The Gingerbread Man (TV series)
A stop-motion series about a gingerbread man's night-time adventures.
The Gingerbread Man is a British stop-motion children's show. It follows a gingerbread man and his friends, who come alive on a kitchen dresser each night after the house's owners, called the Big Ones, go to sleep. David Wood wrote the series, adapting it from his own two-act musical play that first appeared in 1976. FilmFair and Central Independent Television co-produced the show in 1991, and it aired on ITV the following year.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Children's television series
- Creator
- David Wood
- Director
- Martin Pullen
- Creative director
- Alan Murphy (art director)
- Voices
- Andrew Sachs; Jacqueline Clarke, David Wood
- Narrator
- Anton Rodgers (uncredited)
- Composer
- Peter Pontzen; David Wood
- Country
- United Kingdom
Facts from the source article.
Characters
The kitchen dresser is home to a gingerbread man cookie and his companions. Mr Salt, a salt grinder with a sailor’s manner, often talks about sailing after being woken. Miss Pepper, a pepper mill, regularly asks Mr Salt to twist her handle. Herr Von Cuckoo is the wooden cuckoo bird from the kitchen’s cuckoo clock. Old Bag, a grumpy tea bag, resides in a teapot on the dresser’s top shelf. Sleek the Mouse speaks with a Brooklyn gangster accent and is perpetually hungry, searching for food. The Big Ones are an unseen married couple with children who live in the house. Andrew Sachs provides the voices for the Gingerbread Man, Mr Salt, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Sleek. Jacqueline Clarke voices Miss Pepper, Old Bag, and the female Big One. David Wood voices the male Big One.
Home media releases
In the 1990s, PolyGram Video put out at least nine episodes of the series on VHS in the UK. The first five episodes appeared on a tape called The Gingerbread Man, Volume 1 in 1992, while episodes six through nine were collected on Volume 2: Further Adventures that same year. A portion of the series later turned up on the 2001 VHS compilation All Together Now from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. That same company then issued the first five episodes on a Region 2 DVD on 12 April 2004, distributed by PolyGram Video and Channel 5. Abbey Home Media followed with a DVD of the first six episodes in 2006, and a second disc containing the remaining seven episodes in 2007.
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