September 28, 1998 – February 16, 2000
Noddy, (known as The Noddy Shop or Noddy in Toyland (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a Canadian live-action/animated children's television series based on Enid Blyton's children's book series of the same name featuring the animated episodes from Noddy's Toyland Adventures. The show was broadcast from 7 September 1998 to 11 December 1999 and broadcast on TVOntario and CBC Television in Canada.
Storyline[]
The show starred Sean McCann as Noah Tomten, a former old salt, who now runs an antique shop in Littleton Falls, the NODDY Shop (this stood for "Notions, Oddities, Doodads & Delights of Yesterday"). His catchphrases included "What in tarnation?!" and "Great Neptune's Ghost!", usually whenever he was excited about something. It also starred Jayne Eastwood as his scatterbrained sister, Agatha Flugelschmidt, who runs a hat shop next door to the Noddy Shop. Her catchphrases include "Oh, pish posh!", usually after she disagrees with something that someone else said.
The stories in The Noddy Shop mainly centered on three children, Noah's grandchildren, Kate and Truman, and a friend of Kate's named Daniel Johnson, shortened to D.J., who came to play at the shop, and were collected by their (unseen) parents at the end of the day, implying the episodes were set after school, during school holidays or weekends.
In the second season, Truman gained the ability to talk to the toys in the shop, and Noddy gained a more prominent role in the live action segments, often interacting with the toys and Truman. Most of the stories were repeated from the first season with some minor additions, as well as also introducing new stories coming from the fourth and final season of Noddy's Toyland Adventures.
Most episodes had a moral message, which was conveyed with a Noddy story, usually told by Kate using the Noddy dolls in the shop, which the viewer saw as re-dubbed and re-scored Noddy animations. The moral message was also a theme in a song sung by the shop's population of anthropomorphic toys. There was sometimes a second song, usually a re enactment of a popular folk tale. These songs were written by Nashville-based composer Dennis Scott.
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Sound Effects Used[]
- Hollywoodedge, Cats Fighting Loud Sc PE917007/Hollywoodedge, Cats Two Angry YowlsD PE022601 (3rd yowl heard once in "We All Say Boo!" during the song "I'm Not Scared".)
- Hollywoodedge, Small Group Bats Fly CRT010903 (Heard once in "We All Say Boo!" during the song "I'm Not Scared".)
- Roland Flexitone Sound (Heard once in "Thunder and Lightning" during the song "Rub-a-Dub-Dub".)
- Sound Ideas, BUBBLES, UNDERWATER - STEADY UNDERWATER BUBBLES (Used for the interior of Johnny Crawfish's fish tank ambience.)
- Sound Ideas, BUBBLES, WATER - SMALL, STEADY, RAPID BUBBLES, LOW INTENSITY, BOIL (Used for the exterior of Johnny Crawfish's fish tank ambience.)
- Sound Ideas, WEATHER, LIGHTNING - BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRIKES CLOSE BY, THUNDER 04 (Heard once in "Thunder and Lightning".)
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, SLIDE - SLIDE DOWN, SLOW (Heard once in "Jack Frost is Coming to Town" during the song "Jack Frost is Back in Town".)