Bump

Synopsis

Bump the Baby Elephant is a British animated children's television series which was created by Charles Mills and Terry Brain (who had previously created The Trap Door and Stoppit and Tidyup), produced by Bump Enterprises Ltd. and originally shown on BBC One from 14 September 1990 to 26 December 1994. The series' two main protagonists are the eponymous Bump (a baby elephant who is very clumsy, a trait that emphasised by a bandage on his forehead) and his friend Birdie (a bluebird who often gives Bump advice on how he can become more graceful). The two series ran a total of twenty-six episodes, each 5 minutes long. The twenty-seventh and final episode was a Christmas special that was 10 minutes long. The programme is narrated by Simon Cadell. Bump and Birdie regularly encounter animals that have a problem (such as Whizzer the mouse, Munch the tortoise, McDuff the dog, Big Bun and Little Bun the rabbits and Batty the bat) and help them to find a solution. Most of these animals are recurring characters, and all of the characters' Stoppit and Tidyup-like sounds were generated by analogue synthesizers.

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Details

Type

TV series

Release date

September 14, 1990

Genres

children's television series

Seasons

2

Episodes

27

Countries

United Kingdom