Fimbles
| Fimbles | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Aidan Cook Samantha Dodd Wayne Forester Leah Green Kate Harbour Tamsin Heatley Matthew Lyons Garry Rutter Shelley Longworth John Tobias |
| Composer(s) | Paul K. Joyce |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 200 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Clare Elstow Mike Watts |
| Producer(s) | Helen Sheppard |
| Running time | 20 minutes approx. |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two, CBeebies |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| First shown in | CBeebies |
| Original release | 2 April 2002 – 24 September 2004 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Roly Mo Show |
Fimbles is a British television program designed for pre-school children. The series lasted 200 episodes, airing from 2002-2004. The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, magical characters who all live in a bright, lush, and colourful place called Fimble Valley. Fimbles is produced by Novel Entertainment, which also created the characters.
The snouted and concentrically-ringed appearance of the Fimbles was based on the eponymous villains of Lucy Anna and the Finders, written and illustrated by Sarah Hayes. Although Hayes is cited in the credits of Fimbles, and she was involved in adapting the characters for the television series, the implacably omnivorous Finders (who, throughout the book, threaten to eat Lucy Anna) have nothing else in common with the Fimbles.
The scripts of the 200 episodes were written by a number of writers, most notably the programme's producer Lucinda Whiteley. The Fimbles are cuddly, hippo like creatures and are portrayed by 'skin' actors in complex, fluffy animatronic suits and all look quite similar apart from their colour and size. Fimbo is yellow with green stripes, is the tallest and he likes to eat crumble crackers, Florrie is blue with purple stripes, a little smaller than Fimbo and is often seen carrying a Fimble-like doll called Little One, and Baby Pom is the smallest, green with pink stripes and generally follows the others like a toddler, whilst pushing Trundle Truck. Other characters, which are essentially large scale puppets, are a strange-looking blue tree frog called Rockit (sic), a purple and green striped mole (who almost looks like one of the Fimbles) called Roly Mo, a plump and motherly pink bird called Bessie and her chick, Ribble. Originally Ribble was an almost featureless squeaking blob of orange fur with a beak; more recently he has also had eyes.
The three Fimbles have a special "sixth sense" - when the Tinkling Tree tinkles its bell-like blossoms, it makes the nose, fingers and topknot of one or more Fimbles twitch as they get the 'Fimbling Feeling'. This tells the character(s) that they are going to find something. It may be a natural phenomenon - a patch of sunlight for example, an everyday object, e.g. a tambourine, or something which would be totally inexplicable in the real world, such as a puddle of blue "goo". Whatever is found becomes the catalyst for the episode's adventures and the trigger for the Fimbles' creative play.
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