Potamus Park

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Potamus Park is a British pre-school television programme that ran on CITV in the United Kingdom between 1995 and 2002, and on the Disney Channel in the United States in 2005. The show centred on a small family of hippopotamuses, Herbie, Hippy, Hazel and Hinkley, this show was sponsored by Hippo Fromage Frais and was filmed at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, England.^[1]

Characters[]

Characters featured included Ticker, (a bird,) Got To Guess, (a blue creature that used sign language to communicate) and Mindy and Mo (two Moles who live in a water well and use a bucket as a lift whenever the hippopotamuses need help). Every episode was introduced by three anthropomorphic flowers, who would explain whatever is to come or what may have been happening in the episode.

Series 1 - (1996)[]

1. Pleased To Meet You (By Paul Cole) - 3 January 1996
2. How Does Your Garden Grow? (By Paul Cole) - 10 January 1996
3. Litter Bug (By Paul Cole) - 17 January 1996
4. Over The Counter (By Paul Cole) - 24 January 1996
5. Recipe For Success (By Paul Cole) - 31 January
6. Name That Tune ? 7 - February 1996
7. Do It Yourself (By Paul Cole) 14 - February 1996
8. Too Hot For Hippos ? 21 - February 1996
9. Happy Hippos ? 28 - February 1996
10. Crazy Golf (By Paul Endacott) 6 - March 1996
11. This Is Where We Live ? 10 - September 1996
12. Gone Fishing ? 17 - September 1996
13. Spring Clean ? 24 - January 1996
14. Let's Pretend ? 1 - October 1996
15. Picture This ? 8 - October 1996
16. Hungry Hippos (By Wayne Jackman) 15 - October 1995
17. I Spy (By Nigel Crowle) 22 - October 1996
18. Keeping Fit (By Paul Cole) 29 - October 1996
19. Nothing Doing (By Peter Corey) 5 - November 1996
20. You Must Be Joking (By Peter Corey) 12 - November 1996
21. Secrets (By Wayne Jackman) 19 - November 1996
22. Nice To Be Nice (By Paul Cole) 26 - November 1996
23. Got To Guess Goes Missing (By Wayne Jackman) 3 - December 1996
24. Ticker Takes Off (By David Treloar) 10 - December 1996
25. The Show Must Go On (By Peter Corey) 17 - December 1996

Series 2 - (1997)[]

1. Dressing Up ? 7 - January 1997
2. Things That Go Bump In The Night ? 4 - February 1997
3. Every Mole Has His Day ? 11 - February 1997
4. Lonely Bird ? 18 - February 1997
5. I Talk To The Trees (Paul Cole) 25 - February 1997
6. Bedtime Story (Paul Cole) 4 - March 1997
7. Buried Treasure (Paul Cole) 11 - Arch 1997
8. Mums Day Off (Paul Cole) 18 - March 1997
9. Home Again (Paul Cole) 25 - March 1997
10. Bookworm (Paul Cole) 1 - April 1997
11. Where Shall We Go ? 4 - September 1997
12. Turn and Turn About ? 11 - September 1997
13. If At First ? 18 - September 1997
14. Bits and Bobs ? 25 - September 1997
15. We Have No Bananas ? 2 - October 1997
16. Abracadabra ? 9 - October 1997
17. Wash Day Blues ? 16 - October 1997
18. If Only ? 23 - October 1997
19. Doctor Doctor ? 30 - October 1997
20. Do Your Best ? 6 - November 1997
21. Hip Hippo Ray Day (By Paul Cole) 13 - November 1997
22. Different (By Nigel Plaskitt) 20 - November 1997
23. Ticker Tells All (By Paul Cole) 27 - November 1997
24. Early One Morning (By Paul Cole) 4 - December 1997
25. Table Manners ? 11 - December 1997

Series 3 - (1997-1998)[]

1. Invitations To The Dance (by Paul Cole) 18 - December 1997
2. Episode 2 ? 6 - January 1998
3. Episode 3 ? 8 - January 1998
4. Episode 4 ? 13 - January 1998
5. Episode 5 ? 15 - January 1998
6. Episode 6 ? 20 - January 1998
7. Episode 7 ? 22 - January 1998
8. Episode 8 ? 27 - January 1998
9. Episode 9 ? 29 - January 1998
10. Episode 10 ? 3 - February 1998
11. Episode 11 ? 5 - February 1998
12. Episode 12 ? 10 - February 1998
13. Episode 13 ? 12 - February 1998
14. Episode 14 ? 17 - February 1998
15. Episode 15 ? 19 - February 1998
16. Episode 16 ? 24 - February 1998
17. Episode 17 ? 26 - February 1998
18. Wool Trouble ? 3 - March 1998
19. Episode 19 ? 5 - March 1998
20. Bubble Trouble ? 10 - March 1998
21. Episode 21 ? 12 - March 1998
22. Episode 22 ? 17 - March 1998
23. Episode 23 ? 19 - March 1998
24. Episode 24 ? 24 - March 1998
25. Episode 25 ? 26 - March 1998

Video Tapes[]

Various episodes of the series were released on VHS by Carlton Video in the United Kingdom.

Trivia[]

Carlton Home Video issued many video cassettes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Although the television series was genuinely well received, ITV decided to cut the series in 1999 due to the rival show Bananas In Pyjamas, which received higher ratings. Even though the series ended in 1999, CITV continued to air repeated television programmes into the early 2000s.

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