8.6 /10 1 Votes
8.7/10 Filmweb Starring Richard Pearson No. of series 1 Running time 20mins Final episode date 19 June 1990 Program creator Brian Trueman | 8.4/10 IMDb Created by Brian Trueman Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 13 First episode date 27 March 1990 Number of episodes 13 Networks ITV, Thames Television | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cast David Jason, Peter Sallis, Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Ian Carmichael Similar A Tale of Two Toads, The Wind in the Willows, The Willows In Winter, Mole's Christmas, Victor & Hugo: Bunglers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oh, Mr. Toad was a television spin-off from the 1990s stop motion animation series The Wind in the Willows. The show was animated by Cosgrove Hall and broadcast on the ITV network. It then became Series 5 of the main series, when it came onto DVD. Despite having a different title, it really differed very little from the previous series, except that every episode focused primarily on Toad, whereas other characters would often have been at the centre of the episodes of The Wind in the Willows.
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Main characters
Recurring characters
Theme song
On their original transmission in the UK, the episodes in the series opened with the same opening as the " A Tale of two Toads" feature -length special, and as the series is primarily about the exploits of Toad, the theme tune is David Jason singing Toad’s own panegyric to himself, as found in Kenneth Grahame's original book:
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed. But none of them know half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad! The animals sat in the Ark, Their tears in torrents flowed. Who was it said, “There’s land ahead”? Mr Toad! The world has held great heroes, As history books have showed; But never a name went down to fame Compared with that of Toad! Intelligent Mr. Toad! Encouraging Mr. Toad!However for overseas broadcast (and when released on the DVD set 'Wind In the Willows: Complete Collection') the opening titles and music were changed for those featured in the previous series of The Wind in the Willows.