The Flying Machine

The Raggy Dolls are out in the field thinking of the game they play. Lucy suggests that they will play cricket. Dotty and Sad Sack argues who's will be bowling and suddenly comes out of nowhere the model plane. The Raggy Dolls watchs in horror as the plane crash lands and the gang prepares to fix it. When they try to test the plane, the gang were flying. When they land on solid ground, The boy named Jeffrey was overjoyed to see his model plane. Sad Sack agrees that he is going to be a pilot one day but Dotty didn't care.

Dotty, Back-To-Front, Lucy, Hi-Fi, Princess, Claude, Sad Sack

Originally planned to be a low-budget show consisting of camera movement over still illustrations by Steve Smallman to stories written by Melvyn Jacobson and read by Neil Innes, directed by John Marsden, and produced by Joy Whitby. Roy Evans was commissioned to provide animated titles, front and end, to the theme tune composed and performed by Innes: these were used for all the subsequent series.

YTV liked the titles so much they decided to increase the budget just enough to pay for a limited animation series. Roy Evans managed to emulate Steve Smallman's original marker-pen artwork very closely, using markers to top-cel some colour areas on the traditionally-painted cels, and a thick, slightly broken trace line

Melvyn Jacobson wrote the original stories (maybe 4) but subsequent stories were written by the narrator, Neil Innes, initially with editorial input by Joy Whitby.