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Moschops | |
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Also known as | Knobbel |
Genre | Children's television |
Written by | Ruth Boswell Gregory Stewart |
Directed by | Martin Pullen |
Voices of | Bernard Cribbins |
Narrated by | Bernard Cribbins |
Composer | Daryl Runswick |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Graham Clutterbuck |
Producer | Ruth Boswell |
Editor | Robert Dunbar |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production company | FilmFair |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 5 July 27 September 1983[1] | –
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Moschops is a British stop motion-animated children's television series produced by FilmFair, and broadcast on ITV in 1983.[2]
The characters in Moschops are designed by Sue Marke. All of the cast are prehistoric animals, except for Flower, who is the world's first flower.
The characters' names imply their species or genus. The title character, Moschops, is a young therapsid of the genus Moschops; Ally is a theropod of the genus Allosaurus; Grandfather Diplodocus is a sauropod of the genus Diplodocus; Mrs. Kerry is a ceratopsid of the genus Triceratops; Uncle Rex is a Tyrannosaurus rex; and Mr. Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur of the genus Ichthyosaurus.
In the series, Moschops and Ally are friends. They live in a cave with Grandfather Diplodocus and Uncle Rex.
From 1984 to 1985, Omroepvereniging VARA, the Dutch public broadcasting network, broadcast a Dutch-dubbed version titled Knobbel. Channel 4 retransmitted Moschops in 1988. The series was also broadcast in Canada on the Knowledge Network & TVOntario and New Zealand on Channel 2.