THEY REALLY needn’t have bothered. As a training sop for junior animators and a stopgap in VISION ON between Tone’s New York skyline murals done with paint rollers with bits cut out, the antics of this shape-shifting blob of plasticine bloke thing were OKish. Laden with a story and a can’t-be-arsed narration from the boy Hart, it was a thunderously so-so entry in the 5.35 canon. Those supporting characters in full: laid-back “cool dude” Chas, amiable lummox Gillespie, old bloke with beard Grandmorph, a woman called Delilah who looked just like Morph but with hair and specs, and a girl made out of tin foil, called Foily, imaginatively. Oh, and there was a scrubbing brush masquerading as a dog, some kind of alien thing, and loads of little blobs of plasticine. Er. Lengthy BLUE PETER features on How They Did The Voice (they speeded up the tape!) did little to galvanise interest. Nasty miaowing-synth theme tune, too.
Amazing Adventures of Morph, The
1982 to 1984 on BBC1
TV CREAM SAYS: WHAT KIND OF ADVENTURE CAN A BIT OF PLASTICINE HAVE, ANYWAY?
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Sunday, 15.15, BBC1A full house for your PoV bingo card last week with this series’ first suggestion of launching a BBC sport channel, yet again failing to explain why they wouldn’t then launch a BBC soap channel, comedy channel and everything else, and then just have a blank screen on BBC1 for most of the day. Now we’ve covered the bases, not sure where this run has left to go.
The woman whose name you’ve forgotten who looked like Morph with hair and specs was the only-slightly-less-bemusingly-named-as-Gillespie “Delilah”.
Cheers David. Entry updated!
Actually I think the tin foil girl was called “Folly”, though “Foily” would be more appropriate now you mention it…maybe the result of a typo somewhere along the line at Aardman? (I really remember far too much about this programme don’t I?)
I think there was a version of the theme tune with actual LYRICS, something along the lines of “Wake up Morph, are you ready for another day?”…that’s all I can remember, but some synth-duo comprised of a pair of smart-arsed looking new-romantic types sang it on Blue Peter…to quote the Drive By abuser, fair play to ‘em, I wouldn’t have the fucking nerve!
Having found an episode on an ancient and crackly Ferguson VHS tape, I can now confirm that the little blobs of plasticine were imaginatively called ‘the very small creatures’. You can all rest easy now.