Telebugs

The Telebugs
Genre	Animation
Created by	John M. Mills Elphin Lloyd-Jones
Voices of	Ron Moody Suzy Westerby
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	86
Production
Executive producer(s)	Anna Home
Producer(s)	Telemagination Telebug Enterprises
Running time	5 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV ABC
Original run	6 January 1986 – 16 December 1987

The Telebugs is a cartoon from the 1980s about the adventures of three robots with televisions for heads.

Overview

The robots' names are C.H.I.P. (Coordinated Hexadecimal Information Processor), S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. (Solar Activated Micro Automated Non-inTerference Hearing Apparatus) and B.U.G. (Binary Unmanned Gamma camera) - who were accompanied by a flying video pack called M.I.C. (Mobile Independent Camera). They were invented by Professor Brainstrain (who is also known as Pwofessor Bwainstwain, owing to his unfortunate speech impediment) to stop enemies such as Baron Bullybyte, Magna, Angel Brain, Zudo Bug and Arcadia, whilst working as reporters for a TV executive named Mr McStarch.

A total of 86 episodes were produced by Telemagination for Telebug Enterprises and broadcast on Children's ITV in the UK from 1986–1987.

It has also aired on ABC TV in Australia.

The series also aired on GBC TV in Gibraltar, where it regularly served as a filler during children's programming in the 6:30 - 7:30pm slot during the mid to late 1980s.

In the 1990s the show was sold to HIT Entertainment but this time, the name was changed to The Gigglebytes.

Voice cast

• All the male characters were voiced by Ron Moody (except for Bug) and the female characters (also including Bug) were voiced by Suzy Westerby.

Transmission guide

• Series 1: 26 editions from 6 January 1986 - 10 February 1986
• Series 2: 40 editions from 10 November 1986 - 16 January 1987
• Series 3: 20 editions from 17 November 1987 - 16 December 1987

External links

• Telebugs at the Internet Movie Database