Astro Farm


Astro Farm is a British children's television series animated in stop motion. It features the adventures of the Foxwoods, a small family who work on an asteroid which is covered in farmland.
Astro Farm was produced by FilmFair for Central Independent Television and was first broadcast on CITV in 1992.

Synopsis

The main action takes place on an asteroid dedicated to farming. The Foxwoods live in a small cottage with a barn and Daisy, the cow, lives in a separate farm. The atmosphere is artificial and controlled by the weather machine in the cottage. The Gorups live on a nearby asteroid known as 'Gorp Dale' which is dark and wet.
The principal characters are Sam; Sam's wife Lizzie; Sam and Lizzie's son, Tom; Dinko, a dog; Daisy, the cow and blue chickens called Clucks; featuring the Gorups, Splodger and Biff, two miscreants who steal food and cause trouble at the farm.

Episodes

Series 1 (1992)

  1. Wacky Weather
  2. Flying Dinko
  3. The Well
  4. Moo Flu
  5. Astro Dragon
  6. Butterfly
  7. Disappearing Bubbles
  8. The Big Sneeze
  9. The Tomato Competition
  10. Barn Dance
  11. The Black Hole Mole
  12. Training Dinko
  13. The Surprise

Series 2 (1993)

  1. Biff Builds a Rocket
  2. Cluck Soup
  3. Holiday
  4. King Splodger
  5. Lizzie's Quiet Day
  6. Pumpkin
  7. Seeing Double
  8. Shrinking Machine
  9. Solar Wind
  10. Wild Martian Tiger
  11. Wishing Well

Series 3 (1994)

  1. All Aboard!
  2. Astro Dale Farm
  3. Bath Time
  4. Biffs' Baby
  5. Crow Twins
  6. Dial G For Gorp Dale
  7. Magic Onions
  8. Spooked
  9. Super Tom

Series 4 (1995)

  1. 1, 2, 3, Pull!
  2. A Mole in One
  3. Biff, Do Your Best !
  4. Cowboy Tom
  5. Dragon Moon
  6. Futile Attraction
  7. Pied Piper of Gorp Dale
  8. Slim Curd Everywhere!
  9. Splodger, the Spider
  10. That Takes the Biscuit!

Series 5 (1996)

  1. Lucky Dip
  2. Mouse Quake
  3. Pigs Might Fly
  4. Poultry in Motion
  5. Spaced-out Splodger
  6. Sparks Fly!
  7. Splodgers' About !
  8. Surprise! Surprise!
  9. To Catch a Thief
  10. Tom and the Beanstalk

Re-airings

The series was repeated on CITV until 1996 and then aired on Nickelodeon in 1997. Nickelodeon aired the first series as it was the only one to be remastered by CINAR, purchased FilmFair London and remastered the studio's shows.

Home media

In the United Kingdom, in 1992, Pickwick Video originally released two VHS tapes of the series, containing Series 1 episodes. Those were reissued in 1995 by Carlton Home Entertainment.

UK VHS releases