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September 16, 2003 TV Episode Little Robots

Studio
Create TV & Film Limited

Synopsis

The Sparkies, Spotty and Scary all need help from Tiny. He sorts out their problems- but not one of them remembers to say thank you. Tiny decides he's going to snooze and let them get on with it. Then Spotty gets the Clean Machine stuck in reverse and causes chaos but Tiny tells her he's too busy to help. But he does help Flappy and she "thanks" him loudly. Scary works out that Tiny doesn't mind doing anything for any of them but he does like a thank you!

Characters

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

Credits

Writing

Writer
Jimmy Hibbert

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.