The Raggy Dolls
The Raggy Dolls is a 1980s British cartoon series for children, following the adventures of a motley collection of rejects from a toy factory, who live in a reject bin.
Genre: Animation
Cast:Neil Innes
Season 1, Episode 1
The Raggy Dolls are out playing Cricket, during an argument between who should bowl a model plane crashes in the field, the Raggy Dolls decide to fix the plane and take it for a ride.
Season 1, Episode 2
The Raggy Dolls are enjoying a quiet day in the country side, when they are suddenly disturbed by a circus.
Season 1, Episode 3
Whilst out for a quiet walk Hi-Fi and Back-To-Front find a pigeon that seems to be in pain, on closer inspection they see that the pigeon has a broken wing, they both make a decision to help the injured pigeon to fly again.
Season 1, Episode 4
With Back-to-Front's magic tricks being out of practice, Hi-Fi uses his metal detector to uncover a chest that has a real magic book in it, in which Back-to-Front uses to fix his head, but the book soon causes problems.
Season 1, Episode 5
The Raggy Dolls were taken to a toy shop in London and were made as special offers to anyone who buys a video game. However, despite this new life, they did not want to give up their friendship when being bought individually, which is what happens when Lucy had been bought by a rich girl.
Season 1, Episode 6
After Sad Sack gets chased by a duckling, the Raggy Dolls discover that the peaceful area of a field they are in is being littered by a careless family on a picnic.
Season 1, Episode 7
The Raggy Dolls venture into the forbidden woods for a picnic only to find there is a poacher scaring away all of the wildlife, the poacher is scared into his own traps by the Raggy Dolls.
Season 1, Episode 8
The Raggy Dolls are taken from the reject bin and are used as prizes at the funfair by a crook named Toby Martin. Back-To-Front shows the crowd that Toby is a fraud and he gets removed from the funfair, only after pulling Sack Sack into pieces, luckily the Raggy Dolls are there to piece him back together.
Season 1, Episode 9
Claude is a very good cook for the Raggy Dolls, but when he saw Florrie Fosdyke bake a cake for the factory competition, he was then disgusted with her poor efforts. So the gang decide to help her out by replacing it with an even better cake.
Season 1, Episode 10
After a storm has passed, the Raggy Dolls go to see Pumpernickle but find him on the ground. They also notice that Farmer Brown is not around to help the animals, and with the help of Rufus the sheepdog, they find him stuck in an old mineshaft and help to rescue him.
Season 1, Episode 11
One snowy Christmas Eve, the Raggy Dolls decided to go tobogganing in the snow, but poor Sad Sack meanwhile wished he was still back in bed. And they end up crashing into the doors of a children's hospital, where they become temporary Christmas presents to sick children.
Season 1, Episode 12
After hearing about a French Week being held in Bunce's Emporium, the Raggy Dolls decided to go there to have a look, but as they did, Claude got into a lot of trouble when he had wandered off. From there he gets lost and meets another French doll called Babette.
Season 1, Episode 13
It is Princess's "binday", and she feels that she is being ignored as her friends get the preparations ready in secret. She decides to award them with a flight on Owl.
Season 2, Episode 1
An American artist, Andre G. Hamburger needs inspiration for his new work and takes Dotty and Back-to-Front. Only when Hi-Fi rescues them, do they end up making his art even more famous.
Season 2, Episode 2
Claude teaches the Raggy Dolls French. At first, Princess tries, then the rest of the Raggy Dolls except Sad Sack, who thought it is silly until he comes across a troubled French doll in an apple tree.
Season 2, Episode 3
The Raggy Dolls find a Swan in distress one cold winter's night and decide to help it.
Season 2, Episode 4
Mr Grimes's nephews come to visit him for the weekend and cause problems not just for him, but for the Raggy Dolls as well.
Season 2, Episode 5
The Raggy Dolls were having a Sports Day, and everyone is enjoying it, except for poor Sad Sack.
Season 2, Episode 6
The Raggy Dolls help to repair a doll that they find thrown away at the dump.
Season 2, Episode 7
Mr Grimes is running out of ideas, and it is up to the Raggy Dolls to find some more, in order to keep his business running.
Season 2, Episode 8
Mr Grimes goes to the seaside for his holiday, and the Raggy Dolls follow.
