List of ''Danger Mouse'' episodes
This is an episode guide for the children's animated television series Danger Mouse, made by Cosgrove Hall and first shown on ITV during its weekday lunchtime or afternoon children's programming. 161 episodes were made which were broadcast between 1981 and 1992. Later, VHS and DVD releases edited the 5-part stories together as single episodes, to total 89 episodes. The episode order is controversial because stories were often initially transmitted some years after the rest of the season to which they theoretically belonged, often forming part of a 'repeats season'. The US Region 1 DVD releases present the episodes in the UK broadcast order.
Series overview
Series | Episodes | Episode length | Premiere | Finale | |
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Pilots | 2 | 15 min. | N/A | ||
1 | 11 | 11 min. | 28 September 1981 | 14 December 1981 | |
2 | 30 | 5 min. | 4 January 1982 | 12 February 1982 | |
3 | 17 | 5 min. 11 min. | 4 October 1982 | 1 November 1982 | |
4 | 45 | 5 min. | 3 January 1983 | 23 May 1983 | |
5 | 10 | 10 min. | 20 February 1984 | 30 April 1984 | |
6 | 27 | 10 min. | 25 December 1984 | 26 December 1985 | |
7 | 6 | 25 min. | 13 November 1986 | 18 December 1986 | |
8 | 2 | 10 min. | 20 February 1987 | 27 February 1987 | |
9 | 6 | 22 min. | 3 January 1991 | 30 January 1992 | |
10 | 7 | 22 min. | 6 February 1992 | 19 March 1992 |
Pilot episodes (1979–80)
Episode | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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Pilot 1 | "The Beginning" | Brian Cosgrove | John Hambley | unaired |
The 2001 UK DVD Tower of Terror includes the second pilot episode "The Mystery of the Lost Chord" and states there is a first pilot episode which is "yet to be found". However, there are no further details known as to whether this pilot was a different story, or earlier version of "The Mystery of the Lost Chord", which itself later became the episode, "Who Stole the Bagpipes?". | ||||
Pilot 2 | "The Mystery of the Lost Chord" | Brian Cosgrove | John Hambley | unaired (first commercially released 15 October 2001) |
The 15-minute pilot was later shortened to 10 minutes and aired (with changes) as the second episode of series 1, "Who Stole the Bagpipes?". This pilot features no narration, William Franklyn plays Danger Mouse and Penfold has a Scottish accent. Ernest Penfold was voiced by Peter Hawkins. Baron Greenback is here named Baron Greenteeth (although, the DVD release erroneously lists him as Greenchief). Stiletto has an assistant henchman too. Although unaired, it was commercially released for the first time as a bonus feature on the 2001 UK DVD Tower of Terror. The DVD feature states it to be the second pilot episode, as the first pilot is "yet to be found". |
Series 1 (1981)
Series 1 episodes are 11 minutes each, and originally aired on Mondays and Wednesdays with no commercial breaks.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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1 | 1 | "Rogue Robots" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 28 September 1981 |
Danger Mouse discovers that Baron Greenback is behind a wave of attack robots that have been going after agents that work with DM. | |||||
2 | 2 | "Who Stole the Bagpipes" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 30 September 1981 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold travel to Scotland to keep Greenback from destroying the world with music from all the bagpipes in the world. This episode was the modified version of the 2nd pilot. | |||||
3 | 3 | "Trouble with Ghosts" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 5 October 1981 |
Greenback captures Colonel K and has the Colonel send Danger Mouse and Penfold on holiday to a haunted castle in Transylvania. | |||||
4 | 4 | "Chicken Run" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 7 October 1981 |
Greenback steals a growth serum from Professor von Squawkencluck and with it creates giant chickens to take over the world once and for all. And for once, Penfold saves the day! | |||||
5 | 5 | "The Martian Misfit" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 12 October 1981 |
Greenback creates a 'Martian' to keep Danger Mouse busy while he sets out on a crime spree which doesn't last very long! | |||||
6 | 6 | "The Dream Machine" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 14 October 1981 |
Greenback drives Danger Mouse and Penfold crazy with his dream machine. | |||||
7 | 7 | "Lord of the Bungle" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 19 October 1981 |
A fall causes Penfold to think he is the Lord of the Jungle, when he and Danger Mouse try to find out why elephants are being turned into sugar cubes. | |||||
8 | 8 | "Die Laughing" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 21 October 1981 |
Greenback is causing the world's leaders to laugh themselves to death in his latest plot to become ruler of the Earth. | |||||
9 | 9 | "The World of Machines" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 26 October 1981 |
Greenback kidnaps Penfold to lure Danger Mouse into a spaceship and send both of them to a planet ruled by machines. | |||||
