Danger Mouse (2015 TV series)

Danger Mouse
Created by	Brian Cosgrove Mark Hall
Directed by	Robert Cullen
Voices of	Alexander Armstrong Kevin Eldon Stephen Fry Ed Gaughan Shauna Macdonald Dave Lamb
Narrated by	Dave Lamb
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	11–22 minutes
Production company(s)	FremantleMedia Kids & Family Entertainment Boulder Media
Distributor	FremantleMedia
Release
Original network	CBBC
Picture format	16:9 1080i
Original release	28 September 2015 – present
Chronology
Related shows	Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series and a continuation of the 1981 series with the same name. The series is produced by FremantleMedia with animation by Irish Boulder Media. Danger Mouse premiered on CBBC on 28 September 2015.^[1]

The series revolves around Danger Mouse, the "world's greatest secret agent", and his hamster sidekick Penfold, who protect the world from a variety of danger. With help from his boss Colonel K and the genius scientist Professor Squawkencluck, Danger Mouse is equipped to defeat his nemesis, Baron von Greenback.

Within three weeks of the series running, Danger Mouse achieved 2.4 million viewers and among the highest rated shows on CBBC.^[2]

Production

In 2013, FremantleMedia confirmed to Broadcast that a reboot of the series was being considered,^[3][4] and in June 2014 it was announced that a new series was being made for broadcast on CBBC in 2015.^[5] The reboot is produced by Boulder Media for FremantleMedia Kids. It is directed by Robert Cullen,^[6] with Brian Cosgrove, one of the original creators being a creative consultant.^[7] Alexander Armstrong and Kevin Eldon will be voicing Danger Mouse and Penfold, Dave Lamb will take the role of the narrator, whilst Stephen Fry and Ed Gaughan will take on the roles of Colonel K and Baron Greenback respectively.^[8] Armstrong's Pointless co-host Richard Osman will also be appearing in the series as Professor Strontium Jellyfishowitz.^[9] It was also announced that John Oliver would voice Dr Augustus P Crumhorn III and Lena Headey would voice new character Jeopardy Mouse.^[10] It will also be aired on ABC3 in Australia, and Netflix in the US.^[11] According to Eldon, the animation style is 'much the same as the original'.^[12] The series is animated in Toon Boom Harmony, as the animators thought that Flash was too limited.^[13]

Characters

Main characters

• Danger Mouse (voiced by Alexander Armstrong): The world's greatest secret agent. Supremely confident in his abilities, Danger Mouse's vanity sometimes leads him to take actions that unncessarily create risky situations.
• Ernest Penfold (voiced by Kevin Eldon): A hamster and Danger Mouse's sidekick. He has an obsession with jam sandwiches, to the point that he'll make copious quantities of jam when nervous.
• Colonel K (voiced by Stephen Fry): A Chinchilla who serves as Danger Mouse and Penfold's boss. In the episode "The Return of Danger K", it is revealed that the Colonel was once an agent himself called Danger K.
• Baron Silas von Greenback (voiced by Ed Gaughan): Criminal mastermind and Danger Mouse's arch enemy. Though Greenback was a mainstay of the 1981 series, in the 2015 series, the word "von" has been incorporated into his name. He was also given a German accent to match.
• Professor Squawkencluck (voiced by Shauna Macdonald): Chief scientist of the secret service and presumably the niece of the original version of the character from the original series. She gets annoyed with Danger Mouse when he doesn't pay attention to her, uses her inventions without her permission, or breaks/messes with her latest creation, to the point where she seems to view him as being incompetent.
• Stiletto Mafiosa (voiced by Dave Lamb): Greenback's Italian crow sidekick.
• The Narrator (voiced by Dave Lamb): As with the original series, The Narrator frequently breaks the Fourth Wall, interacting with both the viewer and the characters and often finds himself in danger from the episode's antagonist.

Recurring characters

• Nero (voiced by Marc Silk): Greenback's pet fluffy white caterpillar, whose intelligence and cunning is often underestimated.
• Pandaminion (voiced by Ed Gaughan): A minion of Greenback's.
• The Queen (voiced by Morwenna Banks)
• Dr. Loo-cifer (voiced by Kayvan Novak): An advanced robotic toilet gone rogue.
• Dawn/The Princess (voiced by Morwenna Banks): A young spoiled poodle who becomes powerful after her tiara comes into contact with personality-amplifying mind gel
• Quark (voiced by Ed Gaughan): An alien who tries to use DM in money-spinning schemes.
• Jeopardy Mouse (voiced by Lena Headey):^[10] The female American equivalent of Danger Mouse. Clad in a slick military jumpsuit, she performs her missions professionally and without fuss- but has a tendency to be overbearing and take herself too seriously.
• Snowman (voiced by Richard Ayoade):^[14] An embarrassingly inept living snowman with the ability to freeze things with his left arm and fire explosive carrots.
• Count Duckula (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) A stardom-obsessed vampire duck. He appears to be a mix of his classic counterpart from the original series and his vegetarian counterpart from his own spin-off series.
• Doctor Augustus P. Crumhorn III (voiced by John Oliver)

