Danger Mouse

Danger Mouse is a British children’s animated television series. The main character is Danger Mouse who worked as a secret agent.

The show was originally on television in the United Kingdom from 28 September 1981 to 19 March 1992. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. The series also had a spin-off show, Count Duckula.

Danger Mouse was a parody of British spy fiction, particularly the Danger Man series and James Bond.

A continuation of the original series, under the same name, began airing in September 2015 on CBBC.^[1][2]

History

In 1983, Danger Mouse had an all-time high of 21 million viewers.^[3]This is still a record number of viewers for a children's programme.^[4]

On 4 June 1984, Danger Mouse was the first British cartoon to appear on Nickelodeon. This made it one of the earliest British cartoons to be in syndication in America.^[5]

Danger Mouse took third place in the 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows by Channel 4 in the UK. It was only beaten by The Muppet Show and The Simpsons.^[6]

Characters

• Danger Mouse (voiced by David Jason) the world's greatest secret agent.
• Penfold (voiced by Terry Scott) Danger Mouse's sidekicks who is reluctant to do any missions.
• Colonel K (voiced by Edward Kelsey) The boss of Danger Mouse who sends him on missions.
• Baron Greenback (voiced by Edward Kelsey) The main antagonist who hates Danger Mouse and wants to rule the world.
• Stiletto (voiced by Brian Trueman) Greenbacks henchman who used to be loyal but is now stupid.
• Leatherhead (voiced by Terry Scott) Another one of Greenbacks henchman who likes to read comics.
• Narrator (voiced by David Jason) The narrator of the show who hates his job and wants to quit.

Episodes

Pilot (1979-1980)

No.	Title	Airdate	Prod. Code
1	Episode 1	N/A	001
2	Mystery of the Lost Chord	2001	002

Season 1 (1981)

No. Overall	No. In season	Title	Air date	Prod. Code
1	1	Rouge Robots	September 28, 1981	101
2	2	Who Stole the Bagpipes	September 30, 1981	102
3	3	Trouble With Ghosts	October 5, 1981	103
4	4	Chicken Run	October 7, 1981	104
5	5	The Martian Misfit	October 12, 1981	105
6	6	Dream Machine	October 14, 1981	106
7	7	Lord of the Bungle	October 19, 1981	107
8	8	Die Laughing	October 21, 1981	108
9	9	The World of Machines	October 26, 1981	109
10	10	Ice Station Camel	October 28, 1981	110
11	11	A Plague of Pyramids	November 2, 1981	111

Season 2 (1982)

No. Overall	No. In season	Title	Air date	Prod. Code
12	1	Custard	January 4, 1982	201
13	2	Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind	January 11, 1982	202
14	3	The Duel	January 18, 1982	203
15	4	The Day of the Suds	January 25, 1982	204
16	5	The Bad Luck Eye of the Yellow God	February 1 1982	205
17	6	Four Tasks of Danger Mouse	February 8 1982	206

Season 3 (1982)

No. Overall	No. In Season	Title	Air date	Prod code
18	1	The Invasion of Colonel K	October 4, 1982	301
19	2	Danger Mouse Saves The World Again	October 11, 1982	302
20	3	The Oddball Runaround	October 18, 1982	303
21	4	Strange Case of the Ghost Bus	October 25, 1982	112
22	5	The Trip to America	November 1, 1982	113

Season 4 (1983)

No. Overall	No. In season	Title	Air date	Prod code
23	1	The Wild, Wild Goose Chase	January 3, 1983	401
24	2	The Return of Count Duckula	January 10, 1983	402
25	3	Demons Aren’t Dull?	January 17, 1983	403
26	4	150 Million Years Lost	April 11, 1983	404
27	5	Planet of the Cats	April 18, 1983	405
28	6	Four Heads Are Better Than Two	April 25, 1983	406
29	7	Tower of Terror	May 9, 1983	407
30	8	The Great Bone Idol	May 16, 1983	408
31	9	Public Enemy Number One	May 23, 1983	409

Season 5 (1984)

