Does anyone remember a kids TV programme with Tony Robinson from the mid 70s? If so, what was it called?

Question

I seem to remember that the programmme had little models/puppets/characters in (a bit like 'Michael Bentine's Potty Time') living out their lives, or acting out a story, with Tony overlooking the whole thing. Or am I just going mad, as no-one else I've spoken to remembers it?

Answer 1

In the early 1970s he starred in the children's fantasy-comedy programme Sam On Boff's Island, which was about a man who falls asleep while eating his breakfast cereal and ends up transported to an island which looks just like his cereal.

Answer 2

It was Fat Tulip's Garden, which was absolutely brilliant. I think it must have been on in the 80's or even early 90's because I remember it being a real favourite of mine when I was a student. The titles included a sequence with the camera man running through grass with the camera at ankle height with accompanying music that sounded like a dog panting, so you got a "dog's eye view of the garden"

It was a brilliant programme. I'm not sure why it was cancelled, but Tony did go on to do the equally brilliant Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

Answer 3

He did a programme called Tales From Fat Tulip's Garden

check this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh50H9Tt8hk&mode=related&search=

Worth a look even if its not the right programme

Answer 4

I seem to remember something called Fat Tulip or was it a dream?

Answer 5

I don't know he was in something called: Big Jim and the Figaro Club

Answer 6

J. P. was right; it was Sam on Boffs Island. Thank, J. P.
Here's a YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/6gKOv0fJYCY

Answer 7

Fat Tulip

Answer 8

Was this "H.R. Puff n Stuff"?

Answer 9

was it finger bobs