Other characters

• Big Head (voiced by Shauna Macdonald): Squawkencluck's defence computer turned bad.
• Birch Badboy (voiced by Richard Ayoade): A punk squirrel who tried to cause an outbreak of rudeness.
• Danger Toad: Greenback's heroic counterpart from the same dimension as Sinister Mouse.
• Evans (voiced by Paul Morgans): An extraterrestrial Welsh plant.
• Hysteria (voiced by Lindsey Russell): A super-villain snake.^[15]
• Ian (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker): DM's supposedly biggest fan who tried to "collect" DM and his allies.
• Isambard Kingkong Brunel (voiced by Kayvan Novak): A scientist monkey who comes up with impractical inventions. He once created a time machine to replace all useful inventions with his own.
• Ivana the Invisible: An invisible supervillain who allied with Badboy.
• Jimmy Camel: A camel chat show host.
• Lionel: A gigantic spider accidentally awakened by Penfold.
• Megahurtz (voiced by Kayvan Novak): A monster fron the HQ's training simulator.
• Professor Strontium Jellyfishowitz (voiced by Richard Osman)
• Santa Claus (voiced by Brian Blessed): The spirit of Christmas, depicted as a polar bear. Uses his laugh for just about anything (jolly, nervousness, etc.) and is reliant on his magic hat for delivering presents.
• Safety Mice: Robots created by Greenback as part of his ploy of being reformed.
• Sinister Mouse: An evil version of DM from a parallel universe.
• Space Bees (queen voiced by Morwenna Banks): Alien insectoids responsible for destroying Evans' kind.
• Squawkencluck's Parents: Professor Squawkencluck's mother and father. the former has accidentally on purpose turned the latter into a rubbish monster.
• Tutankha-Moo: An Egyptian, cow-based villain.
• Queen of Weevils (voiced by Miranda Richardson): A Queen who escaped Merlin's clutches and now wants to take over the world.

Episodes

Series 1 (2015–16)

