Mop and Smiff

Mop and Smiff
Genreanimation/Children's
Created byMike Amatt
Written byMike Amatt
Directed bySid Waddell
Voices ofTimothy West (Mop), Prunella Scales (Smiff)
Theme music composerMike Amatt
Opening theme"Two of a kind"
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series1
No. of episodes13
Production
ProducerDavid Brown
Running time15 minutes (Series)
Production companyBBC Manchester
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release1985 (1985) –
1986 (1986)

Mop and Smiff is a children's pre-school television programme, the first episode "The Hang Glider" was broadcast on 4 April 1985 on BBC1, the final episode "The Snow" aired on 1 January 1986. Repeats of the programme were shown on BBC2 until 1988. The show creator Mike Amatt also stars as himself with his dog Mop and cat Smiff.

Characters

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Mop is a shaggy-haired sheepdog.

Smiff is a bright-eyed tabby cat.

Mike, their owner, is an artist and storyteller.

Setting

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The show used a Portmanteau Format with a small cartoon show embedded inside a narrative. The show starts with detailing a day of Mike, Mop or Smiff in real camera recording format. When they return home later, Mike would use the day's events for artistic inspiration to draw a cartoon. The show cuts into Mike's imagined animated sub-story with Mop and Smiff as talking friends who care for each other and go on their own adventure.

Mike, Mop and the Moke

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A spin-off series, Mike, Mop and the Moke, was produced in 1985, and featured Amatt and Mop driving to various seaside towns in an Austin Champ.[1]

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