Little Monsters (TV series)

This article is about the children's TV series. For the game show, see Little Monsters (game show).
Little Monsters
Genre Children's TV
Developed by Russell Neale Dever
Written by Jimmy Hibbert
Directed by Tony Garth
Voices of David Holt
Janet James
Jill Shilling
Melissa Sinden
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 52
Production
Editor(s) Lincoln Anderson
Helen
Kenny Mark Wharton
Running time 52 × 5 minute
Release
Original network BBC
First shown in September 1998
Original release 14 September 1998 – 1999

Little Monsters is a British animated children's television that ran from 1998–1999 on BBC1, being co–produced by Collingwood O'Hare, Ealing Studios, Contender Entertainment Group and Pacifier Pictures Limited (a joint venture between Flicks Films, VGi Entertainment, CBBC and GMTV). The show was based on the books of the same name by Tony Garth, focusing on a different central mischievous and eccentric child.

Plot

First broadcast in 1998, the five-minute episodes of Little Monsters were co-produced by Ealing Studios and CBBC. Little Monsters was also translated into Scottish Gaelic, known as: Na Bleigeardan. In France, it was broadcast by TF1, under the title: Petites Crapules, in Germany on Super RTL as: Kleine Monsters and in Italy on RAI2 and RAI1 as: Adorabili Pesti.

In 2010, the programme was also broadcast in Spain, South Africa, Israel, the Middle East, Singapore, China, South Korea, Japan, and Latin Europe. The Gaelic version originally aired on BBC One Scotland from 5 January 2001 to 2 April 2001, repeated from September to November 2001 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It then aired on BBC Two Scotland and BBC Alba. The rights to the series are still owned, and controlled by Russell Neale Dever, in collaboration with Ian Harding. The distribution rights are controlled by Foothill Entertainment, Santa Barbara, United States.

The show will return in Spring 2016 with 65 new CGI episodes.[1]

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