The Poddington Peas(1989)
Animation
First Air Date: 1989-09-14
Average Runtime: 5m
Rating: 6.3
Votes: 3
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 13
The Poddington Peas is an animated British children's television series made by Paul Needs and Colin Wyatt; the single series has 13 episodes and was first aired on the BBC in 1989. The theme song describes the peas as being "down at the bottom of the garden". Human size garden objects, giant in size to them, are seen such as up turned flower pots serving as most of their buildings. Humans themselves are never seen or mentioned. In 1992, writer Phil Gardner was employed by Poddington plc to help write some new episodes - including one intended to pilot the series in the USA, and featuring a new group of characters, the Bugz. however these were never published. There were also paper back books by Paul Needs, illustrated by Colin Wyatt and published by Box Tree / Award Publications. The paper back books including new titles will be released with a new AP and merchandise to complement these titles is being prepared for release in 2013.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 13E01
The Vegetable Show
Air Date: 1989-09-14
Poddington is holding its annual vegtable show and everyone enters, everyone apart from Creep-Pea and Black Eyed-Pea ...
E02
Creep-Pea Gets Carried Away
Air Date: 1989-09-21
The troublesome Creep-Pea and Black Eyed Pea steal a boat from Captain Hop-Pea and sail it out into the middle of the...
E03
Dump-Pea's Diet
Air Date: 1989-09-28
Dump-Pea visits Tea-Pea's tea shop and eats so much food he can't fit out of the door. Tea-Pea decides to leave him t...
E04
Mound of Trouble
Air Date: 1989-10-05
Snoppy-Pea investigates several houses in Poddington that have suddenly risen into the air, only to find that a mole ...
E05
Hip-Pea's Band
Air Date: 1989-10-12
Hip-Pea decides to put on a music event at Poddington Dance Hall, but the band members encounter numerous problems wh...
E06
Well Done Dump-Pea
Air Date: 1989-10-19
The pea's find a birds egg in their garden, and decide to look after it until the mother returns.
E07
Zip-Pea Saves the Day
Air Date: 1989-10-26
Sweat-Pea and Hap-Pea are on the way to the chip shop to get Pop-Pea some food but they get distracted by Hip-Pea's m...
E08
Poddle Island Mystery
Air Date: 1989-11-09
No episode overview available.
E09
Dough-Pea Gets Lost
Air Date: 1989-11-16
No episode overview available.
E10
Zip-Pea's Shadow
Air Date: 1989-11-23
Zip-Pea, the fastest pea in Poddington, notices his shadow is missing. After asking some of the other peas if they ha...
E11
Bubble Trouble
Air Date: 1989-11-30
Hap-Pea and Soap-Pea decide to borrow a boat and sail it to Poddle Island. Whilst there Black Eyed-Pea and Creep-Pea ...
E12
The Balloonatics
Air Date: 1989-11-30
No episode overview available.
E13
Creep-Pea's Christmas Surprise
Air Date: 1989-12-07
It's Christmas eve in Poddington and all of the Pea's are excited. Cree-Pea is visited by Santa and asked if he can d...
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