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Series and episodes
[edit]Series One (1989)
[edit]Series 1 featured Bodger and Badger working in Troff's Nosherama, a run-down café with pretensions to being a restaurant. While Bodger worked in the kitchens as a chef, both he and Badger made friends with the waitress, Mavis. Troff's Nosherama was run by Mr Troff who was very arrogant, tight-fisted and stubborn. Troff had no idea of Badger's presence until the end of the last episode in the series.
It was not known during production whether another series was to be recommissioned, hence the last episode of this series is titled "The Final Episode".
The closing titles of this series at first featured specially-shot clips of the cast (in character) then a specially-shot clip of Badger over the technical crew credits. This changed gradually through the series, slowly incorporating repeated clips of cast members (in character) from earlier in the episode, although these were occasionally interspersed with the specially-shot clips, with the latter gradually being phased out. The specially-shot clip of Badger over the technical crew credits remained, however.
All transmission data is taken from the BBC Genome project.
This series was repeated on 8 consecutive Tuesdays from 13 February to 3 April 1990 on BBC1 at 3:50 pm.
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Bodger is Chef" | 13 September 1989 4:05pm | |
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Simon Bodger must win a cookery contest to get the Chef's job at Troff's Nosherama. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Badgers Are Coming" | 20 September 1989 4:05pm | |
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Badger ends up inside a cake. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Health Inspector" | 27 September 1989 4:05pm | |
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The Health Inspector pays a visit to Troff's Nosherama where she thinks she's seeing badgers. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "Portrait of Hector" | 4 October 1989 4:05pm | |
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Mr Troff decides the Nosherama needs a new Welcome sign. Mr Troff thinks Mavis is the artist, but in fact it is Badger. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "Auntie Warnty" | 11 October 1989 4:05pm | |
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Mr Troff’s Australian aunt comes to visit the Nosherama. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Adrian Loud Warbler" | 18 October 1989 4:05pm | |
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Adrian Loud Warbler invites Mavis to lunch to discuss a singing job. Unfortunately he takes her to the Nosherama! | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Robot" | 25 October 1989 4:05pm | |
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Bodger is in danger of being replaced as chef at the Nosherama when a salesman shows Mr Troff a new 'Shove-a-Chef.' | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Final Episode" | 1 November 1989 4:05pm | |
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Bodger and Badger are left in charge of the Nosherama, but things do not quite go according to plan with a wedding cake for the wedding party of two mountaineers. Fortunately, Mavis and Badger have an idea when Bodger accidentally crushes the cake... | ||||
Series Two (1991)
[edit]Series 2 and 3 featured Bodger and Badger working at Letsby Avenue junior school; Simon worked as the caretaker, Badger made friends with the school children and crawled around the air vents - a method of transport he found most useful to keep hidden from the school's teaching staff. Letsby Avenue's headmistress in this series was the overweight and nasty Mrs Trout, there was also the friendly and ditsy deputy head Miss Moon.
This series was the first to be broadcast in NICAM stereo sound. It also had a copyright date of 1990.
All transmission data is taken from the BBC Genome project.
This series was first repeated on Mondays from 6 to 27 April 1992 except the bank holiday 20 April. It then switched to Thursdays on 30 April and 7 May 1992. It then began Monday and Thursday repeats from Monday 11th to Thursday 21 May 1992, before moving again to three consecutive Mondays 1 to 15 June 1992. All except the final episode were repeated on BBC1 at 3:50pm. The final episode was repeated on BBC2 in the same timeslot, owing to sports coverage on BBC1. This was the first time Bodger and Badger had been broadcast on BBC2.
