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The Poddington Peas

6.3 / 10

1989

1 season

13 episodes

Animation

The Poddington Peas is an animated British children's television series made by Paul Needs and Colin Wyatt; the single series has 13 episodes and was first aired on the BBC in 1989. The theme song describes the peas as being "down at the bottom of the garden". Human size garden objects, giant in size to them, are seen such as up turned flower pots serving as most of their buildings. Humans themselves are never seen or mentioned. In 1992, writer Phil Gardner was employed by Poddington plc to help write some new episodes - including one intended to pilot the series in the USA, and featuring a new group of characters, the Bugz. however these were never published. There were also paper back books by Paul Needs, illustrated by Colin Wyatt and published by Box Tree / Award Publications. The paper back books including new titles will be released with a new AP and merchandise to complement these titles is being prepared for release in 2013.

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Neil Pearson

Seasons

Ep 1
1.The Vegetable Show
14-09-198910m
Poddington is holding its annual vegtable show and everyone enters, everyone apart from Creep-Pea and Black Eyed-Pea who have forgot to grow anything. But before the show starts th...
Ep 2
2.Creep-Pea Gets Carried Away
21-09-198910m
The troublesome Creep-Pea and Black Eyed Pea steal a boat from Captain Hop-Pea and sail it out into the middle of the sea. When P.C Pod arrives to investigate the crime he tells Ca...
Ep 3
3.Dump-Pea's Diet
28-09-198910m
Dump-Pea visits Tea-Pea's tea shop and eats so much food he can't fit out of the door. Tea-Pea decides to leave him there overnight in the hope that Dump-Pea can lose some weight b...
Ep 4
4.Mound of Trouble
05-10-198910m
Snoppy-Pea investigates several houses in Poddington that have suddenly risen into the air, only to find that a mole maybe the culprit.
Ep 5
5.Hip-Pea's Band
12-10-198910m
Hip-Pea decides to put on a music event at Poddington Dance Hall, but the band members encounter numerous problems which mean they may not be able to perform.
Ep 6
6.Well Done Dump-Pea
19-10-198910m
The pea's find a birds egg in their garden, and decide to look after it until the mother returns.
Ep 7
7.Zip-Pea Saves the Day
26-10-198910m
Sweat-Pea and Hap-Pea are on the way to the chip shop to get Pop-Pea some food but they get distracted by Hip-Pea's music. Luckily Zip-Pea offers to help them out, but even the sup...
Ep 8
8.Poddle Island Mystery
09-11-198910m
Ep 9
9.Dough-Pea Gets Lost
16-11-198910m
Ep 10
10.Zip-Pea's Shadow
23-11-198910m
Zip-Pea, the fastest pea in Poddington, notices his shadow is missing. After asking some of the other peas if they have seen it, G-Pea tells him that he may know something about hi...
Ep 11
11.Bubble Trouble
30-11-198910m
Hap-Pea and Soap-Pea decide to borrow a boat and sail it to Poddle Island. Whilst there Black Eyed-Pea and Creep-Pea steal the boat and return it to Poddington. With the boat retur...
Ep 12
12.The Balloonatics
30-11-198910m
Ep 13
13.Creep-Pea's Christmas Surprise
07-12-198910m
It's Christmas eve in Poddington and all of the Pea's are excited. Cree-Pea is visited by Santa and asked if he can deliver everyone's presents as Santa is Busy, Creep-Pea agrees b...

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