Cartoon Critters (partially found CBBC puppet series; 1996-1999)

The show's hosts, Dogsbody and Fleur

Status: Partially Found

Cartoon Critters is a British puppet show that first premiered on BBC Two as part of it's CBBC block on July 3rd, 1996 and aired its last episode on BBC One on September 30, 1999. It featured two anthropomorphic dog hosts named Dogsbody (a character from an earlier show made by the same group of people, Spacevets) and Fleur Pompidou. The characters were voiced by Robin Kingsland and Julie Westwood respectively, with Kingsland also being a writer on the show.

Each episode revolved around teaching the viewer how animals behaved in the real world compared to their animated counterparts. This would be achieved with a mixture of real-life documentary footage and cartoons from classics such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes to recent programmes such as Pingu. In addition to this, each episode had its own unique storyline involving Dogsbody and Fleur in their studio space and a segment where Dogsbody would draw his own cartoon character and bring it to life using what the show calls the "Critterizer", showing a short animation where the character does something humourous.

Availability

So far only 7 episodes have been uploaded online, two episodes from series 2 and five episodes from series 4. The only footage of series 1 comes from very brief clips found in a CBBC promo made when the series was airing, leaving absolutely no footage or known material for series 3. All of the uploads of the show online have the cartoon segments edited out due to copyright reasons.

Episode list

Series 1

#	Title	Status
1	The Beginning	Lost
2	Charity Auction	Lost
3	The Holiday	Lost
4	The Zapper	Lost
5	The Fortune Teller	Lost
6	Interio's Design	Lost
7	Makeover	Lost
8	The Strike	Lost
9	Mountain Bike	Lost
10	Football Match	Lost
11	Birthday	Lost
12	The Day Off	Lost
13	I Don't Need You	Lost

Series 2

#	Title	Status
1	Fitness	Lost
2	Dog in a Dress	Lost
3	First With the News	Lost
4	Camping Trip	Partially Found
5	Mouse	Lost
6	Luvvies	Lost
7	From Bad to Verse	Partially Lost (cartoon segments missing)
8	Wild West	Partially Lost (cartoon segments missing)
9	Hard Luck	Lost
10	Election Fever	Lost
11	Record Breakers	Lost
12	Chained Is as Good as a Rest	Lost
13	Maximum Security	Lost

Series 3

#	Title	Status
1	Pets	Lost
2	Open Day	Lost
3	Clones	Lost
4	Video Diaries	Lost
5	When Will I Be Famous?	Lost
6	Cutting Back	Lost
7	Fleur's Book	Lost
8	Commercial Break	Lost
9	DIY	Lost
10	Screen Writers	Lost
11	Stress Busters	Lost
12	Competition	Lost
13	Cartoon Critters Christmas Special	Lost

Series 4

#	Title	Status
1	Astro Dog	Partially Lost (beginning and cartoon segments missing)
2	Bark of Avon	Partially Lost (beginning and cartoon segments missing)
3	Fleur's New Friend	Partially Lost (beginning and cartoon segments missing)
4	Pavlov's Dogsbody	Lost
5	The Buzz	Lost
6	The Picture	Partially Lost (beginning and cartoon segments missing)
7	I'm Bored	Lost
8	The Last Day	Lost
9	Dogsbody's Bodypods	Lost
10	Boxed Friends	Lost
11	Am Dram	Lost
12	The Appeal	Lost
13	The Dig	Partially Lost (beginning and cartoon segments missing)

Gallery

A BBC Two promo featuring brief clips of the show. (at 29:39)

A BBC One promo for series 4 using clips from the episode "Astro Dog". (at 0:54)