About this season
Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
Episodes (12)
1. Mr Valentino and the Rubber Bottom
Aired 1 October 1991 • 15 min
2. William Tell
Aired 8 October 1991 • 15 min
Mrs Trout writes, directs and stars in the school play. But will everything be alright on the night? Not likely with Bodger and Badger about.
3. The Head's Anniversary
Aired 15 October 1991 • 15 min
Badger decides to enter Mrs Trout's poetry competition.
4. The Golden Alarm Clock
Aired 22 October 1991 • 15 min
Mr Valentino, the school governor, comes to the school to tell Mrs Trout that Miss Moon is to be awarded a prize for not missing a day's school. Mrs Trout is not happy!
5. The New Moon
Aired 29 October 1991 • 15 min
Miss Moon gets a thump on the head and a new view of life but all Mrs Trout gets is mash in the mush.
6. Eammon and the New Headmistress
Aired 5 November 1991 • 15 min
As Mrs Trout has been sent back to teacher's school to learn how to read, the new headmistress arrives, and brings along her loathsome nephew who is to be the school handyman. Bodger seems to be out of a job again.
7. The Mashed Potato Gun
Aired 12 November 1991 • 15 min
Mrs Bogart and Simon set up a communications system for the school.
8. The Difficult Test
Aired 19 November 1991 • 15 min
Mrs Bogart is determined to make Class 4 sit a difficult test. However with so many interruptions (mostly from Bodger who is trying to have a fire drill), will it ever happen?
9. The Head's Twin Sister
Aired 26 November 1991 • 15 min
The Head will stop at nothing to get hold of Simon's competition winnings, even posing as her own hard-up identical twin sister!
10. The Baby
Aired 3 December 1991 • 15 min
Miss Moon has agreed to look after her neighbour's baby for the day.
11. The Doubling Box
Aired 10 December 1991 • 15 min
12. The Class Photo
Aired 17 December 1991 • 15 min
Badger is having a bath because it's time for the class photograph. When the photographer is cancelled, Miss Moon asks Simon to help out.