Button Moon

I can safely say that Button Moon was my most favourite piece of children's television ever to have graced our great screens. All I remember from my childhood is sitting close to the TV and watching every single (short but worth it) episode and dreaming of flying off to my own big button in the sky... and it was all low budget too! forget your expensive production line 'toons that kids are entertained with nowadays, nothing beats a baked bean tin and the contents of your kitchen drawer! Even years later, I can still say it is incredibly entertaining, as while drunk at the beginning of my uni years myself and the guys next door lay giggling in my room watching the amusing vacuum cleaner and his "vvmmvvvmvvvvvm" speech, completely in hysterics at the wobbly jelly, our friends teddy, rag doll and lest not forget the army of bottles! Trippy as it was, button moon RULED - as it still does!

This was on of the oddest kids programmes from the early 80's. Mr Spoon (a wooden spoon with a big nose) and his wife and child lived under the gaze of Button Moon (a large yellow button) which they went up to in the space ship that our hero Mr Spoon had made. Basically it was hand held wooden spoons over a black velvet backdrop being moved about with a narration , and i know that i was too old to be watching it when i did but it was hypnotic. A very strange one indeed that has to be seen to be believed.

A firm favourite of mine during my nursery school years, 'Button Moon' had a large following of fans in those who were tots in the early Eighties. It was a very low-budget show with the characters were put together using wooden spoons and tin cans but it worked when complimented with simple story-telling and a solid musical score.

There was something very surreal about 'Button Moon' that I loved as a child (although I could see why people now link it to a drugs' trip!) but it was a show that proves you don't need high-quality CGI to keep small children (and adults!) entertained. Upon viewing it recently, after a friend bought the DVD, it certainly brought back memories and would no doubt be equally as popular with today's toddlers as it was with kids in the Eighties.

What a fantastic show this was... I was such a fan as a toddler! I loved that theme tune and thought "I want to go to Button Moon!" Where lives the most annoying sounding doll! and a teddy bear that sounds like a west country cider drinker... POETRY in MOTION!!!

I watched this a couple of days ago for the 1st time in like 30 years ! I only vaguely remember it as a child - I was born in 1982 - I guess the theme tune was the most memorable part !

I forgot how aggressively D.I.Y this was ! The main characters have a combination of dishes for heads, spoons for arms and bottles for torsos, while the other characters are less humanoid and more bizarre; literally just bottles/containers, clothes, even vacuum cleaners, possibly with eyes glued on ! Background props consist of brooms for trees, a funnel on top of a 'Heinz' can for a spaceship, and most essentially a button for a moon. Kind of the same degree of randomness, eccentricity and full-on D.I.Y as the props in The Young Ones !

The stories are simple, naive and charming; appropriate for younger viewers yet cute and funny for all ages. The theme tune - sung by Sandra Dickinson of 2Point4 children fame - is cute and 'magical'. The overall aesthetic is obviously ultra-kitsch, but in a charming, vibrant and idiosyncratic kind of way; you always recognize a Button Moon set !

Overall, a wholesome '80s classic that appealed to all ages, and probably still does; I was reintroduced to this through DVD !