Doctor Snuggles

Doctor Snuggles
Dennis the Badger, Doctor Snuggles, Knobby Mouse and Snuggles's umbrella
Genre	Children's
Created by	Jeffrey O'Kelly
Written by	Original scripts and ideas by: Jeffrey O'Kelly with episode scripts by Richard Carpenter Paul Halas Douglas Adams John Lloyd Loek Kessels
Voices of	Peter Ustinov Olwen Griffiths John Challis
Narrated by	Peter Ustinov
Composer(s)	Ken Leray
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Joop H. Visch
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Polyscope Production
Release
Original network	ITV/Channel 4 in the United Kingdom AVRO in the Netherlands TVO in Canada ABC in Australia
Original release	1 October 1979 – 1980
External links
Website

Doctor Snuggles is an animated television series created by Jeffrey O'Kelly based on original artwork by Nick Price, about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles who has unusual adventures with his friends. The show featured fantastical scenarios which usually involved Doctor Snuggles inventing something outlandish such as a robot helper or diamond-making machine, and had a variety of supporting characters who were mostly anthropomorphic animals.

The show was a co-production between British and Dutch producers. The animation was split by two studios: Topcraft in Japan (episodes 1-6, 8, plus intro and ending) and DePatie-Freleng (episodes 7 and 9-13) from The United States with some minor differences in animation. All Topcraft episodes (with its unique sound effects) were directed by the prolific Tsuguyuki Kubo, who worked heavily with Rankin/Bass (among others) on a strong majority of their features, movies (The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn), and syndicated series (ThunderCats). English, Dutch, German, Swedish and Spanish language versions exist, among others. In the English-language version the title character was narrated by veteran actor Peter Ustinov, with Olwen Griffiths and John Challis. The show debuted in 1980, and consisted of thirteen half-hour episodes.

The show was based on original artwork by British illustrator Nick Price, original scripts and ideas by Jeffrey O'Kelly, and television scripts for each episode by Richard Carpenter and John Halas. Two episodes (#8 and #12) were written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, both dealing with ecological issues. Episode 9 was written by Loek Kessels.