Fingerbobs
Fingerbobs is a British children's television programme made by Q3 for the BBC.
Programme
The first episode was broadcast on 14 February 1972 on BBC1 as part of Watch with Mother. The show was created by Joanne and Michael Cole, who also created Bod. Only thirteen episodes were ever made and were regularly repeated until December 1984.Presented by mime artist "Yoffy", each ten-minute episode told a story centred on a paper finger puppet animal and usually involved collecting various items to make up another object at the end. The finger puppets, each of whom had their own song, included:
- Fingermouse – a mouse, consisting of a grey paper cone head with paper ears and whiskers with a grey glove for the body. Fingermouse later got his own show, with a new puppeteer, Play School's Iain Lauchlan, called "The Music Man". The Music Man would tell stories involving Fingermouse, using musical instruments.
- Gulliver – a seagull made from a white ping-pong ball placed over a thumb and white gloves forming the body with outstretched fingers as the wings.
- Scampi – several scampi were made using purple gloves with red heads on each finger
- Flash – a tortoise with a paper shell.
Fingermouse gained his own series in 1985. In this series, the focus was more on musical instruments. One series was made of thirteen programmes.
After filming the last episode, Jones destroyed the mouse puppet while the camera was still rolling.