Noddy (TV series)

Premise

Characters

Humans

• Noah Tomten is a former old salt and owner of the Noddy Shop.
• Katherine "Kate" Tomten is Noah's granddaughter and Truman's older sister.
• Daniel "D.J." Johnson is Kate and Truman's friend.
• Truman Tomten is Noah's grandson and Kate's younger brother.
• Agatha Flugelschmidt is Noah's younger scatterbrained sister and Kate and Truman's great aunt. She owns a hat shop next door to the Noddy Shop.
• Officer Carl Spiffy is Littleton Falls' senior crossing guard. He is often confident in some suspicious activities. He then retired at the end of the first season.
• Bud Topper is Littleton Falls' second crossing guard. He is a young crossing guard who often gets into practical jokes and hilarious chases around town. He replaced Carl Spiffy, starting with the second-season episode "Little Swap of Horrors".
• Davy Gladhand is a quirky, wisecracking salesman. He often tells jokes and is good friends with Noah. In the regular episodes, he wears a straw boater hat, while in the Christmas episode "Anything Can Happen at Christmas", he wears a red bowler hat.
• Hilda Sweetly is an ice cream saleswoman dressed in an ice cream costume. She and Noah are romantically involved by the end of the series.
• April May McJune is a cautious animal wrangler. She can take care of animals such as a rabbit, a parrot, or even a skunk.
• Charlene von Pickings is a posh and snobby rich woman who speaks with a British accent and is very difficult to impress.
• Jake is a teenager who visits the Noddy Shop. In "Following Directions", he was sent to give Agatha and the kids directions while Noah takes off when he has the flu.
• Itchy is Aunt Agatha's grandson.
• Rox is a girl who, along with Grit, challenged Kate and D.J. to a race in Sports Day.
• Grit is a boy who, along with Rox, challenged Kate and D.J. to a race in Sports Day.
• Sam is Truman's new friend. In "Ask Permission", he takes the mermaid without asking Noah, so Truman decides to tell Sam the Noddy story about Noddy setting a trap for Sammy Sailor, like the one Kate told him.
• Robbie MacRhino is a mascot dressed as a green rhino in a traditional Scottish kilt.
• Ed Caruso is Robbie MacRhino's singing presenter who introduces Robbie MacRhino in song.

Toys and Antiques

• Noddy is the central character of the animated segments. During the live-action segments in Season 2, he is mostly still, but occasionally wanders around and talks to Truman and often the shop toys.
• Warloworth Q. Weasel is a malicious weasel in a bowler hat who resides in a Jack-in-the-box and always plays tricks on the other toys, but usually gets his comeuppance. When he pops out of the box, he sings and tap dances in his tap shoes on his feet.
• Bonita Flamingo is a bright orange plush flamingo dressed like Carmen Miranda. She speaks in an exaggerated Spanish accent, often saying things in Spanish and English. She acts motherly to Truman.
• Johnny Crawfish is a lobster who tells a lot of jokes and resides in a fish tank, and sometimes plays rock and roll songs on the piano. He is inspired by Johnny Carson.
• Big Ears is a friendly gnome who is Noddy's helper and father figure in the animated segments. Unlike Noddy, he never moves or talks at all during the live-action segments.
• Sherman is a clockwork turtle with wheels like a tank, who wears an army helmet.
• Rusty is a toy clown who is good friends with Sherman, and always rides on his back.
• Planet Pup is a small robotic dog, supposedly from outer space. He was the first toy to interact with Truman and gets along with him.
• Lichtenstein is a beer tankard shaped like a Viking's head, usually referred to simply as "Stein" and is based on actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He doesn't speak much, but could usually be seen singing along with the songs. When Litchenstein does speak, he has a noticeable German accent, and ends many of his sentences with "Ja".
• Island Princess is a wooden carving, rather like a ship's figurehead, in a traditional Hawaiian costume. She sees everything that goes on in the shop, and sometimes alerts the toys to the pranks of the Goblins.
• Gertie Gator is a plastic alligator who stands on two legs, wears red glasses, a purple dress and carries a matching umbrella. In the song from the episode "Growing Lies", Gertie Gator wears a yellow choir gown, indicating that the song is gospel and pop.
• Granny Duck is a wise plastic duck on wheels who wears a red hat, glasses and who usually speaks in rhyme.
• The Do-Wop Penguins are four penguins who never speak and only sing in every episode, sometimes as Gertie Gator's backing group. Along with the Ruby Reds, they often provide short interludes introducing the Noddy story, or a turning point in the action of the episode.
• Ruby Reds is a box of five fake lips who also have no spoken dialogue, but sing in every episode, sometimes as Johnny Crawfish's backing group.
• Fred and Gingersnap are a couple of porcelain pig figurines in matching outfits – one blue, one pink – and berets. They speak in an exaggerated French accent.
• Whiny and Whimper are two baby dolls, one male, one female – one is dressed in pink, the other in blue – in a cradle. They often cry at any tense situation like lost rattles. They are usually found singing with the other characters. In one episode, a miscast spell by Boobull causes them to speak like teenagers.
• Shorty Salt Shaker and Slim Pepper Shaker are salt and pepper shakers shaped like saguaro, with cowboy hats and bandannas – one red, one blue. They speak with a Southern accent.
• Gaylord Gumball is a wise gumball machine whose handles and slot resemble a moustache and mouth.
• Wind-up Teeth are a pair of wind up chattery teeth that chatters when excited or scared.

