The Amazing Adventures of Morph facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Amazing Adventures of Morph |
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| Genre | Animation Family Comedy Science fiction |
| Created by | Aardman Animations |
| Directed by | Peter Lord David Sproxton |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Tony Hart |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Patrick Dowling |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Aardman Animations |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC |
| Original release | October 13, 1980 – May 18, 1981 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The Morph Files (1995) |
| Related shows | spun off from Take Hart (1977) |
The Amazing Adventures of Morph is a British stop-motion clay animation television show created by Aardman Animations which ran from 1980 to 1981. It featured the character Morph and his cream-coloured best friend Chas.
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Production
The character of Morph first appeared on the children's art-themed TV show Take Hart with Tony Hart in 1977. This series served as a spin-off to Take Hart and a showcase for Morph. The character had become so popular that the BBC commissioned 26 5-min episodes featuring the character.
Characters
As well as Morph and his cream-coloured best friend Chas from previous appearances, the show incorporated various additional characters; Folly (a female tinfoil figure), Gillespie (large, blue and dim-witted), GrandMorph (an elderly grey-bearded version of Morph with a skateboard and a knack for inventing things), Delilah (a blonde female in a yellow dress and glasses who serves as a straight character) Nailbrush (a nailbrush dog), Gobbledygook (a green alien) and The Very Small Creatures. Early versions of Folly and Gillespie had previously made a brief appearance in Take Hart.
Cast
- Tony Hart as Narrator (voice)
- Morph as himself
- Chas as himself
- Nailbrush as himself
- Grandmorph as himself
- Delilah as herself
- Gillespie as himself
- Folly as herself
- Gobbledygook as himself
- The Very Small Creatures as themselves
- The Paint Pots as themselves
- Luxo the Lamp as itself
Episodes
- The Beginning
- The Day Nothing Happened
- Play Golf
- Morph takes a Ditch
- The Day Morph Was Ill
- Morph's Forgotten Dream
- Morph the Weakling
- Chalk the Dog
- The Two Mountaineers
- The Double Decker Boot
- Butch Morph and the Chas Kid
- The Day Morph Went Skiing
- The Abominable Snowman
- The Invisible Morph
- Where's Cricket?
- A Swimming Pool in the Garden
- The Strange Visitor
- A Game of Chess
- The Very Small Creature, Green
- GrandMorph's Beard
- The Babysitters
- Morph Sticks With It
- Gobbledygook the Burglar
- GrandMorph's Home Movies
- Morph and the Swoggle Flange
- The Magic Wand
Online re-release
From 20 March to 2 October 2015, HD restored versions of all 26 episodes of the series had appeared on YouTube.
