Bananaman (TV series)

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Bananaman
BananaMan Introduction Shot.JPG
Title card
GenreSuperhero
Comedy
Created bySteve Bright
Starring
Theme music composerDave Cooke
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes40[1]
Production
ProducerTrevor Bond
Running time5 minutes
Original release
Network
Release3 October 1983 (1983-10-03) –
4 March 1986 (1986-15-04) (reruns 1989–1999)

"Bananaman" is a British animated comedy series which ran from 1983 to 1986. It was based on the comic strip character Bananaman and each of the show's roughly five-minute episodes featured the voices of The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie).[2][3]

Parts of the character were changed for the series: he was now called Eric Twinge (rather than Eric Wimp), had a distinctive banana-shaped hairstyle rather than punk stubble, and had a love interest (only when transformed) in the form of Fiona, a newsreader.[4][5]

"This is 29 Acacia Road. And this is Eric, the schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is Bananaman, ever alert for the call to action!"

- opening narration.

Cast

Written by Bernie Kay. Produced by Trevor Bond. Directed by Terry Ward.

Reception

Bananaman was a popular cartoon and is one of the most well known British Superheroes. Taken from the D.C.Thomson comic entitled, NUTTY. It was made into a TV animated series of 40 x 5 minute episodes by Terry Ward of Flicks Films Ltd.[6]

References

  1. ^ Rosser, Michael; Wiseman2014-03-18T19:13:00+00:00, reas. "'Live action' Bananaman planned". Screen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Rosser, Michael. "'Live action' Bananaman planned | News | Screen". Screendaily.com. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  3. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-1-4766-6599-3.
  4. ^ Rowney, Jo-Anne (27 October 2017). "Bananaman is back - the Man-of-Peel returns in live action debut". mirror. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  5. ^ Kamen, Matt (13 January 2016). "Bananaman: The Musical heading to theatres. Yes, really". Wired UK. Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via www.wired.co.uk.
  6. ^ Murray, Chris (15 March 2017). The British Superhero. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0740-3. Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via Google Books.

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