Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 1983 | Written by Rod Hull Original language(s) English Presented by Rod Hull Cast Rod Hull | |
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Genre Children's television series Similar | ||
Emu s all live pink windmill show s1e1 1984 full episode
Emu was an anarchic British television puppet of Rod Hull, and after successfully appearing on a number of variety shows, he was given his own television series on the BBC, then on ITV.
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- Emu s all live pink windmill show s1e1 1984 full episode
- Emu s world s4e2 1983 full episode
- Emus Broadcasting Company
- Transmissions
- BBC Specials
- Rod and Emus Saturday Specials BBC
- The Rod Emu Show BBC
- Emus World
- Transmission
- Emus All Live Pink Windmill Show
- EMU TV
- References
Emu s world s4e2 1983 full episode
Emu's Broadcasting Company
Emu's Broadcasting Company (1975–1980) was a children's television series featuring Rod Hull and emu running their own television station, which parodied many BBC series of the time. Supporting Rod Hull and his Emu puppet were Billy Dainty who played a James Bond pastiche called Captain Perceval and Barbara New who played the tea lady.
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BBC Specials
Rod and Emu's Saturday Specials (BBC)
The Rod & Emu Show (BBC)
Emu's World
In 1981, Emu and Rod Hull were offered additional series by the newly awarded ITV franchise Central Independent Television, which also introduced a green witch called Grotbags (played by the singer and comedian Carol Lee Scott), with Rod and Emu living in a pink windmill.
The premise of the show was simple: each week Grotbags threatened and tried to steal Emu so that once captured (in Grotbags' own words) she would be able to use its "special powers" to control all the "brats" in the world.
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Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show
The Series morphed into Pink Windmill Show and carried on from Emu's World, but the format also featured viewer phone-ins, as well as a segment in Grotbags' grotto, based on the format of the "take the money or open the box" segment of Take Your Pick! where selected members of the audience whom Grotbags had "taken prisoner" were offered the chance to either take a selection of prizes or exchange them for either stellar prizes or booby prizes contained in a numbered mini-cauldron which they had selected. Grotbags would react with delight when contestants won a booby prize or rejected a star prize and with fury when the reverse occurred. There was also lots of singing and dancing, and this show achieved enormous popularity during its early years. The show is probably now most fondly remembered for Rod Hull's catchphrase "There's somebody at the door, there's somebody at the door" every time a visitor rang the doorbell (which 'sneezed' loudly when pressed) at the Pink Windmill's entrance. In addition, a segment from the first episode, in which the "Pink Windmill Kids" rhythmically introduce themselves before launching into a rendition of "Can't Stop the Music", became an Internet meme in late 2016.
The series first aired in 1984 and was televised live. A second series which followed in 1985 was also broadcast live. Thereafter, the series was pre-recorded (until it was eventually cancelled in 1988) airing simply as Emu's Pink Windmill Show. All series were produced and directed by Colin Clews for Central Independent Television and broadcast from the now-defunct East Midlands Television Centre in Nottingham.
In 2017, the Pink Windmill Kids from the show reunited to perform one of their dance segments from the series for 2017's Comic Relief after the original video went viral in December 2016.
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Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show
Emu's Pink Windmill Show
Emu's Wide World
Emu's World
E.M.U – TV
Rod and Emu did have one more television series with Central Independent Television in 1989 with Emu TV, which broadcast for one series. The Series follows the same format as his BBC series, in which Emu operated his own TV station and broadcast clips of telly programmes which he would produce and broadcast.
Episode 5 of this series features future England football player Emile Heskey.