Season 2, Episode 9
Princess feels like she is not royal enough, so the Raggy Dolls dress her up in royalty and give her a royal tour around the countryside, but things do not go according to plan when her coronet is stolen by a magpie and a fierce bull sees her red dress.
Season 2, Episode 10
Claude gets himself into trouble, when he went after Onion soup, made by Florrie, and ends up being put inside a saucepan.
Season 2, Episode 11
Dotty decides that the dolls should move to a new home. But when night falls and a storm takes place, she climbs inside a tree to shelter. When the other Raggy Dolls hear she is in trouble, they build a raft and set off to the rescue.
Season 2, Episode 12
After giving a baby mouse some of their picnic food, the Raggy Dolls tell it where they got it. The next day, the factory is overtaken by a huge hoard of mice, and they now have to find a way on getting rid of them.
Season 2, Episode 13
The Raggy Dolls sail on a toy boat and end up lost at sea. They reach a beach which Claude thinks is France, and camp there before sailing back home. In the end, Dotty discovers they were on an island in the middle of the sea.
Season 3, Episode 1
One day, The Raggy Dolls were having a great time watching clouds, it was then disturbed when a hot air balloon landed in the big field. The pilot left a boy in charge and while he went for help, the boy accidentally clambered in and got unconscious as the balloon took off by high winds, and it is up to them to save the boy.
Season 3, Episode 2
One night, Lucy wanted to be brave for once, she managed to succeed when she and the other Raggy Dolls met up with some spooky skeleton Raggy Dolls.
Season 3, Episode 3
The Raggy Dolls decided to build a Tree House as their hang-out place, but whilst they were building, they noticed that a Magpie had been stealing jewelry from Mr Grimes’ Toy Factory.
Season 3, Episode 4
Claude had come up with an idea for all The Raggy Dolls to dance for the evenings, and whilst they were planning to do that, they then found in the reject bin a Memory Machine with faulty answers. They managed to fix it up, in return of it lighting up the disco.
Season 3, Episode 5
The Raggy Dolls decided to go for a sail, only for them to have a rough time with speed boats.
Season 3, Episode 6
One autumn, The Raggy Dolls decided to camouflage their tree house, but as they were gathering things together, they eventually came to find a stubborn hedgehog, living in a bonfire in which would soon be alight.
Season 3, Episode 7
The Raggy Dolls find out what happens when a greedy bunny has too many chocolate eggs.
Season 3, Episode 8
Sad Sack was having trouble drawing a picture, so he decided to read a book about a magic sword, which then caused him to have the most amazing dream of his life.
Season 3, Episode 9
Grimes Soft Toys are having a clearout. The Raggy Dolls find themselves thrown in a skip and taken to the town dump. A poor old lady visits the dump looking for scrap items to sell so that she can make some money to buy herself food and drink. She spots the Raggy Dolls in the skip and takes them home with her. In return for her kindness, the Raggy Dolls help the old lady by repairing all the broken clocks that she has so that she can sell them.
Season 3, Episode 10
It was a peaceful day in their new treehouse until they were interrupted by jets and aeroplanes.
Season 3, Episode 11
The Raggy Dolls have found an amusement park but they soon discovered that it is not much fun at all.
Season 3, Episode 12
Mr Grimes was looking after his sister's naughty pet puppy as the Raggy Dolls had soon spotted him getting into all kinds of trouble and gets lost.
Season 3, Episode 13
One day, The Raggy Dolls found something strange in the Big Field, which turns out to be Horse Jumps for a Welsh Pony, belonging to Farmer Brown's daughter that then had an accident. The Raggy Dolls come to the rescue, once again.
Season 4, Episode 1
After the terrible storm was brewing, the Raggy Dolls must fix their new treehouse.
Season 4, Episode 2
The Raggy Dolls must help a parrot who had been birdnapped by poachers.
Season 4, Episode 3
Mr Grimes had found a game of golf, so the Raggy Dolls must make a game of crazy golf for themselves.
Season 4, Episode 4
The Raggy Dolls try to help Pumpernickle by scaring all the crows away.
Season 4, Episode 5
Mr. Grimes's terrible twin nephews were on a trip to the zoo as the Raggy Dolls followed with the help of the other animals.
Season 4, Episode 6
Deciding to cheer Sad Sack up, the Raggy Dolls had made a puppet show to make him believe himself.