No. overall	No. In Season	Title	Air date	Prod code
32	1	The Long Lost Crown Affair	February 20, 1984	501
33	2	By George, It’s a Dragon!	February 27, 1984	502
34	3	Tiptoe Through the Penfolds	March 5, 1984	503
35	4	Project Moon	March 12, 1984	504
36	5	The Next Ice Age Begins At Midnight	March 19, 1984	505
37	6	The Aliens Are Coming	March 26, 1984	506
38	7	Remote Controlled Chaos	April 2, 1984	507
39	8	The Man From Gadget	April 9, 1984	508
40	9	Tampering With Time Tickles	April 16, 1984	509
41	10	Nero Power	April 30, 1984	510

Season 6 (1984-85)

No. overall	No. in series	Title	Date	Prod code
42	1	Once Upon A Timeslip	December 25, 1984	611
43	2	Viva Danger Mouse	January 3, 1985	601
44	3	Play It Again Wufgang	January 10, 1985	612
45	4	Hear Hear	January 17, 1985	602
46	5	Multiplication Fable	January 24, 1985	603
47	6	The Spy Who Stayed In With A Cold	January 31, 1985	604
48	7	It’s All White, White Wonder	February 7, 1985	613
49	8	The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma	February 14, 1985	614
50	9	What A 3 Point Turn Up For The Book	February 21, 1985	615
51	10	Quark! Quark!	February 28, 1985	616
52	11	Alping is Snow Easy Matter	March 7, 1985	605
53	12	AAAAGH! Spiders!	March 14, 1985	617
54	13	One Of Our Stately Homes Is Missing	March 21, 1985	606
55	14	Afternoon Off With The Fangboner	March 28, 1985	618
56	15	Beware of Mexicans Delivering Milk	April 4, 1985	620
57	16	CATastrophe	April 11, 1985	621
58	17	The Good, The Bad, And The Motionless	April 18, 1985	622
59	18	Statues	April 25, 1985	623
60	19	The Clock Strikes Back	May 2, 1985	624
61	20	Ee-Tea	May 9, 1985	607
62	21	Bandits, Beans, and Ballyhoo!	May 23, 1985	619
63	22	Have You Fled From Any Good Books Lately	May 30, 1985	625
64	23	Tut, Tut, It’s Not Pharaoh	June 6, 1985	608
65	24	Lost, Found, and Spellbound	June 13, 1985	626
66	25	Penfold BF	June 20, 1985	627
67	26	Mechanized Mayhem	June 27, 1985	628
68	27	Journey To The Earths Cor	December 25, 1985	629

Season 7 (1986)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Prod. Code
69	1	DM on the Orient Express	November 13, 1986	701
70	2	The Ultra Secret Secret	November 20, 1986	702
71	3	Duckula Meets Frankenstoat	November 27, 1986	703
72	4	Where There’s a Well, There’s A Way	December 4, 1986	704
73	5	All Fall Down	December 11, 1986	705
74	6	Turn of the Tide	December 18, 1986	706

Season 8 (1987)

No. Overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Prod. Code
75	1	Gremlin Alert	February 20, 1987	609 (UK) 801 (US)
76	2	Cor What A Picture	February 27, 1987	610 (UK) 802 (US)

Season 9 (1991)

No. Overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Prod. Code
77	1	I Spy With My Little Eye	January 3, 1991	901
78	2	Bigfoot Falls	January 10, 1991	902
79	3	The Statue of Liberty Caper	January 17, 1991	903
80	4	Penfold Transformed	January 24, 1991	904
81	5	A Dune With A View	January 31, 1991	905
82	6	Don Coyote and Sancho Penfold	February 7, 1991	906

Season 10 (1992)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Prod. Code
83	1	Crumhorn Strikes Back	February 6, 1992	1001
84	2	Ants, Trees, And Whoops-A-Daisy	February 13, 1992	1002
85	3	Theres A Penfold in My Suit	February 20, 1992	1003
86	4	Rhyme And Punishment	February 27, 1992	1004
87	5	Pillow Fright	March 5, 1992	1005
88	6	Heavy Duty	March 12, 1992	1006
89	7	The Intergalactic 147	March 19, 1992	1007