Bananaman
Title card
Genre	Superhero Comedy
Created by	Steve Bright
Starring	Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden Bill Oddie Jill Shilling
Theme music composer	Dave Cooke
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	40[1]
Production
Producer	Trevor Bond
Running time	5 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC
Release	3 October 1983 (1983-10-03) – 4 March 1986 (1986-15-04) (reruns 1986–1999)

Bananaman is a British animated comedy series which ran from 1983 to 1986. It was based on the comic strip character Bananaman and each of the show's roughly five-minute episodes featured the voices of The Goodies (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie).^[2][3]

Parts of the character were changed for the series: he was now called Eric Twinge (rather than Eric Wimp), had a distinctive banana-shaped hairstyle rather than punk stubble, and had a love interest (only when transformed) in the form of Fiona, a newsreader.^[4][5]

When Danger Mouse first aired on Nickelodeon in America Bananaman was shown after it to round out the show to a half hour.

Cast

• Tim Brooke-Taylor as Eric
• Graeme Garden as Bananaman
• Bill Oddie as Crow
• Jill Shilling as Fiona

Written by Bernie Kay. Produced by Trevor Bond. Directed by Terry Ward.

Series guide

• Series 1: 3 October^[6] – 11 November 1983^[7] - 12 episodes
• Series 2: 4 October^[8] – 19 December 1984^[9] - 13 episodes
• Series 3: 7 January – 15 April 1986^[10] - 15 episodes

"Memory Lane" episode from series 2 was not broadcast until June 1988 but was made alongside series 2.

Reception

Bananaman was a popular cartoon and is one of the most well-known British superheroes. Taken from the DC Thomson comic entitled Nutty, it was made into a TV animated series of 40 five-minute episodes by Terry Ward of Flicks Films Ltd.^[11]

References

External links

• Bananaman at IMDb
• Episode guide