Series 1 premiered 28 September 2015 and is planned to consist of 52 episodes.^[16][17] A Christmas special, with Richard Ayoade and Brian Blessed was confirmed. Episodes are 11 minutes long, apart from the first episode and the special The Snowman Cometh,^[18] which are 22 minutes.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Danger Mouse Begins... Again"[19]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	28 September 2015
Danger Mouse is fired for wrecking London and Baron Greenback, seemingly reformed, creates an army of robots to protect the world's leaders. However, Danger Mouse suspects Greenback is up to no good.
2	2	"Danger at C Level"[20]	Robert Cullen	Nathan Cockerill	29 September 2015
Penfold is sick of getting injured on missions, so Danger Mouse agrees to take him on holiday. But then mutant sea monsters start to menace the world and Danger Mouse must decide between his mission and his friend.
3	3	"Greenfinger"[21]	Robert Cullen	Mark Oswin and James Griffiths	30 September 2015
Danger Mouse tries to prove to Prof. Squawkencluck that he can be trusted, but accidentally allows a strange and inexplicably Welsh alien plant to grow all over London. Worse, Penfold can't stop making jam!
4	4	"Planet of the Toilets"[22]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	1 October 2015
An artificially intelligent toilet reinvents itself as "Dr Loo-cifer" and leads a revolt of the world's toilets.
5	5	"Pink Dawn"[23]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	2 October 2015
Danger Mouse must embrace his feminine side to stop the pink-obsessed supervillain Princess from turning the whole world girly.
6	6	"Big Head Awakens"[24]	Robert Cullen	Andrew Burrell	5 October 2015
Prof. Squawkencluck's new security system goes berserk and must be stopped - if only DM and the Prof could stop arguing for long enough.
7	7	"The World Wide Spider"[25]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	6 October 2015
A giant spider is rampaging across the world and Danger Mouse must stop it... or at least he would, if not for his terrible fear of spiders.
8	8	"The Other Day the Earth Stood Still"[26]	Robert Cullen	Written by: Rob Sprackling and John Smith Additional material by: Ben Ward	7 October 2015
Greenback's plague of red traffic brings all the world's traffic to a standstill - and then the world itself!
9	9	"Welcome to Danger World"[27]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	8 October 2015
An alien huckster makes Danger Mouse the most popular tourist attraction in the universe.
10	10	"Jeopardy Mouse"[28]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	9 October 2015
Danger Mouse must work with America's best secret agent Jeopardy Mouse to foil Greenback's scheme to rearrange the continents, but DM's showboating does not endear him to Jeopardy's no-nonsense attitude.
11	11	"The Return of Danger K"[29]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	12 October 2015
When an old enemy, Birch Badboy, comes to take over the world via rudeness, Colonel K must return to his secret agent job as Danger K to stop him from turning everyone rude.
12	12	"Big Penfold"[30]	Robert Cullen	Howard Read and Chris Chandler	13 October 2015
Professor Squawkencluck makes a growing/shrinking invention to save the world from a meteor attack. When Penfold is accidentally turned huge, DM figures out it could actually be helpful to save the world.
13	13	"The Unusual Suspects"[31]	Robert Cullen	Nick Oster and Mark Huckerby	14 October 2015
The secret service agents have suspicions that someone is trying to take a new chemical from them, and all fingers of suspicion are pointing towards Colonel K.
14	14	"Danger Fan"[32]	Robert Cullen	Emma Kennedy	15 October 2015
Danger Mouse's biggest fan comes to visit, on the same day as his yearly inspection. Unfortunately Danger Mouse fails to capture his enemy.
15	15	"Quark Games"[33]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	16 October 2015
Quark traps Danger Mouse, Penfold and Jeopardy Mouse in his new game where old foes return.
16	16	"The Snowman Cometh"[34]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	16 December 2015[35]
The Snowman is fed up of Christmas and being made fun of for being considered harmless, so he kidnaps Santa Claus. Danger Mouse and Penfold go to the rescue.
17	17[36]	"The Inventor Preventer"[37]	Robert Cullen	Howard Read	15 February 2016 [38]
Danger Mouse and Penfold must prevent Isambard Kingkong Brunel from travelling back in time and un-inventing the World.
18	18[39]	"Never Say Clever Again"[40]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	16 February 2016[38]
After all the Danger Agents become super-intelligent as a result of eating brainpower-enhancing celery, Danger Mouse considers looking for a new job.
19	19[41]	"#Sinister Mouse"[42]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward[43]	17 February 2016[38]
An evil version of Danger Mouse escapes from a parallel dimension, and teams up with Baron von Greenback to defeat his good counterpart.
20	20	"There's No Place Like Greenback"[44]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby[44]	18 February 2016[38]
Danger Mouse and Penfold become reluctant surrogate parents to Baron von Greenback, who seems to have accidentally erased his own memory when his latest evil scheme goes wrong.
21	21	"From Duck to Dawn"[45]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby[46]	19 February 2016[38]
Count Duckula is back, and he is determined to take over the World- one terrible TV show at a time.
22	22	"Happy Boom Day!"[47]	Robert Cullen	Mark Oswin and Jim Griffiths	22 February 2016
Danger Mouse's plans for Professor Squawkencluck's surprise birthday party go awry when Baron Von Greenback unleashes killer birthday presents upon the World.
23	23	"Frankensquawk's Monster"[48]	Robert Cullen	Ben Ward	23 February 2016
When Professor Squawkencluck's Mother comes to visit HQ, a giant mutant rubbish monster is not too far behind.
24	24	"Escape From Big Head"[49]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	24 February 2016
Professor Squawkencluck attempts to reactivate her "Big Head" security system, but it goes into lockdown once again and imprisons everyone in a maximum-security dungeon.
25	25	"Megahurtz Attacks"[50]	Robert Cullen	Sophie Petzal	25 February 2016
A failed attempt to boost Penfold's self-confidence leads to a super-powerful game monster escaping into the real world.
26	26	"The Hamster Effect"[51]	Robert Cullen	Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby	26 February 2016
To prevent them from ruining his evil plans again, the deranged time-travelling chimp Brunel travels back in time to prevent Danger Mouse and Penfold from ever meeting.

Home media

The first DVD of the series was released on November 2, 2015.^[52] All episodes have been released for digital download through Amazon and other services.

DVD releases

Region 2

DVD title	Series(s)	Episode count	Total running time	Release date(s)	Episodes
Danger Mouse: Mission Improbable[52]	1	7	88 mins approx	2 November 2015	Danger Mouse Begins Again; Planet Of The Toilets; Danger At C-Level; The Other Day The Earth Stood Still; Welcome To Danger World; Big Head Awakens; Greenfinger

Merchandising

Jazwares is the master toy partner, Penguin Books will publish a range of printed books, including story books, official guides, sticker books, novelty books, annuals and electronic titles and D.C. Thomson & Co. will publish a monthly magazine with comic strips, puzzles, fact files, poster and competitions.^[53] Marc Silk will read Danger Mouse audiobooks, the first one being released on 2 June 2016.^[54]

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External links

• Danger Mouse at BBC Online