The Poddington Peas (1989–1989)

Name: The Poddington Peas
Genre: Animation

TV ShowEndedAnimation1 season, 13 episodes

Plot

The Poddington Peas is an animated British children's television series made by Paul Needs and Colin Wyatt; the single series has 13 episodes and was first aired on the BBC in 1989. The theme song describes the peas as being "down at the bottom of the garden". Human size garden objects, giant in size to them, are seen such as up turned flower pots serving as most of their buildings. Humans themselves are never seen or mentioned. In 1992, writer Phil Gardner was employed by Poddington plc to help write some new episodes - including one intended to pilot the series in the USA, and featuring a new group of characters, the Bugz. however these were never published. There were also paper back books by Paul Needs, illustrated by Colin Wyatt and published by Box Tree / Award Publications. The paper back books including new titles will be released with a new AP and merchandise to complement these titles is being prepared for release in 2013.

Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes1989Aired—Season avg

S01E01The Vegetable ShowSeptember 14, 1989—Poddington is holding its annual vegtable show and everyone enters, everyone apart from Creep-Pea and Black Eyed-Pea who have forgot to grow
S01E02Creep-Pea Gets Carried AwaySeptember 21, 1989—The troublesome Creep-Pea and Black Eyed Pea steal a boat from Captain Hop-Pea and sail it out into the middle of the sea. When P.C Pod arri
S01E03Dump-Pea's DietSeptember 28, 1989—Dump-Pea visits Tea-Pea's tea shop and eats so much food he can't fit out of the door. Tea-Pea decides to leave him there overnight in the h
S01E04Mound of TroubleOctober 5, 1989—Snoppy-Pea investigates several houses in Poddington that have suddenly risen into the air, only to find that a mole maybe the culprit.
S01E05Hip-Pea's BandOctober 12, 1989—Hip-Pea decides to put on a music event at Poddington Dance Hall, but the band members encounter numerous problems which mean they may not b
S01E06Well Done Dump-PeaOctober 19, 1989—The pea's find a birds egg in their garden, and decide to look after it until the mother returns.
S01E07Zip-Pea Saves the DayOctober 26, 1989—Sweat-Pea and Hap-Pea are on the way to the chip shop to get Pop-Pea some food but they get distracted by Hip-Pea's music. Luckily Zip-Pea o
S01E08Poddle Island MysteryNovember 9, 1989—
S01E09Dough-Pea Gets LostNovember 16, 1989—
S01E10Zip-Pea's ShadowNovember 23, 1989—Zip-Pea, the fastest pea in Poddington, notices his shadow is missing. After asking some of the other peas if they have seen it, G-Pea tells
S01E11Bubble TroubleNovember 30, 1989—Hap-Pea and Soap-Pea decide to borrow a boat and sail it to Poddle Island. Whilst there Black Eyed-Pea and Creep-Pea steal the boat and retu
S01E12The BalloonaticsNovember 30, 1989—
S01E13Creep-Pea's Christmas SurpriseDecember 7, 1989—It's Christmas eve in Poddington and all of the Pea's are excited. Cree-Pea is visited by Santa and asked if he can deliver everyone's prese

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