Bananaman

Synopsis

Bananaman is a British animated comedy series which ran from 3 October 1983 to 15 June 1988. It was based on the comic strip character Bananaman from the DC Thomson comic Nutty, and directed and produced by Terry Ward and Trevor Bond at 101 Productions. The show ran for 40 five-minute episodes, each of which featured the voices of The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie) and Jill Shilling. The soundtrack was composed by Dave Cooke. Parts of the character Eric Wimp were changed for the series: he was now called Eric Twinge, had a distinctive banana-shaped hairstyle rather than being bald (like he was in the first few years in the comic), and had a love interest (only when transformed) in the form of Fiona, a newsreader, based on Selina Scott. When Danger Mouse first aired on Nickelodeon in America, Bananaman was shown after it to round out the show to a half hour.

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Details

Type

TV series

Release date

October 3, 1983

Runtime

5 min

Seasons

3

Episodes

40

Countries

United Kingdom