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''Willo the Wisp'' is a British cartoon series originally produced in 1981. ==First series (1981)== In the first series, Kenneth Williams provided voices for all of the characters, which included these main characters: * Willo the Wisp, the narrator. A blue floating ghost-like creature, Willo had a long pointed nose which caricatured that of Williams. The name refers to the ghostly light will-o'-the-wisp from folklore. * Arthur the caterpillar (as a gruff cockney). * Mavis Cruet (known by Arthur as Mave), a plump clumsy fairy with erratic magical powers. * Evil Edna, a witch in the form of a walking, talking television set who could zap people with her aerials. * Carwash, a snooty bespectacled cat with a character based on Noël Coward. * The Moog, a supposed "dog" who is unable to think for himself. * Twit, a small bird. * The Beast, who began life as the dim Prince Humbert The Handsome, who can't pronounce the letter r correctly; an unfortunate encounter with Edna ended up with his transformation into a hairy shambling creature. In this encounter, he crashed into Edna on his bicycle and called her, "Vewy dangewous. And what a wotten pwogwamme." Edna replied, "I'll 'wotten-pwogwamme' him!" and transformed him into The Beast. Other recurring characters include: * Gnomes, one of which Mavis takes a liking to. * The Astrognats, explorers of space with a mushroom-shaped spaceship. * The Bookworm, a very clever intelligent worm who eats facts from books as a source of knowledge. * A regiment of toy soldiers. * A bat. The series was written and directed by Nick Spargo and produced by Nicholas Cartoon Films in association with the BBC and Tellytales Enterprises. The character of Willo the Wisp originated in an educational animation created by Nick Spargo for British Gas plc in 1975 and the stories were set in Doyley Woods, a small beech wood in Oxfordshire, near the director's home. Each of the original 26 episodes lasted approximately 5 minutes and were broadcast at 5:35pm on BBC1, a tradition as short cartoons were always shown between the end of the main children's BBC drama or sitcom for that afternoon, and the BBC Evening news at 5:40pm. This tradition ended with the first of two major reshufflings of the BBC1 schedules, within 6 months of Michael Grade becoming the head of BBC1. The first reshuffle occurred in September 1984, with the BBC Evening News being moved to 6pm, and the regional news programmes to 6:30pm. This vacated a 25-minute slot starting at 5:35pm, which was filled with various programmes until Australian soap Neighbours filled the gap on a more permanent basis. The series was repeated on satellite channel Galaxy Kids Club (aka Sky Kids) in 1989 and on Channel 4 during the early 1990s 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Willo the Wisp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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