benjmarshall

This was a strange programme, with basic animation but nevertheless there was something about Bod that kept me amused as a kid. "Here comes Bod" the narrator would say, we'd hear a cheeky sounding theme tune played on a piccolo and see a boy with a bald head and an evil face wearing a yellow dress walking towards us! Yes really!! Bod also had 4 friends: Aunt Flo, Frank the Postman, Farmer Barleymow and PC Copper (each had their own theme tune - courtesy of Derek Griffiths)every episode they would do something like go to the Park, the Beach etc. Then at the end we saw them walking away into the distance hearing that mischievous sounding piccolo again. BUT!! At the end of some episodes we were treated to a story about a frog called Alberto who had an animal band, basically whatever the problem was the frog would get his band to play some music......and the problem was solved and frog was always rewarded with a milkshake. Finally we had a song and a game of snap before the end credits. All of this sounds insane, but I recently bought this on DVD and was relieved to find out that I am not mad and didn't dream any of this up. Also I enjoyed seeing it again after all this time and I can honestly say my slightly mocking tones are nothing but affectionate.

I was born in 1980 so don't remember the first ten years. I do remember this being set out in a few different ways. 1st: There was a hamster and a crow (puppets) who introduced the show, and we saw footage of kids with their parents doing the shopping, going to the library etc. With the animals doing the commentary. 2nd: There was a human presenter (think his name was Sam) with a puppet dragon called "Duncan" who were in a fake shop, but this memory is very sketchy. 3rd: 2 puppets called "Cosmo & Dibs" in a market with presenters like Gary Wilmott (I recall a crazy woman called Liz, who may have been Liz Smith! But again not sure) I think this was filmed locally (Birmingham) and had a reggaefied version of the theme by UB40. I need to see this again. 20 years is a LONG time.