Season 4, Episode 7
The Raggy Dolls had found an old windmill as they soon discovered it.
Season 4, Episode 8
The Raggy Dolls have met a little carthorse who does not know who he is with a little help from Hercules the farm horse.
Season 4, Episode 9
The Raggy Dolls were all harvesting crabapples and blackberries and they decide to make jam with them.
Season 4, Episode 10
While the Raggy Dolls were having a picnic lunch, they meet Mr Grimes's long lost teddy bear named Old Edward who had been lost for a long time as they tried to help him out.
Season 4, Episode 11
The Raggy Dolls had quite enough of Mr Marmalade's tricks after he had scared them, as they made their way to the factory, they were terrified by a rat so Mr. Marmalade tries to rescue them by scaring the rat away.
Season 4, Episode 12
Mr Marmalade and the Raggy Dolls had given them clues as they were on a search to find a hidden treasure.
Season 4, Episode 13
Sad Sack had met a toy kangaroo, Rupert the Roo who had been mailed from Australia, so the Raggy Dolls try to help him out before heading back to Australia.
Season 5, Episode 1
When a witch tries to spoil their Halloween Party, the other Raggy Dolls think her magic is the surprise laser show promised by Back-To-Front and Hi-Fi, and their laughter drives the witch away. When the boys explain that their show did not work, the Raggy Dolls make sure to laugh all the way home.
Season 5, Episode 2
The Raggy Dolls explain the significance of 5 November to Claude and set out to watch a firework display. Claude is captured by a group of boys who are planning their own bonfire in an abandoned paint factory. They tie Claude to a rocket and light their bonfire, oblivious to the sparks, which set the factory alight. Hi-Fi calls the Fire Brigade, but before they can arrive, a spark sets off the boys' box of fireworks and drives them away. In the commotion, the Raggy Dolls free Claude, just before a spark ignites the rocket.
Season 5, Episode 3
Princess learns that good friends are worth more than a whole pot of gold.
Season 5, Episode 4
The Raggy Dolls are kidnapped by aliens from another planet and Hi-Fi befriends an alien who stammers just like him.
Season 5, Episode 5
The Raggy Dolls go hiking but get lost in the hot weather. Luckily, the Romans have left handy signposts to help them find their way again. Sad Sack dreams about life in Roman times.
Season 5, Episode 6
The Raggy Dolls go on an adventure in the jungle and meet a lonely gorilla.
Season 5, Episode 9
The Raggy Dolls are at a toy fair when a monkey causes chaos and takes over the fair.
Season 5, Episode 10
The Raggy Dolls meets Ragamuffin, a wandering traveller doll who had lost his owner and decided to spend his life taking in new sights and experiences of his adventures.
Season 6, Episode 1
The Raggy Dolls teach Edward about old-fashioned things from the past.
Season 6, Episode 2
The Raggy Dolls meets a mysterious woman called Lady Luck who takes them on an adventure they will never forget.
Season 6, Episode 4
The Raggy Dolls hitch a ride with Mr. Grimes when he goes camping. After setting up their home-made tents and sleeping bags, they notice that a rock climber is in trouble. The Raggy Dolls come to his rescue.
Season 6, Episode 5
While staying in the countryside, the Raggy Dolls meet a lonely cliff.
Season 6, Episode 8
The wind blows a young crow out of its nest. With the help of Back-To-Front's kite and a helpful cow, the Raggy Dolls manage to return him to the treetops.
Season 6, Episode 9
The Raggy Dolls dig up a troublesome rock. Thinking they have discovered valuable purple diamonds, they dream of what they would do with their riches, until Mr. Marmalade, the factory cat, explains that is only amethyst, and worth very little.
Season 6, Episode 10
Mr. Grimes' sister leaves the terrible twins Oz and Boz with Mr Grimes. He suggests they collect insects to study, but when the Raggy Dolls find that they have trapped the insects in a jar without air-holes, they dress up Sad Sack as a giant bumblebee to teach the twins a lesson.
Season 6, Episode 11
The Raggy Dolls are excited when Rupert returns from Australia.
Season 7, Episode 1
The Raggy Dolls and Rupert the Roo visit the Royal County Show.
Season 7, Episode 2
The Raggy Dolls and Rupert the Roo visit an Open Day with great results.
