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The Wind Machine

August 12, 2003 TV Episode Little Robots

Studio
Create TV & Film Limited

Synopsis

Scary wishes the bunting he's put up would flutter so Tiny offers to build him a wind machine. Scary can't keep his fingers off the buttons and the wind machine goes beserk, blowing him into the Nut and Bolt tree. Tiny has to work out how to stop the wind machine and he- literally- rises to the occasion and proves himself a hero.

Characters

Noisy, Sporty, Spotty, Stretchy, Sparky Twins, Scary, Stripy, Tiny, Messy, Rusty

Credits

Writing

Writer
James Mason

Voices

Voice
Su Pollard (Noisy), Lenny Henry (Sporty), Jimmy Hibbert (Stretchy), Martin Clunes (Stripy), Hayley Carmichael (Tiny), Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Darren Boyd, Emma Chambers

Production notes

Combined stop-action animation and computer-generated animation.

Puppets were created by the British team of Mackinnon & Saunders.

This TV series ran from January to December 2003.

Based on the book by Mike Brownlow, published by Ragged Bears Publishing.