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Fingerbobs
Newest Review: ... even slightly scary at times. He's a genious with his hands though, making the characters Fingermouse (obviously a mouse), the seagull "Gulliver", the tortoise "Flash", and Scampi who I think is a shrimp of some sort. Gullivers head is made of a ping pong ball, the rest of them with various bits of paper or card. They are all quite cute. ... more  ... Basically each episode follows the same kind of route. Yoffy wants fingermouse to go off and collect various items such as soft stuff, rough stuff, prickly stuff...you get the idea. This in itself is quite funny, fingermouse will ask...more |
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Fingerbobs: Yoffy lives on (590 words)
by kingseany - written on 23.06.04 (Very useful, 635 readings)
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Relive your wasted youth with the complete Fingerbobs! That's what the cover says on this DVD. I'm not sure my youth was entirely wasted, but I did wanted to relive some parts of it, and Fingerbobs was something I remember very fondly. We're talking the 70's, the early part of it. It must have been repeated many times though on TV, before they decided it was no longer suitable - as I always remember it being on. You wouldn't have thought it, but there were only 13 episodes ever made, but I guess this is what makes it one of those special programs which didn't get spoilt ...
Stoffy on Yoffi (816 words)
by stoffy - written on 26.04.02 (Very useful, 355 readings)
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Nowadays, if you’re a middle aged man with a taste in jumpers that can only be described as Brandrethesque, and you entertain kids by putting bits of cut-out paper on your fingers, you run the risk of being ‘named and shamed’ by a Sunday red-top and having ‘phervet’ (sic) scrawled across your double-glazed French windows. However, back in the 1970’s, a man by the name of ‘Yoffi’ was seen by millions of children waggling his digits in the art of creative play. Yoffi was also known to many as the non-as-good-as-Floella-Benjamin-but-better-than-Fred-Harris one from ‘Play School’. Looking like a ...
Fingerbobs: Fingermouse, that's me! (393 words)
by mreyre - written on 28.10.01 (Very useful, 998 readings)
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Everyone who grew up in the 1970’s / 1980’s surely must remember this classic, now awarded cult status, children’s TV programme. If you were unfortunate to have been born on Mars or after 1987-ish; Fingerbobs featured an old hippy guy (Yoffy) who used his hands and crude props to perform a kind of puppet show. See, us children of the 1980’s didn’t have luxury animations or computer technology, we had to make do and mend. The theme tune was probably the best bit, on reflection, and it went something like this: "Yoffy lifts a finger and a mouse is there Puts his hands together and a seagull takes the air Yoffy ...