10 | 10 | "Ice Station Camel" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 28 October 1981 |
Danger Mouse must stop Greenback who has stopped the Earth's rotation which in turn has cancelled gravity. | |||||
11 | 11 | "A Plague of Pyramids" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 14 December 1981 |
Danger Mouse discovers Greenback is behind a plague of pyramids which are popping up all over England and threatening to sink. |
Series 2 (1982)
Series 2 stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments over five consecutive days. VHS and DVD releases usually see these episodes edited together as one 25-minute episode, although in reality, these omnibus episodes run closer to 17—19 minutes as they lose David Jason's 'cliffhanger' narration over the "To be continued..." captions. On the VHS and DVD releases, the "Episode 1" suffix in the title card after the opening credits has often been left unaltered. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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12 | 1 | Custard "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 4 January 1982 |
13 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 5 January 1982 |
14 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 6 January 1982 |
15 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 7 January 1982 |
16 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 8 January 1982 |
Danger Mouse travels to outer space to find the Custard-Mite Of Glut and bring him to Earth after Greenback floods the world with instant custard. | |||||
17 | 6 | Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 11 January 1982 |
18 | 7 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 12 January 1982 |
19 | 8 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 13 January 1982 |
20 | 9 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 14 January 1982 |
21 | 10 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 15 January 1982 |
Aliens capture Danger Mouse and Penfold for use in an experiment when they journey to the Bermuda Triangle out in the sea on the trail of Baron Greenback. | |||||
22 | 11 | The Duel "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 18 January 1982 |
23 | 12 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 19 January 1982 |
24 | 13 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 20 January 1982 |
25 | 14 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 21 January 1982 |
26 | 15 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 22 January 1982 |
Greenback tells Danger Mouse that he will go straight and be good, if Danger Mouse beats him in a duel and if Danger Mouse promises to quit his job if he is the loser. Unfortunately, The Baron has a trick. | |||||
27 | 16 | The Day of the Suds "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 25 January 1982 |
28 | 17 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 26 January 1982 |
29 | 18 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 27 January 1982 |
30 | 19 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 28 January 1982 |
31 | 20 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 29 January 1982 |
Washing machines under the control of Greenback threaten to destroy. | |||||
32 | 21 | The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 1 February 1982 |
33 | 22 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 2 February 1982 |
34 | 23 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 3 February 1982 |
35 | 24 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 4 February 1982 |
36 | 25 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 5 February 1982 |
Greenback has stolen a bad luck charm for use in a bad luck ray. Danger Mouse manages to get it and attempts to give it back to the original owners who don't really want it back. | |||||
37 | 26 | The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 8 February 1982 |
38 | 27 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 9 February 1982 |
39 | 28 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 10 February 1982 |
40 | 29 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 11 February 1982 |
41 | 30 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 12 February 1982 |
Greenback kidnaps Penfold to get Danger Mouse to bring him four ingredients needed for an evil spell to take over the world: The hair of a yeti, straw from a witch's broom, a piece of the London fog monster, and the tail feathers of Count Duckula. |
Series 3 (1982)
The first three stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments over five consecutive days. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format. The fourth and fifth stories were single 11-minute segments and aired on Mondays; some sources (including iTunes UK and The Guinness Book of Classic British TV) list these episodes as belonging to the first series. This would appear to be supported by the fact that these final two episodes have the series 1 credit sequence with its original title card and the same series 1 animation. (The title card was changed to the more familiar logo from series 2 onwards.)