Season 7, Episode 3
The Raggy Dolls visit a town carnival with over-the-top results.
Season 7, Episode 5
The Raggy Dolls have a barbecue ball and Claude asks Princess if she would like to dance.
Season 7, Episode 6
Sad Sack accidentally steers 'The Spirit of Adventure' into a sandbank, leading him to discover a secret cave on the beach.
Season 7, Episode 7
Sad Sack befriends the ghost of a fisherman who tells stories of the seven seas.
Season 7, Episode 11
While holidaying in London, there is trouble for the Raggy Dolls and the workmen.
Season 7, Episode 13
Hi-Fi and Back-To-Front build a skateboard and run into trouble with finding the right wheels for the job. Rupert the Roo brings them the wheels from Mr. Grimes's tea trolley. Sad Sack doubts that these are the best wheels for a skateboard, and it looks like he may be right.
Season 8, Episode 1
After Florrie steps out to do some shopping, Mr. Grimes hires a robot to do the hard work as the Raggy Dolls try to devise a plan to get Florrie back.
Season 8, Episode 3
While testing a toy aeroplane until it lands on an empty house, the Raggy Dolls try to find it before heading back home with a flight on an owl.
Season 8, Episode 4
Mr. Grimes goes on holiday near the seaside, but things do not go according to plan when the Raggy Dolls try to help people from getting washed away by the sea.
Season 8, Episode 6
After the cabbages in Lucy's garden are eaten by slugs, the Raggy Dolls build a greenhouse for her. Overcome by the heat, she dreams she shrinks in size and meets many strange plants and insects. The Raggy Dolls rescue her, but she realises even pests have to eat.
Season 8, Episode 7
Three haughty princess dolls make fun of Princess, but the Raggy Dolls convince them that a terrible wizard is on their trail so they can teach them all a lesson.
Season 8, Episode 8
The Raggy Dolls watch Cynthia and Mr. Grimes doing a skydive at the town gala.
Season 8, Episode 9
The Raggy Dolls decide to write a love letter to Mr. Grimes thinking it was from Cynthia Popplethwaite.
Season 8, Episode 10
Mr. Grimes is too shy to declare his feelings to Cynthia Popplethwaite, so the Raggy Dolls play cupid. When Mr. Grimes and Cynthia get married, she brings the Raggy Dolls with her to the cottage so they can all live happily ever after.
Season 9, Episode 1
Newlyweds Mr. Grimes and Cynthia Popplethwaite go on their honeymoon. The Raggy Dolls, feeling very proud of Mr. Grimes after his marriage, decide to follow the couple inside their suitcase.
Season 9, Episode 2
After arriving in Spain via cruise liner, Princess is captured by a monkey. It's up to the Raggy Dolls to save her before heading back to the cruise liner with the help of some seagulls.
Season 9, Episode 3
The Raggy Dolls decide to make a paddling pool to swim in until a storm arrives.
Season 9, Episode 4
After arriving in Italy, the Raggy Dolls try to help an Italian alley cat by finding its lost kitten.
Season 9, Episode 5
While visiting an ancient temple in Greece, leaving crisps and peanuts for a trail, the Raggy Dolls find a lizard who knows the way out of the temple, until it is revealed that the "Minotaur" is only just Mr. Grimes carrying a bicycle thanks to one of Back-To-Front's pranks.
Season 9, Episode 6
While on a trip to Egypt, the Raggy Dolls are tricked by a scorpion, until they meet an Egyptian princess doll named Shehabi, who helps them find emeralds for the eyes of a princess statue named Rami, before it magically sends them back home to the Reject bin.
Season 9, Episode 7
The Raggy Dolls and Mr. Marmalade help a baby elephant by trying to remember everything and scaring it with a help of a mouse caught by Mr. Marmalade.
Season 9, Episode 9
Natasha, a Russian nesting doll of seven in the care of Mrs Grimes, becomes friends with the Raggy Dolls, Rupert the Roo, and Old Edward.
Season 9, Episode 10
Rupert the Roo is bored of talking to Natasha and Old Edward, so he decides to join the Raggy Dolls on a boat ride. They discover a film crew, along with some famous actors and actresses, filming a scene for a film on the bridge of the water pond. As they see Rupert, one of the actors throws him over the bridge and later on, Rupert finds out that he is not bored anymore. Series finale.