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Letsby Avenue" | 9 January 1991 3:50pm | |
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Bodger applies for the handyman's job at Letsby Avenue Junior School, but will he get it? | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Abracabadger" | 16 January 1991 3:50pm | |
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Will magic be enough when Miss Moon sees Badger? Class Four come to the rescue. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Bare Mayor" | 23 January 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Trout announces that the mayor is coming to visit the school, but Badger gets the wrong end of the stick. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Skeleton" | 30 January 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Trout purchases a skeleton for the school, but at the expense of any school trips. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "Mr Woberts The Watcatcher" | 6 February 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Trout thinks the school has rats, so she calls in a ratcatcher. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Hairy Fairy" | 13 February 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Trout's birthday cake from the cake shop mysteriously disappears shortly after Badger opens it, so Simon makes a miniature mashed potato statue of the headmistress as a replacement. Miss Moon spots this and thinks the fairies have cast a spell on Mrs Trout. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Wonky Window" | 20 February 1991 3:50pm | |
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Bodger and Badger attempt to repair a wonky window in Mrs Trout's office, without much success. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Mr Crusher and the Ninja Zombies From Mars" | 27 February 1991 3:50pm | |
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Class Four are not impressed with Miss Moon's pixie prancing in PE class. However, they soon discover that the new PE teacher is a lot worse. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Burglar" | 6 March 1991 3:50pm | |
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Bodger and Badger mistake Mrs Trout for a burglar when she puts on a costume for the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball. But it is not long before a real burglar breaks in to steal the school trophies. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Snowflakes in Hawaii" | 13 March 1991 3:50pm | |
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It's Hawaiian Day at Letsby Avenue. But the fun day proves not to be, when Mrs Trout cancels the coal delivery. | ||||
| 11 | 11 | "Mavis and the Fingerpoppers" | 20 March 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mavis from Troff's Nosherama, who is now a pop star, comes to visit Simon at the school. Everyone is excited to have a pop star on the premises, even Mrs Trout. Mavis hypnotises Badger into singing "Old MacDonald Had A Farm". | ||||
| 12 | 12 | "School's Out" | 27 March 1991 3:50pm | |
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As the end of term approaches, Bodger and Badger reminisce about their year at Letsby Avenue. Note: This was the first episode to feature clips from previous episodes. | ||||
Series Three (1991)
[edit]Series 3 is still set in Letsby Avenue junior school, but Mrs Trout was fired halfway through the series and Miss Moon became the new temporary headmistress until Mrs Bogart (Mrs Trout's sister) took over as headmistress, when Mrs Trout became a school governor. Like the previous series, Badger's presence was knowledge to everyone in the school except the school teaching staff. From this series, the closing credits were edited down to contain only one verse of the theme song. This practice of edited down credits was to continue until the end of the series, with new surrounding graphics for series 9. The repeats of clips featuring characters for the actor credits continued, however, the specially-shot clip of Badger over the technical crew credits was gone, the number of credited technical crew roles having been dramatically reduced, so this portion of the end credits consisted entirely of random clips from earlier in the episode (in chronological order).
Transmission information is taken from the BBC Genome project.
The first ten episodes of this 12-episode series were repeated on consecutive Tuesdays from 6 April to 8 June 1993 at 4:05 pm on BBC1. The repeat run was not completed owing to shortening of the afternoon CBBC strand in subsequent weeks for Wimbledon and other various sporting events and there being no available slots in the weeks after those.
