Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
Writer: Wayne Jackman, Jane Bassett, Pierre Hollins, Andy Cunningham
Director: Claire Winyard
Producer: Judy Whitfield, Greg Childs
Mousey
Simon Bodger / Badger
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2 episodes
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8 episodes
Simon Bodger must win a cookery contest to get the Chef's job at Troff's Nosherama.
Runtime: 15 minBadger ends up inside a cake.
Runtime: 15 minThe Health Inspector pays a visit after reports of badgers roaming around the kitchens.
Runtime: 15 minMr Troff decides the Nosherama needs a new Welcome sign. Mr Troff thinks Mavis is the artist, but in actual fact it is Badger!
Runtime: 15 minMr Troff's Australian auntie comes to visit the café.
Runtime: 15 minAdrian Loud Warbler invites Mavis to lunch to discuss a singing job, unfortunately he takes her to the Nosherama!
Runtime: 15 minSimon is in danger of being replaced as chef at the café when a salesman shows Mr. Troff a new 'Shove-a-Chef'.
Runtime: 15 minBodger and Badger are left in charge of the restaurant, but things don't quite go according to plan. Mashed potato mayhem ensues.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
12 episodes
Job-hunting leads Simon to Lesby Avenue junior school. Will he get the job as handyman?
Runtime: 15 minWill magic be enough when Miss Moon sees Badger? Class Four come to the rescue.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Trout commissions Bodger (and Badger) to make a cake of the mayor to commemorate his visit to the school.
Runtime: 15 minThe headmistress wants a school skeleton. But when she plans to cancel a school outing to pay for it, she gets right under Badger's skin.
Runtime: 15 minMr Roberts is called to the school to get rid of the small furry creature (Badger, of course) that has been spotted in the kitchen.
Runtime: 15 minThe headmistress's birthday cake from the cake shop mysteriously disappears shortly after Badger opens it, so Simon makes a miniature mashed potato statue of the headmistress as a replacement. Then Miss Moon spots this and thinks the fairies have cast a spell on Mrs Trout...
Runtime: 15 minBodger and Badger attempt to repair a wonky window in the headmistress's office, but without much success.
Runtime: 15 minClass Four are not impressed with Miss Moon's pixie prancing in PE class. But the replacement, Mr. Crusher, is a lot worse.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Trout stays behind in school to change into her costume for the Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball - a burglar's outfit. At the same time, a real burglar breaks in to steal the school trophies. Cue lots of confusion for Bodger and Badger...
Runtime: 15 minMavis comes to visit Simon and the school, and everyone is excited to have a pop star on the premises - even Mrs Trout.
Runtime: 15 minAt the end of term, Bodger and Badger look back to some of the adventures they've had at Letsby Avenue.
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12 episodes
Mrs Trout writes, directs and stars in the school play. But will everything be alright on the night? Not likely with Bodger and Badger about.
Runtime: 15 minBadger decides to enter Mrs Trout's poetry competition.
Runtime: 15 minMr Valentino, the school governor, comes to the school to tell Mrs Trout that Miss Moon is to be awarded a prize for not missing a day's school. Mrs Trout is not happy!
Runtime: 15 minMiss Moon gets a thump on the head and a new view of life but all Mrs Trout gets is mash in the mush.
Runtime: 15 minAs Mrs Trout has been sent back to teacher's school to learn how to read, the new headmistress arrives, and brings along her loathsome nephew who is to be the school handyman. Bodger seems to be out of a job again.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Bogart and Simon set up a communications system for the school.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Bogart is determined to make Class 4 sit a difficult test. However with so many interruptions (mostly from Bodger who is trying to have a fire drill), will it ever happen?
Runtime: 15 minThe Head will stop at nothing to get hold of Simon's competition winnings, even posing as her own hard-up identical twin sister!
Runtime: 15 minMiss Moon has agreed to look after her neighbour's baby for the day.
Runtime: 15 minBadger is having a bath because it's time for the class photograph. When the photographer is cancelled, Miss Moon asks Simon to help out.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
9 episodes
Bodger starts a new job as handyman in a large amusement park, where no pets are allowed. But Badger is determined to join Simon, and together the pair meet Holly who hangs about a lot in the park - for free - because her mum works in the kitchens. All seems well until Badger realises that he hasn't seen ANY mashed potato in the park.
Runtime: 15 minMr Beasley tries to catch Badger, who is at the theme park, but is confused as Bodger, Holly and Badger have great fun tricking him.
Runtime: 15 minBadger makes friends with some unusual animals, the tapirs.
Runtime: 15 minBodger fixes the elephant's trunk and Badger has trouble with mashed potato.
