Oh, Mr. Toad | |
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Created by | Brian Trueman |
Starring | Richard Pearson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Running time | 20mins |
Release | |
Original network | ITV Network (Thames) |
Original release | 27 March – 19 June 1990 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | A Tale Of Two Toads |
Oh, Mr. Toad was a television spin-off from the 1990s stop motion animation series The Wind in the Willows. The show was animated by Cosgrove Hall and broadcast on the ITV network. It then became Series 5 of the main series, when it came onto DVD. Despite having a different title, it really differed very little from the previous series, except that every episode focused primarily on Toad, whereas other characters would often have been at the centre of the episodes of The Wind in the Willows.
On their original transmission in the UK, the episodes in the series opened with the same opening as the " A Tale of two Toads" feature -length special, and as the series is primarily about the exploits of Toad, the theme tune is David Jason singing Toad’s own panegyric to himself, as found in Kenneth Grahame's original book:
However for overseas broadcast (and when released on the DVD set 'Wind In the Willows: Complete Collection') the opening titles and music were changed for those featured in the previous series of The Wind in the Willows.