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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42 | 1 | The Invasion of Colonel 'K' "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 4 October 1982 |
43 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 5 October 1982 |
44 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 6 October 1982 |
45 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 7 October 1982 |
46 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 8 October 1982 |
Greenback shrinks himself and enters Colonel K's body to learn all of the Colonel's secrets. | |||||
47 | 6 | Danger Mouse Saves the World... Again "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 11 October 1982 |
48 | 7 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 12 October 1982 |
49 | 8 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 13 October 1982 |
50 | 9 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 14 October 1982 |
51 | 10 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 15 October 1982 |
Danger Mouse is captured by Greenback when Greenback threatens to destroy all the world's signposts, and is subjected to a brain picker to remove all his thoughts. | |||||
52 | 11 | The Odd Ball Runaround "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 18 October 1982 |
53 | 12 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 19 October 1982 |
54 | 13 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 20 October 1982 |
55 | 14 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 21 October 1982 |
56 | 15 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 22 October 1982 |
Greenback is determined to steal plans that Danger Mouse and Penfold are transporting from Australia to London. | |||||
57 | 16 | "The Strange Case of the Ghost Bus" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 25 October 1982 |
Danger Mouse is sent to the Indian Ocean to investigate several ship sinkings caused by ghost-like buses that vanish. | |||||
58 | 17 | "The Trip to America" | Brian Cosgrove | Mike Harding and Brian Trueman | 1 November 1982 |
Danger Mouse travels to the United States where he teams up with a Texan to defeat Greenback, who has shrunk and stolen the world's greatest buildings. |
Series 4 (1983)
Series 4 stories were originally each aired in five 5-minute segments over five consecutive days. This series was the longest-lived with 45 episodes. VHS and DVD releases usually see these episodes edited together as one 25-minute episode, although in reality, these omnibus episodes run closer to 20 minutes as they lose David Jason's 'cliffhanger' narration over the "To be continued..." captions. On the VHS and DVD releases, the "Episode 1" suffix in the title card after the opening credits has often been left unaltered. The US DVD releases retain the original 5-min segment format.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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59 | 1 | The Wild, Wild, Goose Chase "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 3 January 1983 |
60 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 4 January 1983 |
61 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 5 January 1983 |
62 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 6 January 1983 |
63 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 7 January 1983 |
Danger Mouse finds a computerised hideout locator which leads him to Baron Greenback's hideouts. | |||||
64 | 6 | The Return of Count Duckula "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 10 January 1983 |
65 | 7 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 11 January 1983 |
66 | 8 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 12 January 1983 |
67 | 9 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 13 January 1983 |
68 | 10 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Brian Trueman | 14 January 1983 |
Agent 57, the master of disguise, helps Danger Mouse defeat Count Duckula who has teamed up with Greenback to turn Parliament show-biz crazy. | |||||
69 | 11 | Demons Aren't Dull "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 17 January 1983 |
70 | 12 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 18 January 1983 |
71 | 13 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 19 January 1983 |
72 | 14 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 January 1983 |
73 | 15 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 21 January 1983 |
A Demon from the fourth dimension dares Danger Mouse to stop him from stealing famous buildings. | |||||
74 | 16 | 150 Million Years Lost "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 11 April 1983 |
75 | 17 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 12 April 1983 |
76 | 18 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 13 April 1983 |
77 | 19 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 14 April 1983 |
78 | 20 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 15 April 1983 |
Danger Mouse must rescue Penfold after Professor Squakencluck's time machine sends Penfold back in time. | |||||
79 | 21 | Planet of the Cats "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 18 April 1983 |
80 | 22 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 19 April 1983 |
81 | 23 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 April 1983 |