Runtime: 15 minBodger dresses up as a knight, while Badger tries his paw at flying and Holly rescues him.
Runtime: 15 minMr Beasley is issued with a new uniform, but Bodger manages to ruin most of it with the help of Badger and some mashed potato.
Runtime: 15 minHolly wins a watch at Bodger and Badger's unconventional ball tossing stall, but Beasley takes it from her. Badger thinks of a novel way of getting it back...
Runtime: 15 minBeasley sits on a painted bench and tries to repremand Bodger for not following orders, but instead Head Office let Bodger run the ice cream cart.
Runtime: 15 minBeasley has finally mastered a plan to catch Badger...
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
13 episodes
Bodger and Badger are living in a new flat. They think they're alone until Badger makes friends with a mouse who lives under the floorboards.
Runtime: 15 minBadger doesn't let a little thing like floorboards stop him from getting to Mousey's house. They've got to come up.
Runtime: 15 minAfter their new washing machine blows up, Simon and Badger have to go to the launderette, where Badger manages to cause mayhem as well.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Simon Bodger paints a shop sign back to front, Badger finds a quick solution with an electric saw.
Runtime: 15 minSimon Bodger has trouble with burglars, Boss and Courtney, but Badger and the Egyptian statue foil their plans.
Runtime: 15 minWhen the rent money goes missing Simon and Badger are told to move out - nothing can save them, except Mousey!
Runtime: 15 minSimon's old school friend comes to stay - the greedy Raymond Tompkins - and Badger declares war!
Runtime: 15 minSimon rations the mashed potato, so Badger invents a twin brother in order to get double his portion.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Simon decides to borrow a cat to get rid of the mouse in the house, Badger and Mousey have to find a way of showing him he was imagining things.
Runtime: 15 minBadger wants to go to the seaside but the weather forecast is bad, so he decides to make his own seaside - in the bathroom!
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey trick Simon into believing that Martians are under the floorboards.
Runtime: 15 minBadger makes a huge amount of mashed potato and then has to find places to store it. Then Simon's computer goes wrong after Badger and Mousey have a go on it.
Runtime: 15 minDuring a race with Mousey, Badger bangs his head and loses his memory. Mousey helps him to remember by reminding him of all the adventures they have had.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
12 episodes
Simon Bodger and Badger come face to face with their new landlady, the fearsome Mrs. Dribelle.
Runtime: 15 minElton sees badgers when he's hit with a frying pan!
Runtime: 15 minBadger finds that Simon's cactus very amusing as it has been planted in a potty. Then an unexpected bump on the head sends Badger bonkers.
Runtime: 15 minSimon thinks he has won the lottery, Mousey has to give up her new bedside table and lamp, and Simon regrets a phone call to Mrs Dribelle.
Runtime: 15 minIn an attempt to get Simon Bodger out of her house Mrs Dribelle pretends to have a sick mother who needs his room!
Runtime: 15 minFluffykin's birthday cake is delivered to Bodger and Badger's address. Badger is determined to prove that the cake is not a real cat, and ends up destroying the cake.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Badger gets stuck in his badger flap, Bodger decides it's high time he went on a mash free diet with a healthy dose of exercise.
Runtime: 15 minAt long last, Simon tries to get Badger a bed of his very own.
Runtime: 15 minBodger loses his rent money and as Badger tries to help him someone ends up with mash on their face.
Runtime: 15 minSimon gets a letter from the library saying that he has an overdue book. Unfortunately Badger lent it to Mousey who converted it into a mattress.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle and Elton have some secret plans, but to put them into action they have to trick Simon into leaving his flat. How will they do this, and will their surprise work?
Runtime: 15 minBefore Badger and Mousey set off on their round-the-world trip, they take a look back at some of the adventures they have had this year.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
25 episodes
Someone threatens to kidnap Mrs Dribelle's cat Fluffykins. Bodger agrees to look after the cat while she finds a detective, so Mousey leaves home in protest.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle has a sneaky new tenant, Alec Smart, who always has plenty of dishonest money-making schemes. When he notices Simon's expensive camera, he tricks the handyman into swapping it for some false stain remover.
Runtime: 15 minMr Smart decides to buy Mrs Dribelle's house using money he got by photocopying £50 notes. Badger tries to cheer Simon up with practical jokes.
Runtime: 15 minMr Smart is up to his tricks again - trying to make money from Badger's 'mash painting'.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle's garden gnomes are going missing.
Runtime: 15 minWill it be wedding bells for Mrs Dribelle and Mr Smart? Not if Badger and Mousey have anything to do with it.
