Wtf was this 80's kids cartoon called...

[KatoPotato]

Okay, I apologise In advance as this is going to be super vague, But I know the power of mumsnet is strong and it's Saturday night.

Here's what I can remember

Don't know if this will work

Bump the elephant

Storybook international catchy isn't it?

@hugoagogo
So strange. I would have said I didn't know that show but the lyrics you quote are in my memory.
I so wish I remembered more. (Of life. Not necessarily that program)

Wattoo wattoo has some funny looking birds in. I think they were geese. I can't remember the theme tune though. Just remember it used to be on before or after The Smurfs, which was my favourite.

Oh wow how were those lyrics locked in my memory?

I think there’s might have been an episode of blood and honey where Tony Robinson told a story from down a well. But I’m not sure that’s the one you’re thinking of.

Was Trapdoor the one down the well?

Woody the Woodpecker?

Actually the well one might be Tales from fat tulip’s garden.

No somany trapdoor was down a trapdoor. Tony was defo down a well. I remember the bricks. I'm not positive it was Tony Robinson though.

Just remembering Pink Panther too although that’s obv not what the OP is thinking of.

Does anyone remember Barnaby the Bear.

I loved it. The theme tune went:

Barnaby the Bear's my name,
Never call me Jack or Jane..."

I can't remember anything else. Possibly he was a trapeze artist in a circus one time??

No one ever mentions it in this kind of thread.

Yes it was well done @RafaIsTheKingOfClay!

Shoe people

@zen1 Have you read the script of the never-made final episode of Dungeons and Dragons? Would recommend it to anyone who hasn't!

Paw Paw Bears?

I loved The Family Ness, The Ratties, Dangermouse, Chorlton and The Wheelies,
He-Man and She-Ra, Godzilla...

Somanymistakes yes! I sang that just yesterday after dinner. It just popped into my head randomly!

Barnaby the Bear's my name
Never call me Jack or James
I will sing my way to fame
Barnaby the Bear's my name
Birds taught me to sing
When they took me to their king

I think I made up the rest! There was a circus involved but it was a looking time ago.

Long not looking!

Binkey Bill

Yes I remember Barnaby the Bear

How about Marine Boy and

Josie and the pussycats

Ah viva I was just about to say I can't believe no-one has mentioned The Family-Ness!
You can knock it, you can rock it
You can go to Timbuktu
But you'll never find a Nessy in the zoo
You may see an anaconda, a giraffe or kangaroo
But you'll never etc.

The 80s was a great time for cartoons, loved so many of the ones mentioned.

What was that weird programme with some woodland creatures in an abbey or something?! Badger type animals - and one of them was called Brother Cedric? Or am I confusing the Raccoons and Farthing Wood???

And looking Blinky Bill up online the show has a totally different theme tune to the one I watched, which started "Yahoo, didgeridoo, Blinky Bill and all his crew"

I have no idea op but I like your thread!

Many, many years ago when the World Wide Web was all fields I couldn’t get anyone who remembered a cartoon I used to watch. It was called Gideon and featured a duck/swan. I did a lot of AOL searching and found nothing. No one I knew had ever heard of it.

Eventually I emailed channel 4 and got a lovely email back. I was not making it up. Apparently it was loosely based on bible stories