# UK childrens show UK posters please help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 31, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550 "2000-07-31T15:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/1 "2000-07-31T15:15:55Z")
I remember a show from when I was little, can you help me name it? The program featured a family of creatures that looked like furry potatoes. I think there were 2 children, and the Granddad played the trumpet. I was watching it between '75-'80. My family says I’m thinking of The Wombles, but I know that isn’t it. I have little ones of my own now and I’m putting together a collection of the programs I watched when I was little. Bagpuss was my favorite (he was just a saggy old cloth cat, but Emily loved him.) I have The Magic Roundabout, The Clangers, & Ivor the Engine so far. I’m trying to find Roobarb & Custard. I would also like suggestions of ones I’m missing. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/2 "2000-07-31T15:21:07Z")
Flumps? ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/3 "2000-07-31T15:21:28Z")
Sounds to me like [The Flumps](http://www.toonarific.com/f/Flumps-pics.html). Bagpuss and the Clangers were two of my favourites as well. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/4 "2000-07-31T15:22:22Z")
Furry potatoes? Could it be _The Flumps_ you’re thinking of? Try [this site](http://www.sausagenet.co.uk/). It’s a British site with information and audio clips from classic shows. You might find it handy. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/5 "2000-07-31T15:25:47Z")
Fingerbobs has to be one of the best children’s programmes from that period as well. Conclusive proof of the widespread use of mind-altering substances among children’s TV makers during the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![mothra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mothra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothra)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/6 "2000-07-31T15:26:43Z")
‘The Complete Flumps’ is available on VHS (PAL only) or DVD (Region 2 only) from [http://www.amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk), as are all the other programs you mentioned (except Roobarb & Custard, which is released later this year). ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/7 "2000-07-31T15:35:37Z")
Yay! That has been bothering me for so long. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![mothra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mothra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mothra)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/8 "2000-07-31T15:36:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lunasea \* > **…and the Granddad played the trumpet.** NO! He played the FLUMPET, silly! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/9 "2000-08-01T03:43:19Z")
OK this seems like as good a place as any to ask this. Around 1988, there was a kids’ show in England that had a Muppet-type character who sat behind a news desk and he (this is pretty gross) had snot coming out of his nose and he would whip his head around to the side to say something or look at something and he would sling snot all over the place. My brother says his name was Gary Gnu but I don’t know. Can anyone help me at all with this?? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/10 "2000-08-01T08:34:04Z")
There was a puppet character called Gilbert that’s ringing a bell, but I can’t find any information on the show. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/11 "2000-08-01T12:49:20Z")
Evilbeth - your not thinking of Tizwaz are you ? Featured hand puppet cat (Cough the Cat) and dog (Spit the Dog) - as you can probably imagine from the names their chief party tricks. Large quantities of plegm were involved with both of them… ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/12 "2000-08-01T13:20:15Z")
Spit the Dog didn’t _actually_ spit, though: Bob Carolgees just made a sort of spitting sound. I think the character you’re thinking of was called Gilbert the Alien. He was on _Get Fresh_, the execrable Saturday morning children’s offering from the ITV network of the mid- to late-1980s. As I recall, he did produce some kind of artificial “snot”, which was almost as offensive as his sidekick, Gaz Top, who still turns up occasionally on piss-poor cable TV programmes under his real name of Gareth Somethingorother. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-childrens-show-uk-posters-please-help/27550/13 "2000-08-02T04:34:24Z")
TomH–you may be right! That sounds familiar! Thank you!