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Mr Valentino and the Rubber Bottom" | 1 October 1991 3:55pm | |
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Mr Valentino, the chairman of the school's Governors, has dinner with Mrs Trout who gets a rubber bottom. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "William Tell" | 8 October 1991 3:55pm | |
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Mrs Trout writes, directs and stars in the school play, "William Tell". But will everything be all right on the night? Not likely with Bodger and Badger about. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Head's Anniversary" | 15 October 1991 3:55pm | |
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Badger decides to enter Mrs Trout's poetry competition. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Golden Alarm Clock" | 22 October 1991 3:55pm | |
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Mr Valentino decides to award Miss Moon a golden alarm clock for not missing a day's school. Mrs Trout is not happy. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "The New Moon" | 29 October 1991 3:55pm | |
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Miss Moon gets a thump on the head and a new view of life. Badger shows her that mash potato is fun to play with. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Eamon and the New Headmistress" | 5 November 1991 3:55pm | |
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As Mrs Trout has been sent back to teacher training college to learn how to read, the new headmistress Mrs Bogart arrives. She brings along her loathsome nephew, Eamon, to replace Bodger as the school handyman, so Badger and the children try to scare him off. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Mashed Potato Gun" | 12 November 1991 3:50pm | |
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A new communication system is set up in the school and Badger makes a mashed potato gun. From this episode this series moved to 3:50pm on original transmission. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Difficult Test" | 19 November 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Bogart is determined to make Class 4 sit a difficult test. However, with so many interruptions (mostly from Bodger who is trying to have a fire drill), will it ever happen? | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Head's Twin Sister" | 26 November 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Bogart will stop at nothing to get hold of Bodger's competition winnings, even posing as her own hard-up identical twin sister! | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Baby" | 3 December 1991 3:50pm | |
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Miss Moon has agreed to look after her neighbour's baby for the day. Badger, Rocky and Vicky trick Mrs Bogart into eating laxative chocolate. | ||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Doubling Box" | 10 December 1991 3:50pm | |
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Mrs Bogart is charging for lost property and keeps stealing the children's possessions to top up on takings. Badger does what he can to stop her. | ||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Class Photo" | 17 December 1991 3:50pm | |
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Badger is having a bath because it's time for the class photograph. When the photographer is cancelled, Miss Moon asks Bodger to help out. | ||||
Series Four (1993)
[edit]Series 4 featured Bodger and Badger working at Chessington World of Adventures, a theme park in Surrey. Bodger was the caretaker there, and Badger made friends with a girl called Holly who frequently visited the theme park. Owing to her mother being a staff member there, Holly was free to visit whenever she liked. Bodger's boss was Mr Beasley, who was nasty and obsessed with rules. Beasley kept trying to catch Badger to try to get Bodger chucked out.
Series 4's episodes were cut down to 10 minutes, instead of 15. This is the least-remembered series of all. It is the hardest to obtain copies of. This series was repeated on Mondays and Tuesdays, with an occasional gap of one week, from March to June 1996, commencing the week following the end of the original transmission of series 6. The opening titles to this series and the remaining series were edited short, so that by this point, the full verse of the theme song is not heard in both opening and closing titles (instead concentrating on one verse each). The opening titles now only contain clips from episodes in the series, with no material specially shot for the opening titles. The practice of having clips from earlier in the episode of actors appearing in character over their credits in the closing credits sequence was gone, with random clips from the episode appearing in chronological order throughout the closing credits sequence. This would remain the normal fashion of episode credits for the series until the end (with a surrounding graphics change for series 9).
All transmission data is taken from the BBC Genome project.
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Arrival" | 13 September 1993 3:55pm | |
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Bodger starts a new job as handyman at the Chessington World of Adventures theme park, where no pets are allowed. But Badger is determined to join Bodger, and together the pair meet Holly who hangs about a lot in the park - for free - because her mum works in the kitchens. All seems well until Badger realises that he has not seen any mashed potato in the park. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Mr Beasley's Barrow" | 20 September 1993 3:55pm | |
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Mr Beasley tries to catch Badger, who is still at the theme park, but is confused as Bodger, Holly and Badger have great fun tricking him. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Tapirs" | 27 September 1993 3:55pm | |
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Badger makes friends with some unusual animals, the tapirs. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Elephant's Trunk" | 4 October 1993 4:00pm | |
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Bodger fixes the elephant's trunk and Badger tries to hit Mr Beasley with mashed potato. From this episode onwards this series moved to 4:00pm. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "A Hard Day's Knight" | 11 October 1993 4:00pm | |
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Bodger dresses up as a knight, while Badger tries his paw at flying and Holly rescues him. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "The New Clothes" | 18 October 1993 4:00pm | |
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Mr Beasley is issued with a new uniform, but Bodger manages to ruin most of it with the help of Badger and some mashed potato. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Dragon" | 25 October 1993 4:00pm | |
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Holly wins a watch at Bodger and Badger's unconventional ball tossing stall, but Mr Beasley takes it from her. Badger thinks of a novel way of getting it back. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Wet Paint" | 1 November 1993 4:00pm | |
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Mr Beasley sits on a painted bench and tries to reprimand Bodger for not following orders. Instead, Head Office allow Bodger to run the ice-cream cart. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "Catapult" | 8 November 1993 4:00pm | |
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Mr Beasley has finally mastered a plan to catch Badger using a catapult. | ||||
Series Five (1995)
[edit]Series 5 to 7 featured Bodger and Badger living in a rented bedsit flat (Exterior scenes were filmed at No. 78 Grove Avenue, Hanwell in London). This was the beginning of the show's most popular and best-remembered period, series 5–7. Badger met his new friend Mousey in Series 5, a mouse who lived under the floorboards. She became a permanent fixture of the programme from that point onwards. Just as Bodger tries to keep Badger's presence hidden from figures of authority, Badger in turn kept Mousey's presence a secret from Bodger, because Bodger tried to get rid of Mousey in the first episode of Series 5 by setting traps.
