From Here to Timbuctoo

Happy New Year, everyone! Here's to many new, exciting things to come in 2012 for all of us =)

In honour of Ronnie Corbett (one half of the memorable Two Ronnies) receiving his New Year's Honour, here's another notable star on his comedy career, of the animated sort.

 

Following his remarkable success with the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, Roger Hargreaves also wrote another little series called Timbuctoo in the late '70's. The books tell the stories of a group of animals, each who are named after the sound they make. Such as with Woof (a sort of Dog), Buzz (a sort of Bee), Squeak (a sort of Mouse), and so on.

The books were later reprinted in the 90's when an animated series was created by Flicks Films, who also worked on all the animated Mr. Men animated shows of the 70's and 80's respectively (although Terry Ward did have a hand to play with the 90's series by Marina Productions) as well as Bananaman in the 80's - with scripts by renowned writer Richard Everett (Busy Buses, Nellie the Elephant), all in the same, remeniscent style of Mr. Hargreaves himself.

With narration and voices provided by Ronnie, check out an episode below, as well as other links relating to the series:

Toonhound's Timbuctoo Page

More Timbuctoo on Richard Everett's official page!