Potamus Park | |
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Created by | Christopher Noulton John Lee Paul Cole |
Voices of | Simon Buckley Philip Eason Rusty Goffe Atalanta Harmsworth Stroma Inglis Mark Jefferis Nikki Mclnnes Nigel Plaskitt Jo Manning Wilson |
Opening theme | "(We're On Our Way To) Potamus Park" by Geoff Robinson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 75 |
Production | |
Producers | John Lee Chris Noulton for ITV Central |
Production location | Pinewood Studios |
Running time | 10 minutes per episode (approx.) |
Production companies | Carlton UK Productions, Zoo Gang Productions, Central Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV (CITV) |
Release | January 3, 1996 – April 2, 1998 |
Potamus Park is a British pre-school television programme that ran on CITV in the United Kingdom between 1995 and 1999. The show centred on a small family of hippopotamuses, Herbie, Hippy, Hazel and Hinkley, this show was sponsored by Hippo Fromage Frais and was filmed at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, England. [1]
Characters featured included Ticker, (a bird,) Got To Guess, (a blue creature that used sign language to communicate) and Mindy and Mo (two Moles who live in a water well and use a bucket as a lift whenever the hippopotamuses need help). Every episode was introduced by three anthropomorphic flowers, who would explain whatever is to come or what may have been happening in the episode.
Various episodes of the series were released on VHS by Carlton Video in the United Kingdom.
Title | Release Date |
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Pleased To Meet you VL 1 | 1996 |
This Is Where We Live VL 2 | 1996 |
Name That Tune Vl 3 | 1996 |
Hungry Hippos VL 4 | 1997 |
Secrets VL 5 | 1997 |
Bedtime Story V11 | 1998 |
Dressing Up V7 | 1999 |
Hip Hip Ray Day V6 | 1999 |
Where Shall We Go V10 | 1999 |
Abracadabra V9 | 1999 |
Buried Treasure V8 | 2000 |
Carlton Home Video issued many video cassettes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Although the television series was genuinely well received, ITV decided to cut the series in 1999 due to the rival show Bananas in Pyjamas, which received higher ratings. Even though the series ended in 1999, CITV continued to air the show until January 2000. [2]
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