82 | 24 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 21 April 1983 |
83 | 25 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 22 April 1983 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold end up in the future where the world is ruled by cats who are taking orders from a descendent of Greenback. | |||||
84 | 26 | Four Heads Are Better Than Two "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 25 April 1983 |
85 | 27 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 26 April 1983 |
86 | 28 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 April 1983 |
87 | 29 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 28 April 1983 |
88 | 30 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 29 April 1983 |
Colonel K teams Danger Mouse up with a robot Penfold and Penfold with a robot Danger Mouse so, one pair can help Agent 57 and the other can capture Greenback. | |||||
89 | 31 | Tower of Terror "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 9 May 1983 |
90 | 32 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 10 May 1983 |
91 | 33 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 11 May 1983 |
92 | 34 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 12 May 1983 |
93 | 35 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 13 May 1983 |
Danger Mouse tracks Greenback down to a New York City skyscraper where strange things happen to the World's Greatest Secret Agent. | |||||
94 | 36 | The Great Bone Idol "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 16 May 1983 |
95 | 37 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 17 May 1983 |
96 | 38 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 18 May 1983 |
97 | 39 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 19 May 1983 |
98 | 40 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 May 1983 |
Count Duckula and Greenback team up to find the Bone Idol which can control all the dogs in the world. | |||||
99 | 41 | Public Enemy No. 1 "Episode 1" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 23 May 1983 |
100 | 42 | "Episode 2" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 24 May 1983 |
101 | 43 | "Episode 3" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 25 May 1983 |
102 | 44 | "Episode 4" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 26 May 1983 |
103 | 45 | "Episode 5" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 May 1983 |
It is up to Penfold to stop Danger Mouse when he takes up a life of crime. |
Series 5 (1984)
Series 5 episodes are 10 minutes each, and originally aired on Mondays with no commercial breaks.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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104 | 1 | "The Long Lost Crown Affair" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 February 1984 |
Greenback ruins a holiday for Danger Mouse and Penfold who are in the Amazon jungle searching for the long lost crown that belonged to an Aztec ruler. Title reference: The Thomas Crown Affair | |||||
105 | 2 | "By George, It's a Dragon!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 February 1984 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold travel to Wales to battle a dragon called Jones. | |||||
106 | 3 | "Tiptoe Through the Penfolds" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 5 March 1984 |
Greenback reveals his new invention: a duplication machine he plans to use to duplicate himself into hundreds of Greenbacks so that no-one would find him (the real one). He creates a duplicate of Penfold to test it; however, the machine malfunctions and leaves him (and soon also leaves Danger Mouse) with hundreds of Penfolds to deal with. Meanwhile, with the real Penfold giving a reading for the Annual Conference of Cowards Anonymous at the 'Chicken Farm', Danger Mouse is left to investigate the case by himself. Title reference: Tiptoe Through the Tulips | |||||
107 | 4 | "Project Moon" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 12 March 1984 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold journey to the moon to put a radio jamming station Greenback has built there out of operation. | |||||
108 | 5 | "The Next Ice Age Begins at Midnight.." | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 19 March 1984 |
Greenback threatens to use his weather control machine to create an ice age if he is not crowned king of the world. | |||||
109 | 6 | "The Aliens Are Coming" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 26 March 1984 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold are chosen as Ambassadors to meet aliens and end up being terrorized by their giant toys. Title reference: Paul Revere's warning, "The British are Coming!" | |||||
110 | 7 | "Remote Controlled Chaos" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 2 April 1984 |
Greenback makes a device to control DM's car. | |||||
111 | 8 | "The Man from Gadget" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 9 April 1984 |
A salesman of gadgets for secret agents tries to sell Danger Mouse devices which will help him in reaching Greenback's hard to reach hideout. Title reference: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | |||||
112 | 9 | "Tampering with Time Tickles" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 16 April 1984 |
