Ex-Motormouth presenter Andy Crane, Blue Peter gal Yvette Fielding and the hirsute Capital Radio presenter Pat Sharp presented this ITV Saturday morning magazine-format show for kids, which mixed Warner Bros. cartoons with sketches, competitions, puppet characters, slapstick, and contemporary musical acts live in the studio.
Regular characters included Baljit (a ball of fur operated and voiced by Tim Rose); Gaston the Frog; child-eating wolves Bro and Bro (voiced by John Ecclestone and Don Austen), who eventually even got their own spin-off show, Wolf It; Sam Sam (a hairdresser with a pumpkin for a head); Mr Spanky (who wore waistcoats made of beef, carried a small tortoise called Naughty Torty, and judged whether the studio audience had been misbehaving); Cassie, a 3000-year-old woman; and anorak-wearing trainspotter and cheese ranger Simon Perry (played by Stephen Taylor Woodrow) with his creepy mate Colin.
The format changed in the second series, with many of the darker elements removed for fear that Warner Bros would pull out of the show. Yvette Fielding also disappeared without explanation during the final series and was replaced for the last few weeks by Jenny Powell.
Presenters
Andy Crane
Pat Sharp
Yvette Fielding
Jenny Powell
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Regular characters included Baljit (a ball of fur operated and voiced by Tim Rose); Gaston the Frog; child-eating wolves Bro and Bro (voiced by John Ecclestone and Don Austen), who eventually even got their own spin-off show, Wolf It; Sam Sam (a hairdresser with a pumpkin for a head); Mr Spanky (who wore waistcoats made of beef, carried a small tortoise called Naughty Torty, and judged whether the studio audience had been misbehaving); Cassie, a 3000-year-old woman; and anorak-wearing trainspotter and cheese ranger Simon Perry (played by Stephen Taylor Woodrow) with his creepy mate Colin.
Guests included David Hasselhoff, Graham Parker, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, ZZ Top, Natalie Imbruglia, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Pamela Anderson, Barbara Windsor, MC Hammer, Craig Charles, Bill Maynard, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Hothouse Flowers, Deacon Blue, Sister Sledge, Shaggy, Kevin Keegan, Boney M, Level 42, The Proclaimers, Tori Amos, Bananarama, Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Nail, The Beautiful South, Erasure, Robin Williams, Human League, The Lightning Seeds, Right Said Fred, Dannii Minogue, Boyzone, Gary Glitter, and Take That.
