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Also known as 'Knobbel (Netherlands) Directed by Martin Pullen Narrated by Bernard Cribbins Final episode date 27 September 1983 Network ITV Voice Bernard Cribbins | 7/10 IMDb Genre Children's television Voices of Bernard Cribbins First episode date 5 July 1983 Composer Daryl Runswick Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Written by Ruth BoswellGregory Stewart Similar The Shoe People, The Blunders, Huxley Pig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moschops the fiercest dinosaur
Moschops is a stop motion-animated children's television series produced by FilmFair, and broadcast on ITV in 1983.
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The characters in Moschops are designed by Sue Marke. All of the cast are prehistoric animals, except for Flower, who is the world's first flower.
The dinosaur characters' names imply their species or genus. The title character, Moschops, is a young therapsid of the genus Moschops; Ally is a theropod of the genus Allosaurus; Grandfather Diplodocus is a sauropod of the genus Diplodocus; Mrs. Kerry is a ceratopsid of the genus Triceratops; Uncle Rex is a Tyrannosaurus rex; and Mr. Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur of the genus Ichthyosaurus.
In the series, Moschops and Ally are friends. They live in a cave with Grandfather Diplodocus and Uncle Rex.
From 1984 to 1985, Omroepvereniging VARA, the Dutch public broadcasting network, broadcast a Dutch-dubbed version titled Knobbel. Channel 4 retransmitted Moschops in 1988.
Moschops the first flower
Moschops in print
For a short time after the series aired, Pippin featured a Moschops comic strip.
Purnell Publishers of Bristol published eight small picture books based on the television programme: Moschops and the Fierceness Lesson (1983), Moschops and the Mystery (1983), Moschops and the Surprise (1983), Moschops Digs a Hole (1983), Moschops and the Sneezes (1983), Moschops Plays Football (1983), Moschops' Kite (1984), and Moschops' Birthday (1984).
Other Moschops books include Moschops Annual (1983), Moschops Playtime Book (1983), and Moschops Dot-to-Dot (1984).