Greenback develops age-altering bombs which turn Danger Mouse into an over eager youth and puts Penfold on the verge of senility. | |||||
113 | 10 | "Nero Power" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 30 April 1984 |
Nero gains strange powers (telekenesis), which, he uses to terrorize Danger Mouse and Penfold, after he falls into one of Greenback's inventions. |
Series 6 (1984–85)
Series 6 episodes are 10 minutes each, and originally aired on Thursdays with no commercial breaks (except for the first episode, which aired on a Tuesday). 19 of the episodes (Once Upon A Timeslip and 18 other episodes) show the copyright year as 1984, although for eight episodes ("Viva Danger Mouse", "Hear! Hear!", "Multiplication Fable", "The Spy Who Stayed in With a Cold", "Alping is Snow Easy Matter", "One of Our Stately Homes is Missing", "Ee-Tea!" and "Tut, Tut, it's Not Pharaoh!") the year is shown as 1983.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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114 | 1 | "Once upon a Timeslip..." | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 25 December 1984 |
Penfold and Danger Mouse get transported to the year 1215 thanks to a fluke in the narrator's microphone. They'll now have to act out a twisted version of Robin Hood. Starring Danger Mouse as Robin Hood, Penfold as Little John and Greenback as the Sheriff of Nottingham. | |||||
115 | 2 | "Viva Danger Mouse" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 3 January 1985 |
Greenback raids Mexico's cacti to plant the pins in the most important cushions in Britain. | |||||
116 | 3 | "Play it again Wufgang" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Nigel Rutter and Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 10 January 1985 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold go after a mad composer who has destroyed all the world's music. They must rely on an emergency audio cassette player to help them with their latest mission. | |||||
117 | 4 | "Hear Hear" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 17 January 1985 |
Penfold's hearing problems make him immune to a device that brainwashes anyone who hears Greenback's voice. | |||||
118 | 5 | "Multiplication Fable" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Brian Cosgrove Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 24 January 1985 |
An alien pet escapes from a crash-landed spaceship and it multiplies whenever something touches it, making its capture difficult. The episode is a parody of the Star Trek episode, Trouble with Tribbles. | |||||
119 | 6 | "The Spy Who Stayed In with a Cold" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 31 January 1985 |
Agent 57 teams up with Danger Mouse to defeat Baron Greenback when Penfold stays home with a cold; the only problem is 57 gets it too and every time he sneezes, he changes disguise. Title reference: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | |||||
120 | 7 | "It's All White, White Wonder" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 7 February 1985 |
An experimental enzyme escapes into the sewers and turns everything it comes in contact with white. | |||||
121 | 8 | "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 14 February 1985 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold end up in a time-traveling clock when they investigate an attempted robbery of the crown jewels. | |||||
122 | 9 | "What a 3 Point Turn-up for the Book" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 21 February 1985 |
Danger Mouse goes after his car, which has somehow developed a malignant mind of its own, keeping Danger Mouse from attending an award ceremony. | |||||
123 | 10 | "Quark! Quark!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 28 February 1985 |
Penfold is instrumental in keeping alien, J.J. Quark, from taking over the Earth. | |||||
124 | 11 | "Alping is Snow Easy Matter" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 7 March 1985 |
Greenback is melting the polar ice caps to cause a flood and open up a market to sell rubber rafts at inflated prices. | |||||
125 | 12 | "Aaagghg!! Spiders!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 14 March 1985 |
With Greenback on vacation in Paris (seen attempting to sell the Eiffel Tower—of which he has ownership—for $10million), Stiletto uses a ray to create giant spiders to take over London. | |||||
126 | 13 | "One of our Stately Homes Is Missing" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 21 March 1985 |
Danger Mouse assists B.L.E.E.P. in recovering an old English home that is being held for ransom. | |||||
127 | 14 | "Afternoon Off with the Fangboner!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 28 March 1985 |
The alien J.J. Quark returns and sends a Fangboner to attack Danger Mouse. | |||||
128 | 15 | "Beware of Mexicans Delivering Milk" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 4 April 1985 |
Penfold must defeat El Loco after he drugs Danger Mouse's milk. | |||||
129 | 16 | "CATastrophe" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 11 April 1985 |
Greenback creates a mechanical cat that kidnaps Colonel K. | |||||
130 | 17 | "The Good the Bad and the Motionless" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 18 April 1985 |
Danger Mouse investigates strange goings-on at Stonehenge only to battle his evil alter-ego. Title reference: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | |||||
