The Return
- Studio
- Filmfair Animation, Martin Gates Productions
- Distributor
- Central Independent Television PLC, Independent Television
Synopsis
"Once more we travel to the Land of Nightmares to discover there, beneath the Black Mountain Of Illfeed, the loathsome Zordrak, Lord of Nightmares, hatching his monstrous plots to thwart the Dreammaker so that nightmares might rule!..."
Characters
Rufus, Amberley, Zordrak, Pildit, Dreammaker, Sergeant Blob, Frizz, Nug, Urpgor, Jackie Clarke (Wildit)
Credits
Producing
- Producer
- Martin Gates
- Executive Producers
- Bengt Odner, David Yates
- Associate Producer
- James Costello
Writing
- Writer
- Martin Gates, Jimmy Costello
- Dialogue
- Sue Radley
- Story
- Michael Jupp
Animation
- Animator
- Dino Athanassiou, Chris Fenna, Laurent Grisel, Willard Kitchen, Les Orton, Richard Villeneuve, Gary Hearst, Alain Mandron, Lloyd Sutton (Key Animators)
- Animation Director
- Phil Robinson
Voices
- Voice
- Stuart Lock (Rufus), Nancy Hendry (Amberley), Gary Martin (Zordrak), Derek Wright (Pildit), John Franklyn-Robbins (Dreammaker), Richard Tate (Sergeant Blob), Melvyn Hayes (Frizz), Anthony Jackson (Nug), Leonard Whiting (Urpgor), Jackie Clarke (Wildit), Peter Graze (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Mike Batt
Crew
- Art Director
- Mike Jupp
- Character Creation
- Mike Jupp
- Key Backgrounds
- Mike Jupp
- Design
- Mike Jupp
- Layout Director
- John Stevenson
- Color Models
- Carol A. Hughes
- Paint Supervisor
- Stella Reyes
- Storyboard
- Gordon Harrison, John Stevenson, Harold Whitaker, Vince James, Wayne Thomas, Marty Martin, Milt Schaeffer
- Voice Director
- Martin Gates
- Music
- Mike Batt
- "Better Than a Dream" sung by
- Mike Batt
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Dave Humphries
Companies and other credits
- Performed by: The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Production notes
One of the first half-hour animated adventure series produced in Britain.
Composer Mike Batt created a matching concept album of songs inspired by the stories. These were sung by celebrities and stars ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Frank Bruno.
Composer Mike Batt created a matching concept album of songs inspired by the stories. These were sung by celebrities and stars ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Frank Bruno.