Minor human characters

• Gus is a garbage truck driver who appears in the episode "Going Bananas". He was first introduced when he stopped by the Noddy Shop to inform Noah that he shall get himself a banana, as well as a hat. Unfortunately, the battery in his truck died, so he decided to stick around until he gets back on the road.
• Seymour Polutski is the main antagonist of the series finale episode "Closing Up Shop". When Noah was lacking consumers, he accepted the deal to buy the shop and attempted to turn the Noddy Shop into a cigar store. When the kids tell him that smoking was not permitted, he snaps at them. Later on, when Polutski was about to light the cigar, Disrupto stops him and informs him smoking is prohibited in the store and confiscates his cigar with his left claw. But before Polutski can retrieve the cigar, he accidentally leans on the new toy Goopy Gary, used by Warloworth Q. Weasel as a trap. As a result, Polutski escapes the store, never to be seen again.
• Noah's Customers are assorted customers of Noah's at the Noddy Shop appear in either small or large roles in some episodes, like the people do in "Growing Lies" where three customers speak.

Minor toy characters

• The Tooth Fairy appeared in "The Tooth Fairy". She is a fairy who comes to see Truman in the shop who gets a loose tooth.
• Jack Frost appears in "Jack Frost is Coming to Town". He lives inside a snow globe.
• Disrupto is a robot who appears in "Big Bullies" and "The Human Touch". In the latter episode, it is revealed that he is capable of interacting with a computer. He then appeared in the series finale "Closing Up Shop", where he informs Seymour Polutski that smoking is not permitted in the shop before confiscating the cigar with his left claw and using the new toy Gooey Stewie as a trap, prompting Polutski to escape and withdrawing from his proposal.
• Angelina appears in "Part of the Family". She was forgotten in Noah's stockroom, but was brought to life upon the presence of a visitor named Julie.
• Annabelle appears in "Anything Can Happen at Christmas". She is Santa Claus' wife who comes to check on her favourite toys in the shop.
• The Sandman appears in "The Sandman Cometh". He casts a spell that puts everyone in the shop to sleep.

Cast

Live-action cast

• Sean McCann as Noah Tomten, a former sailor who now runs an antique shop called the Noddy Shop.
• Katie Boland as Kate Tomten, Noah's granddaughter.
• Max Morrow as Truman Tomten, Noah's grandson.
• Kyle Kassardjian as Daniel "D.J." Johnson, Kate and Truman's friend.
• Jayne Eastwood as Agatha Flugelschmidt, Noah's scatterbrained sister, who owns the hat shop next door. She is good friends with the children, who call her Aunt Agatha. She is married, but her husband is unseen.
• Dan Redican as Officer Carl Spiffy
• Neil Crone as Officer Bud Topper
• Taborah Johnson as Miss Hilda Sweetly, an ice cream vendor who pushes a cart dressed as a giant strawberry ice cream cone. There is implication that she and Noah are romantically attracted to each other.
• Gerry Quigley as Davy Gladhand, a salesman.
• Gina Sorell as April May McJune, a Brownie leader and friend of Aunt Agatha's.
• Albert Rosos as Jake, a teenager who visits the Noddy Shop.
• Stephen Joffe as Itchy, Aunt Agatha's nephew.
• Jake Goldsbie as Grit, a boy in Sports Day.
• Lauren Collins as Rox, a girl in Sports Day.
• Daniel Magder as Sam, Truman's new friend.
• Burke Lawrence as Robbie MacRhino, a mascot dressed as a green rhino in a traditional Scottish kilt.
• Greg Cross as Ed Caruso, Robbie MacRhino's singing presenter.
• Jim Calder as Lurk Goblin, the father in a family of goblins who live in a small doll's house. He and his wife create much of the drama in the series, but he doesn't mean any harm. He mainly talks gibberish, with a few recognisable words.
• Nikki Pascetta as Snipe Goblin, the mother of the Goblin Family. Like her husband Lurk, she mainly speaks in gibberish, doesn't mean any harm, and cares deeply for their son.
• Gil Filar as Boobull Goblin, the son of Lurk and Snipe. Despite being the youngest, he is intelligent, speaks proper English, and appears to be in charge of his Mom and Dad.

Puppet voices

• Frank Meschkuleit
• Matt Ficner
• James Rankin

Voice cast

Original (UK)

• Susan Sheridan as Noddy, Tessie Bear, Dinah Doll, Sly, Clockwork Mouse, Miss Pink Cat, Martha Monkey, Mrs. Tubby Bear, Mrs. Noah and Lady Giraffe
• Jimmy Hibbert as the Narrator, Big Ears, Master Tubby Bear, Mr. Plod, Bumpy Dog, Noddy's Car, Gobbo, Sammy Sailor, Mr. Sparks, Mr. Straw, Mr. Wobbly Man, Mr. Milko, Mr. Noah, Mr. Train Driver, Mr. Jumbo, Bunkey, Father Christmas and Lord Giraffe

US Dub

• Katie Boland as the Narrator
• Catherine Disher as Noddy, Sly and Master Tubby Bear
• Karen Bernstein as Tessie Bear
• Benedict Campbell as Big Ears, Mr. Plod, Clockwork Clown and Mr. Tubby Bear
• Sharon Lee Williams as Dinah Doll
• James Rankin as Gobbo
• Michael Stark as Mr. Wobbly Man, Clockwork Mouse, Mr. Sparks, Mr. Jumbo, Mr. Train Driver, Mr. Milko, Sammy Sailor, Mr. Noah and Mr. Straw
• Lynne Griffin as Miss Pink Cat and Martha Monkey
• Fiona Reid as Mrs. Tubby Bear and Mrs. Noah

Puppeteers

• Matt Ficner
• Frank Meschkuleit
• James Rankin
• Noreen Young

Reception

International success