131 | 18 | "Statues" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 25 April 1985 |
Greenback devises a ray that animates London's statues and causes them to wreak havoc. | |||||
132 | 19 | "The Clock Strikes Back" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 2 May 1985 |
The clock returns with Merlin's predecessor as its passenger and it's up to Danger Mouse and Penfold to stop the wizard from taking over the world. Title reference: The Empire Strikes Back | |||||
133 | 20 | "Ee-Tea!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 9 May 1985 |
Greenback has London at a standstill after he steals all of the world's tea. Title Reference: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. | |||||
134 | 21 | "Bandits Beans and Ballyhoo!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 23 May 1985 |
Unpacking from a holiday in Mexico, Penfold discovers El Loco hiding in his suitcase. El Loco gets loose and goes on a crime spree in London. | |||||
135 | 22 | "Have You Fled from any Good Books Lately?" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 30 May 1985 |
Penfold's gift from J.J. Quark sets monsters after Danger Mouse and Penfold. | |||||
136 | 23 | "Tut, Tut, It's not Pharaoh" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 6 June 1985 |
Greenback sets out to steal an ancient Egyptian amulet which Danger Mouse and Penfold have been sent to find. | |||||
137 | 24 | "Lost, Found and Spellbound" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 13 June 1985 |
Danger Mouse battles a witch doctor when he and Penfold go to rescue Professor Squakencluck whose plane crashed in the sea off China. | |||||
138 | 25 | "Penfold BF" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Brian Cosgrove Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 June 1985 |
Penfold swallows Professor Squakencluck's new pill and is turned into a superhero which causes Danger Mouse more problems than usual as he searches for a lost messenger pigeon. | |||||
139 | 26 | "Mechanised Mayhem" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 June 1985 |
Under orders from a supercomputer, all the world's machines mutiny and refuse to do their jobs. | |||||
140 | 27 | "Journey to the Earth's Cor!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Brian Cosgrove Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 25 December 1985 |
Penfold and Danger Mouse journey to the center of the Earth to stop a loud noise that originates there. Title reference: Journey to the Center of the Earth |
Series 7 (1986)
Series 7 episodes are 25 minutes each, and originally aired on Thursdays with no commercial breaks.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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141 | 1 | "DM on the Orient Express" | Chris Randall | Story by: Chris Randall Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 13 November 1986 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold travel on the Orient Express with a document they obtained from Greenback. Title reference: Murder on the Orient Express | |||||
142 | 2 | "The Ultra Secret Secret" | Chris Randall | Story by: Jean Flynn Screenplay by: Angus Allan | 20 November 1986 |
Greenback offers to team up with Danger Mouse in order to thwart an alien invasion. | |||||
143 | 3 | "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat" | Chris Randall | Story by: Keith Scoble and Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 November 1986 |
Count Duckula teams up with Dr Frankenstoat to take over the world with a vampire magic machine. | |||||
144 | 4 | "Where There's a Well There's a Way" | Chris Randall | Story by: Keith Scoble and Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 4 December 1986 |
Danger Mouse is sent to find Merlin's magic ink well which will grant the finder a wish. However, Copper-Conk Cassidy is on his tail, after eavesdropping the information given from Colonel K, with desires of using the well to rule the world. | |||||
145 | 5 | "All Fall Down" | Chris Randall | Story by: Keith Scoble and Angus Allan Screenplay by: Angus Allan | 11 December 1986 |
Danger Mouse must recover plans to a top secret device capable of shattering the world. The device's blueprint is revealed to be stolen by the snake villain, Mac the Fork, who teams up with his friend, the owl chemist Dudley Poyson, who is capable of inventing the device. | |||||
146 | 6 | "Turn of the Tide" | Chris Randall | Story by: Chris Randall Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 18 December 1986 |
Danger Mouse travels to the moon and discovers it has been turned into a scrap yard, which has caused the tide to change and flood the Earth. |
Series 8 (1987)
Series 8 episodes were 10 minutes each, and originally aired on Fridays with no commercial breaks. This series was the shortest-lived with just two episodes. Some sources such as the book 'The Guinness Book of Classic British TV' by Paul Cornell et al. list these episodes as theoretically belonging to the fifth or sixth series. It states that some episodes were often held back and not broadcast until years later as part of a repeats season. This would seem to be supported by the copyright information in the end credits, as both are dated 1983 (as per series 5 episodes and some Series 6 episodes).
