Moschops (TV series)

Moschops
Also known asKnobbel
GenreChildren's television
Written byRuth Boswell
Gregory Stewart
Directed byMartin Pullen
Voices ofBernard Cribbins
Narrated byBernard Cribbins
ComposerDaryl Runswick
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producerGraham Clutterbuck
ProducerRuth Boswell
EditorRobert Dunbar
Running time11 minutes
Production companyFilmFair
Original release
NetworkITV
Release5 July (1983-07-05) –
27 September 1983 (1983-09-27)[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.

  1. ^ "Moschops". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Toonhound - Moschops (1983)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.