Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)
| Danger Mouse | |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy, espionage |
| Created by |
Brian Cosgrove Mark Hall |
| Voices of | |
| Narrated by | David Jason |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 161 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 5–25 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Cosgrove Hall Films Thames Television |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 4:3 576i |
| Original release | 28 September 1981 – 19 March 1992 |
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| External links | |
| Danger Mouse official site | |
Danger Mouse is a British animated television series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. It featured the eponymous Danger Mouse who worked as a secret agent. The show was a parody of British spy fiction, particularly the Danger Man series and James Bond. The show originally ran in the United Kingdom from 28 September 1981 to 19 March 1992.
A continuation of the original series, under the same name, began airing in September 2015 on CBBC. The series also spawned a spin-off show, Count Duckula, which aired between 1988 and 1993.
Danger Mouse was created by Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove for their production company, Cosgrove Hall Films. Danger Mouse was based on Patrick McGoohan's lead role in Danger Man.
The series was intended to have a more serious tone as seen in the pilot episode but Mike Harding gave Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall the idea to make the series silly. Mike said: "The characters had got stuck in reality and were doing James Bond type things rooted in the solid real world. I argued that once you invented a Mouse Secret Agent then all of creation and a good chunk of not creation was his oyster. In other words we could be as barmy (crazy) as we wanted."
By 1983, Danger Mouse viewing figures hit an all-time high of 21 million viewers.
On 4 June 1984, Danger Mouse was the first British cartoon to appear on Nickelodeon and become one of the earliest British cartoons to be in syndication in America, as the series appealed to both pre-teens and adults with its quick-witted English humour.
In the UK, Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows, Danger Mouse came third, beaten only by The Muppet Show and The Simpsons. The original Danger Mouse returned to terrestrial television after the BBC purchased episodes of the series to broadcast in its daytime schedules with its first broadcast on 12 February 2007.
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