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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147 | 1 | "Gremlin Alert" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 20 February 1987 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold set out to stop the illogical Gremlin from turning Earth's sunlight into darkness. | |||||
148 | 2 | "Cor! What a Picture!" | Brian Cosgrove | Story by: Angus Allan Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 27 February 1987 |
Greenback uses Penfold to kill Danger Mouse by stealing a picture of Penfold for use in a mind control machine. |
Series 9 (1991–92)
Series 9 episodes were 22 minutes each and originally aired on Thursdays. The show's appearance changed noticeably with this series, now brighter and with altered artwork - most notably to Danger Mouse himself.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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149 | 1 | "I Spy with My Little Eye..." | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 3 January 1991 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold are sent to the Arctic when Greenback threatens to melt the polar icecaps with sun lamps. | |||||
150 | 2 | "Bigfoot Falls" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert | 10 January 1991 |
Danger Mouse and Penfold are sent to track down a huge hairy monster that has been crushing the local villages. When they find it, they discover he's actually friendly, but suffers from extreme bouts of sore-feet. They get help from the RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Podiatrists. | |||||
151 | 3 | "The Statue of Liberty Caper" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Brian Cosgrove Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 9 January 1992 |
Danger Mouse is sent to stop Greenback who is behind the theft of America's greatest buildings. | |||||
152 | 4 | "Penfold Transformed" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Chris Randall Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 16 January 1992 |
Dr Crumhorn holds Penfold captive and has created a robot duplicate of him (which is far more efficient than the original). At the push of a button, it transforms into a giant machine intent on destroying Danger Mouse and his pillar box. Meanwhile, envious of Crumhorn's own plan, Greenback has Stiletto disguised as Penfold in costume in his attempt to hack into Danger Mouse's pillar box. | |||||
153 | 5 | "A Dune with a View" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert | 23 January 1992 |
The Mark III runs out of fuel, leaving DM and Penfold stranded in the Sahara Desert. | |||||
154 | 6 | "Don Coyote and Sancho Penfold" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Chris Randall Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 30 January 1992 |
While on holiday in Spain, Penfold is kidnapped by a mad Coyote who thinks he is Don Quixote. They go tilting at a windmill that happens to contain Baron Greenback's latest device for world domination. |
Series 10 (1992)
Series 10 episodes were 22 minutes each, and originally aired on Thursdays with no commercial breaks. The book 'The Guinness Book of Classic British TV' by Paul Cornell et al. lists these episodes as a continuation of the ninth series. This was the final series of the show's original run.
No. overall | No. for series | Title | Director | Writer | Original airdate |
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155 | 1 | "Crumhorn Strikes Back!" | Keith Scoble | Brian Trueman | 6 February 1992 |
Dr Crumhorn returns and uses his transformation pills to turn himself into a little girl in an attempt to get Danger Mouse to break into Fort Knox. This episode is seemingly treated as an introduction to Dr Crumhorn; hence it is a possible prequel to "Penfold Transformed" (in his debut appearance). Title reference: The Empire Strikes Back | |||||
156 | 2 | "Ants, Trees and... Whoops-A-Daisy" | Keith Scoble | Brian Trueman | 13 February 1992 |
Just as Penfold should be meeting his Aunt at the airport, he and Danger Mouse are sent to the Amazon jungle where a tribe have been sacrificing people to The Great Ant God from Ataxia. Penfold is captured -the tribe thinking his eyebrows are "magic caterpillars"- and things look grim, but then, Penfold's Aunt arrives from a taxi and tells them all to stop playing silly games. | |||||
157 | 3 | "There's a Penfold in my Suit" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Brian Cosgrove Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert | 20 February 1992 |
Penfold puts on Danger Mouse's suit and can't get out, causing Colonel K to think he is Danger Mouse. Later, DM and Penfold go to Bratislavakia to find out why all the countries of Central Europe have swapped places. There, they, Greenback and Stiletto all fall foul of a mystical stone that causes people to swap bodies. | |||||
158 | 4 | "Rhyme and Punishment" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert | 27 February 1992 |
Dr Crumhorn "Ka-zonks" DM and Penfold into a hallucinatory world in an attempt to drive them crazy. Title reference: Crime and Punishment | |||||
159 | 5 | "Pillow Fright!" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble and Jonathan Trueman Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert and Trevor Hyatt | 5 March 1992 |
Greenback attempts to take over England with his latest invention...an army of remote control, allergy causing pillows. | |||||
160 | 6 | "Heavy Duty" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble and Jonathan Trueman Screenplay by: Brian Trueman | 12 March 1992 |
Crumhorn invents a chemical that allows him to create land sharks to terrorize London. Things get even more complicated when Penfold eats some of the formula. | |||||
161 | 7 | "The Intergalactic 147" | Keith Scoble | Story by: Keith Scoble Screenplay by: Jimmy Hibbert | 19 March 1992 |
A giant spaceship is spotted heading for Earth. It's part of the "Intergalactic 147" snooker game and it wants to pot the Earth into a black hole. This is the series finale. |
Notes
- The first 4 series were all dated 1980.
- Series 5 was dated 1983.
- For the syndicated market, notably for Nickelodeon, the first 5 series were all dated 1984.
- Series 7 was dated 1985.
- Series 9 and Series 10 were dated 1990.
- At the end of the 7th, 9th & 10th series, the copyright under the DM logo has changed to COSGROVE HALL FILMS instead of the usual 'A Cosgrove Hall Films Production For Thames Television Ltd.' logo with a copyright under that caption.