These episodes reverted to the 15-minute format.
All transmission data was obtained from the BBC Genome project.
From this series onwards, no repeat transmission data will be provided on this article, as the show's success beginning with this series meant that the show would be repeated much more regularly from this point onwards than it previously had been, leading to many more repeat dates for each individual episode.
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "A Mouse in the House" | 9 January 1995 4:00pm | |
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Bodger and Badger are living in a new flat. They think they're alone until Badger makes friends with a mouse who lives under the floorboards. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Under The Floorboards" | 16 January 1995 4:00pm | |
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Badger finds it hard to visit Mousey under the floorboards, so he thinks of a plan to get under. | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "Wash Day" | 23 January 1995 4:00pm | |
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After their new washing machine blows up, Bodger and Badger have to go to the laundrette. Badger causes chaos as usual and the pair accidentally leave Bodger's washing in the laundrette. | ||||
| 4 | 4 | "Mr Selby's Pictures" | 30 January 1995 4:00pm | |
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When Bodger accidentally paints a shop sign back to front, Badger finds a quick solution with an electric saw. | ||||
| 5 | 5 | "Ancient Egyptian Mashed Potato" | 6 February 1995 4:00pm | |
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Bodger has trouble with two burglars, "Boss" and Courtney, who try to steal a valuable Ancient Egyptian statue which belongs to Bodger's aunt. Badger decides to scare the burglars off by being the ghost of the Egyptian statue. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Rent Money" | 13 February 1995 4:00pm | |
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When the rent money goes missing, Bodger and Badger are told to move out. Nothing can help them get their flat back - except Mousey. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "Here Comes Raymond" | 20 February 1995 4:00pm | |
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Bodger's old school friend - the greedy Raymond Tompkins - comes to stay, and Badger declares war to scare and get rid of him. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Twin Brother" | 27 February 1995 4:00pm | |
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Bodger rations the mashed potato, so Badger invents a twin brother in order to get double his portion. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "Mashy Mouse" | 6 March 1995 4:00pm | |
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When Bodger decides to borrow a cat to get rid of the mouse in the house, Badger and Mousey have to find a way of showing him he was imagining things. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Seaside" | 13 March 1995 4:00pm | |
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Badger wants to go to the seaside but the weather forecast is bad, so he decides to make his own seaside - in the bathroom. | ||||
| 11 | 11 | "Cosmic Potatoes" | 20 March 1995 4:00pm | |
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Badger and Mousey trick Bodger into believing that Martians are under the floorboards. | ||||
| 12 | 12 | "One of Those Days" | 27 March 1995 4:00pm | |
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Badger makes a huge amount of mashed potato and then has to find places to store it, then Bodger's computer goes wrong after Badger and Mousey have a go on it. | ||||
| 13 | 13 | "Mad Mash Bash" | 3 April 1995 4:00pm | |
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During a race with Mousey, Badger bangs his head and loses his memory. Mousey helps him to remember by reminding him of all of the adventures they have had. | ||||