There were only 13 episodes of FIngerbobs ever made, but when I was a kid I seemed to watch 100 of them, and never any repeats. I musta been a real DIM child.
Can't believe I just clicked on this and remembered and sang every word to the intro and the Fingermouse song!....man..this is taking me back to a wonderful time!
Hahaha, you think they were working on a budget with this? I loved this show. Must have cost about a tenner to make, but it still beats anything on kids TV today.
I remember being a little frightened of Yoffi's beard when I was watching this as a 3 year old, and the slightly spooky theme tune. But it was a wonderful show once I got used to it!
You wouldn't hear "guts and verve" in a kids tv song these days. Rentaghost and Barnaby Bear were a couple of others with bizarrely complex theme tune lyrics for the target audience. Or perhaps kids were just brighter in those days!
I haven't seen this since the 70s but as the opening music started, from somewhere in the back of my brain, I remembered every word to the theme tune!! I used to love this as a kid. I would always pester my mum to help me make my own version of fingermouse. I loved all the puppets in this show with the exception of the scampi children - too annoying. I think the tortoise was called Flash.
i used to always think i was remembering the prog fingermouse which was apparantly later, but now seeing this and hearing the "fingermouse" song its actually this i remember! plus i remember the grey glove and the other animals. wow, brings back so many memories from being a wee tot :) thank you!!
Yoffy drowned Fingermouse after the series finished. He actually mentioned this in a programme about Kids TV around 10 years ago. The later Fingermouse in the 1980s series looked different to the original - he had a pink tip on his nose.
This show was a bit before my time, but it seems pretty cool. It's quite surreal and 'New Age-y', quite unlike the Jolly Hockeysticks, very 'proper' Blue Peter. Jass.
I remember watching this in England around 1981. I loved it. Fred Rogers used to say "for $6,000 an episode we can entertain the kids with a drama about getting a haircut, using puppets, but for $30,000, we can give kids half an hour of animated bombardment and try to entertain them with gunfire, explosions, flashing lights, and bopping on the head."
At last! I have been asking people if they remember fingerbobs and they all thought i was mad....they said you must mean Fingermouse....which of course it is....except the title is fingerbobs...nice...i've just proved i wasn't mad after all ;)
Watching this kind of makes me sad. I was born in the us and as a kid I loved watching tv shows like this (my fav being kipper) not having the opportunity to watch these at the time makes me feel like I missed out on a peice of that era
I remember thinking even as a child that the mouse would be more anatomically correct if the head were on his middle finger. And I am now a published evolutionary biologist. OK that last bit isn't true but I have read the works of Richard Dawkins. Well I've thought about reading them. OK I'm going to bad :(
i remember as a child i was completely devestated when my father told me that finger mouse was nothing more than a mere peice of cardboard on the end of yoffi's finger. evil old sod...he used to reckon rupert bear was a drug dealer.
@TheMightyHartley I think I asked my grandad once and he told me it was a fish! I was thinking, "Doesn't look like a fish..." Guess he was half right, haha!
HAHAHAHA I just read that while the film was still rolling, he was so sick of making the episodes he destroyed the puppets on the spot. Does anyone have the video of it ?
That's a bit harsh. In fact, take it from an amateur historian of Russia, Rick Jones is nothing like Rasputin. As a kid, I thought he was a Canadian Arab.
yoffi bends another and a tortoise head peeps out. I know the bloody feeling! Now, I heard some disturbing rumours about this bloke getting into trouble for fingeringbobs, if you take my meaning. I don't believe it of course - just look at his honest face.
I take it the rumour he was a nonce was just a nasty urban myth? Although "fingerbobs"... would have been a little bit hilarious if true, at least were it not for some kids actually getting fingerbobbed.
