Diplodocus ; Mrs. Kerry is a ceratopsid of the genus Triceratops ; Uncle Rex is a Tyrannosaurus rex ; and Mr. Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur of the genus Ichthyosaurus .
In the series, Moschops and Ally are friends. They live in a cave with Grandfather Diplodocus and Uncle Rex.
From 1984 to 1985, Omroepvereniging VARA, the Dutch public broadcasting network, broadcast a Dutch-dubbed version titled Knobbel. Channel 4 retransmitted Moschops in 1988. The series was also broadcast in Canada on the Knowledge Network & TVOntario and New Zealand on Channel 2.
Episode list
[edit ]| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Moschops and The First Flower" | 5 July 1983 (1983年07月05日) |
| 02 | "All's Well That Ends Well" | 12 July 1983 (1983年07月12日) |
| 03 | "Night-time Sun" | 19 July 1983 (1983年07月19日) |
| 04 | "Fiercest Dinosaur" | 26 July 1983 (1983年07月26日) |
| 05 | "Tidiest Dinosaur" | 2 August 1983 (1983年08月02日) |
| 06 | "Ally Takes to the Air" | 9 August 1983 (1983年08月09日) |
| 07 | "Wheels Within Wheels" | 16 August 1983 (1983年08月16日) |
| 08 | "Moschops's Garden" | 23 August 1983 (1983年08月23日) |
| 09 | "Moschops's Party" | 30 August 1983 (1983年08月30日) |
| 10 | "Just Like Me" | 6 September 1983 (1983年09月06日) |
| 11 | "No Place Like Home" | 15 September 1983 (1983年09月15日) |
| 12 | "Moschops's Tent" | 20 September 1983 (1983年09月20日) |
| 13 | "Rainbow" | 27 September 1983 (1983年09月27日) |
Video releases
[edit ]| Video title | Medium | Release date | Distributor | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moschops | VHS (PAL) |
? | Castle Vision | 1–4 |
| Adventures in Dinosaurland | VHS (NTSC) |
5 May 1993 (1993年5月5日) | Family Home Entertainment | 2–5 |
| Moschops | DVD-Video (Region 2) |
12 July 2004 (2004年7月12日) | E1 Entertainment | 1–3 |
| Moschops: The First Flower | DVD-Video (Region 2) |
27 March 2006 (2006年3月27日) | Abbey Home Media | 1–5 |
| Moschops: Ally Takes to the Air | DVD-Video (Region 2) |
12 March 2007 (2007年3月12日) | Abbey Home Media | 6–10 |
Moschops in print
[edit ]For a short time after the series aired, Pippin featured a Moschops comic strip.
Purnell Publishers of Bristol published eight small picture books based on the television programme: Moschops and the Fierceness Lesson (1983), Moschops and the Mystery (1983), Moschops and the Surprise (1983), Moschops Digs a Hole (1983), Moschops and the Sneezes (1983), Moschops Plays Football (1983), Moschops' Kite (1984), and Moschops' Birthday (1984).
Other Moschops books include Moschops Annual (1983), Moschops Playtime Book (1983), and Moschops Dot-to-Dot (1984).
Notes
[edit ]- ^ "Moschops". BFI Film & TV Database . British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ "Toonhound - Moschops (1983)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
References
[edit ]- "Moschops". Curious British Telly. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
External links
[edit ]- Official website
- Moschops at Jedi's Paradise. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- 1983 British television series debuts
- 1983 British television series endings
- 1980s British children's television series
- British children's animated television shows
- ITV children's television shows
- British English-language television shows
- British stop-motion animated television series
- Television series by FilmFair
- Television series by WildBrain
- 1980s British animated television series
- ITV animated television series
- Animated television series about dinosaurs