Huxley Pig was a stop-motion animated children's television series from the late 1980s. Based on the picture books by Rodney Peppe, the series was produced by FilmFair for Central TV .
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General Theme
The main character, Huxley Pig, was always dreaming of adventure, exciting professions and encounters. At the start of each episode Huxley would be in his bedroom talking to Sam the squawking seagull and wondering about something. He would open his big suitcase of dress-up clothes, try something on and say, "Hmmm, I wonder". The picture would fade and be taken away into his dreams for the rest of the story. In the dream, Sam the Seagull would be able to speak, in a Cockney accent, and there were many wonderful characters such as:
- Vile Vincent, the vampire pig-butler
- Horace, a hamster
- Cuddles, a fanged green beast
- Sam, a snake
The adventures took Huxley and the gang to many places, as long as there was food nearby. Food was close to Huxley's heart. What is curious about the show is that while Sam the Seagull is, as in reality, only able to speak English in dream sequences Huxley, who is clearly a pig, is able to speak in everyday life. Equally baffling is the fact that he lives in a house (by the sea), wears clothes and walks on his hind legs. One theory put forward by critics is that Huxley Pig is set in a disturbing alternate universe where Pigs take the place of humans as the dominant species and humans have been relegated to the position of truffle snuffling, stye-dwelling livestock.
Huxley Pig episodes[1]
CINDERELLA (18/12/1990) Ski-ing (11/12/1990) Village Fete (04/12/1990) Breakfast TV (27/11/1990) DECORATOR (20/11/1990) The SNOW MONSTER (07/06/1990) Hairdresser (17/07/1989) Flying (17/07/1989) DESERT EXPLORER (17/07/1989) Home Movie (17/07/1989) The Restaurant (17/07/1989) The Big Top (17/07/1989) Smugglers (17/07/1989) Fishing (17/07/1989) The Beach (17/07/1989) Space (17/07/1989) Stone Age (17/07/1989) MAGICIAN (17/07/1989) The Sea monster (17/07/1989) The Restaurant (10/07/1989) The Big top (03/07/1989) The Beach (26/06/1989) Camping (12/06/1989) The Desert Island (12/06/1989) The Haunted house (12/06/1989) The CIRCUS (05/06/1989)
Production Staff
- Director of Animation
- Martin Pullen
- Producer
- Jo Pullen
- Executive Producers
- Barrie Edwards, David Yates, Lewis Rudd
- Music
- Herbert Chappell
- Animators
- John Gilluley, David Johnson
- Camera Assistant
- Paul Street
- Model Makers
- Alan Murphy, Heather Boucher
- Costumes
- Lizzie Agnew
- Puppet Makers
- Justin Exley, Pauline London
- Production Manager
- Kath Swain
- Editors
- Andi Sloss, Robert Dunbar
- Assistant Editor
- Jackie Munro
- Voices
- Martin Jarvis
Spinoffs
A computer game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum was released in 1990 by Alternative SW.
