The Funfair

The man named Toby Martin comes to the factory and takes the gang to the Fun Fair. He takes them out of his van and Lucy starts to tremble. Back-To-Fornt has a plan, People throws balls and Toby collects money. Back-To-Fornt pulls a nails from the coconut, the crowd were very angry and the Boss of the funfair named Mr. Sellers sees what had happened and kicks Toby Martin out. The Raggy Dolls rushes out of funfair and puts Sad Sack together again.

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.