Fingerbobs

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Fingerbobs is a show from the early 70's featuring a man known as Yoffi (he was really a Playschool presenter at the time) who has little fingerpuppets that he talks to - yup hes a nutter! These fingerpuppets go off and gather together items that he can use to illustrate his stories. The fingerpuppets also talk to each other and even argue?! And this show was for kids - no wonder I grew up like I am! The fingerpuppets - Fingermouse the mouse, Flash the tortoise, Scampi the Scampi and Gulliver the seagull. Each have their own little songs when they go off on their adventures - eg: "Finger mouse, finger mouse - I get round cats so easily with ...  Read the complete review