Bodger and Badger

Bodger and Badger

1989
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
📺 9 Seasons
🎬 120 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 15 min/episode
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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.

Seasons

Season 1
1989 • 8 Episodes
Simon Bodger must win a cookery contest to get the Chef's job at Troff's Nosherama.
Season 2
1991 • 12 Episodes
Job-hunting leads Simon to Lesby Avenue junior school. Will he get the job as handyman?
Season 3
1991 • 12 Episodes
Season 4
1993 • 9 Episodes
Bodger starts a new job as handyman in a large amusement park, where no pets are allowed. But Badger is determined to join Simon, 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.
Season 5
1995 • 13 Episodes
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.
Season 6
1996 • 12 Episodes
Simon Bodger and Badger come face to face with their new landlady, the fearsome Mrs. Dribelle.
Season 7
TBA • 25 Episodes
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.
Season 8
1997 • 15 Episodes
Bodger, Badger and Mousey are moving to the seaside to run the Seagull's Rest Hotel. But they get a big surprise when they find out who their new neighbour is.
Season 9
1998 • 14 Episodes
Bodger and Badger meet the new tourist information officer, Mrs S. Melly.

Crew

Director
Claire Winyard
Writer
Andy Cunningham, Jane Bassett, Pierre Hollins
Producer
Greg Childs, Judy Whitfield

Network

BBC One

Production

BBC

Keywords

puppetventriloquism