Gophers! | |
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Created by | Mark Mason |
Starring | Lou Hirsch Francis Wright Erik Collinson Jeremy Stockwell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 1988 1990 | –
Gophers! is a Channel 4 children's programme about a family of American gophers who move into a new neighbourhood, called Sycamore Heights, living next door to a family of uptight but well-intentioned rabbits, The Burrows.
There were many recurring jokes within this short-lived show such as Arthur Burrows' vegetables planning a rebellion to escape his garden, a mad scientist ferret called Dr Wince, whose ambition was to conquer the world by obtaining a crystal buried in the Gophers' garden with the help of his reptilian servant Sly, and an alien in love with a zucchini determined to get home. Also there were stereotypical "Mexican" cockroaches (dressed in costumes of Mexican peasant revolutionaries of the Mexican Revolution of 1910) who lived in the Gophers' house or trailer park mobile home always trying to steal their food.
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- 1990 British television series endings
- 1980s British children's television series
- 1990s British children's television series
- Channel 4 original programming
- British children's television series
- Television series about mammals
- British television shows featuring puppetry
- British English-language television shows
- British children's television show stubs