About this season
Creepy Crawlies was a stop motion animation series created by Cosgrove Hall. The series consisted of 52 ten-minute episodes, which were broadcast on Children's ITV between 1987 and 1989. All episodes were written by Peter Reeves and directed by Franc Vose and Brian Little; narration and character voices were provided by Paul Nicholas. The series was based upon the daily goings-on of a group of common invertebrate creatures that lived at the bottom of a garden around an old sundial. And so another bright new day dawns upon the home of the Creepy Crawlies, Mr Harrison the snooty snail, Suppose the lowly red-nosed worm, Ariadne the spider, the irksome woodlouse-come-pill-bug called Anorak, meek Ladybird, Lambeth the brawny-but-brainless beetle and Ancient the aged caterpillar dwell right down at the bottom of the garden, near the shed, on and around an old broken sundial. Classic Cosgrove Hall stop-motion animation.
Episodes (13)
1. The Great Slidificator
Aired 7 January 1988
2. When Up Was Down
Aired 14 January 1988
3. Noses and Legs
Aired 21 January 1988
4. Somewhere Dark Without Stripes
Aired 28 January 1988
5. The Knowledge
Aired 4 February 1988
6. The Leaf That Cried
Aired 11 February 1988
7. A Pleasant Friendly Shape
Aired 18 February 1988
8. 3 and 5 and So On
Aired 25 February 1988
9. The Tail That Told Me
Aired 3 March 1988
10. The Fresh Air Problem
Aired 10 March 1988
11. A Wet Tomorrow
Aired 17 March 1988
12. Happiness is a Wet Coat
Aired 24 March 1988
13. To Beetle or Not to Beetle
Aired 31 March 1988