Runtime: 15 minBadger invents World Badger Day - a time when everyone has to be nice to all badgers (and mice).
Runtime: 15 minBadger gets a new friend when Vicky moves in upstairs and, what's more, she loves mashed potato!
Runtime: 15 minBadger helps Vicky write a song for the radio, but the words don't come out as expected.
Runtime: 15 minVicky goes to the market and gets a drumming job where she has to dress up as a gorilla, so Bodger and Badger go to the market, but the gorilla outfit annoys Mrs Dribelle.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Mousey chews through Mrs Dribelle's best dress, there's trouble ahead.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Mrs Dribelle turns up unexpectedly, Vicky's drums go into the shower with her!
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey celebrate Christmas and remember some of their adventures this year.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle moves into the flat upstairs and Simon sticks her wallpaper on with mashed potato by mistake. Then Badger and Mousey pretend to be ghosts to frighten her.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle tries to make Vicky work on her last afternoon, but Vicky has other plans.
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey get things mixed up, including Mrs Dribelle's beauty cream and some mashed potato.
Runtime: 15 minBodger and Mousey try to trap a burglar.
Runtime: 15 minSimon's shower isn't working but Mrs Dribelle is so wrapped up in her dancing he has to use her shower while she's out.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Dribelle stands for election to the town council - but will anyone vote for her?
Runtime: 15 minAfter Simon inherits a grandfather clock, Badger and Mousey decide to turn it into a cuckoo clock.
Runtime: 15 minWhen Badger can't sleep, Mousey suggests that he count sheep.
Runtime: 15 minSimon gets a letter telling him the video he sent of himself reading poems is going to be on the programme 'Say Cheese', but he runs into problems trying to watch it on TV.
Runtime: 15 minBadger has a visit from his Italian friend, a fellow badger who enjoys hurling spaghetti.
Runtime: 15 minSimon enters a pottery competition, but he doesn't expect Mousey to be in the pot.
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey travel back in time to relive some of their favourite adventures.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
15 episodes
Bodger, Badger and Mousey are moving to the seaside to run the Seagull's Rest Hotel. But they get a big surprise when they find out who their new neighbour is.
Runtime: 15 minMr Smart tries to steal Bodger's hotel guests - but Badger and Mousey have other plans and use spots of red paint to get them back.
Runtime: 15 minMs Peake arrives for a nice quiet holiday at the Seagull's Rest.
Runtime: 15 minWhen the trifle starts jumping around the kitchen, Simon and Ms Peake think it has been taken over by aliens - but Badger knows better.
Runtime: 15 minCan Badger save Mousey when she sails out to sea in Ms Peake's new hat?
Runtime: 15 minBadger leads Ms Peake and Mr Smart on a wild-goose chase as they hunt for buried treasure.
Runtime: 15 minSimon and Millie persuade Ms Peake to enter the fancy dress competition on the last day of her holiday at the Seagull's Rest.
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Simon try to compete with Mr Smart's amazing garden decorations.
Runtime: 15 minBadger has his eye on Mr Smart's potatoes - and when Smartypants cheats Simon out of 20 pounds, Badger puts more than his eye on the potatoes.
Runtime: 15 minBadger meets China, a lost dog, and invites him to stay.
Runtime: 15 minThe Seagull's Rest is taken over by robots who sound uncannily like Badger and Mousey.
Runtime: 15 minWho do you think holds the record for making the biggest mess with mashed potato?
Runtime: 15 minIs Mrs Bobbins's toy bear really a toy bear - or is it Badger in disguise?
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey cause chaos when they think Mr Tucknott has stolen Mrs Bobbins's money - but he is only trying to help.
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey form their own fire brigade and rig up fire extinguishers in the hotel.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
14 episodes
Bodger and Badger meet the new tourist information officer, Mrs S. Melly.
Runtime: 15 minMrs Melly leaves The Seagull's Rest (Bodger's B&B) out of the Good Hotel Guide, so Bodger decides to do his own advertising.
Runtime: 15 minSimon wins some baking ingredients and enters the Puddleford cake competition.
Runtime: 15 minMr Gripper falls in love with tourist officer Mrs Melly. Plus Badger and Mousey bottle mashed potato soup, some of which ends up in a sun tan lotion bottle.
Runtime: 15 minChina the dog comes to stay and Simon ends up covered with baked beans and mashed potato.
Runtime: 15 minBadger, Mousey and China make a time machine to go backwards and forwards in time and Mrs Melly gets covered in mash. All for the commemoration of Queen Elizabeth's visit.
Runtime: 15 minBadger and Mousey put together a museum with exhibits for all the adventures they've had in the last few months.
Runtime: 15 min