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"The Silence of the Flumps"
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The Flumps Episode Guide

Secrets
The Cloud
The Magnet
Get Your Skates On
Moon Shot
Balloons
Keep Fit
Something Different
Lend A Hand
Quiet Please
Grandfather's Birthday
What A Carrot
Where's Grandfather?

 

 

 

Interview with Alan Rogers, part creator of Pigeon Street, Bod and the Flumps!! You submitted the questions.... here are his answers!

CATEGORY: THE FLUMPS

1) Dan from Knutsford: Question: What were the flumps made of?
The Flumps had Papier Mache bodies coated with fur, their facial features, hands and feet were made from Fymo, and their arms and legs were steel armatures clad with chamois leather.

2) Barry from England: Question: Is the program flumps on English television, and if so, what channel at what time, if not, could you possibly get in on English television, as I'm very interested in this scary looking programme!
I don't think its transmitted by any TV station anywhere right now. Though I can't imagine why you find it scary! It's available on DVD if you'd like to give yourself a fright.

3) Danielle C from W. Midlands: Question: Hi. No questions, just wanted to say I LOVED the Flumps when I was wee, and watched the episode where Pootle and the others are bored approx 10 million times! Pootle finds the moon in his bucket and the grandfather sings about his fishing trips... "He fished for fish, and he fished for chips...?" I bought the video on ebay and had a nice nostalgic day watching the same episode again.....and again. Thanks!
Hi Danielle, I'm from the West Midlands too....Dudley in fact. Glad you enjoyed the series. You obviously never got bored with Pootle being bored!

4) Stanley from Stanford: Question: I’m a newcomer to the flumps; I’d like to learn more about the flumps and the flump family!
They were round furry creatures that lived behind a wall on what looked like a derelict site. The wall was a bigger scale than the Flumps and was clearly a human construction. But although they inhabited a human world we never saw any humans. The stories were simply about their self-sufficient family life, and from their accents it would appear they were living somewhere in Yorkshire. The family was Grandfather, Mother, Father, and three children Posie, Perkin and the youngest Pootle. They all wore woolly hats and little else......oh except Posie who wore a bow....oh and Grandfather who had a flat cap.

5) Paul T from Plymouth/U.K: Question: Was there a record L.P released for the Flumps? I really enjoyed the music!
The music was composed by Paul Reade and the theme tune featured George Chisolm on trombone. There was an album of the music realeased years ago on vinyl and tape. The sheet music was even released in book form. I'm pretty sure that neither of these are avilable now. The DVD (still available) of course would have the music as part of the programmes.

6) Mary T from Southampton: Question: I work for a charity and we are in the process of raising our profile, with that in mind and because we put together Christmas parcels for seafarers which always include a woolly hat, I wonder if you would mind if we created a 'woolly hat person'. I am contacting you as I have just realised that there will be a similarity with The Flumps. I would appreciate your opinion.
I'm sure that the Flumps have no monopoly on woolly hats. The seafairers no doubt had them long before the Flumps were thought of. As long as your woolly hat person wasn't actually one of the Flumps, there'd be no problem. Good luck with it. I'm sure they're much appreciated on those cold nights at sea.

7) from 80sCartoons: Question: Did you have a favourite episode? Mine was the Magnet, I loved Pootle in that one!
I seem to remember that "Magnet" was the first episode shot, so you were witnessing Pootle's debut performance.
I don't know if I have a favourite episode, but the first airbrush painting I ever did was used in the "Clouds" episode....or was it called "Balloons"? Can't remember if that was one episode or two! It could have been used in both! Whichever....after that, airbrush became a very important technique for me since I used it extensively later on in Pigeon Street and pretty much ever since, (though I now use a less messy computer version). Also in that episode I did some cut-out animation where I made the artwork and manipulated it myself. Ever since then I've stuck to doing artwork only and my long term animation partner Peter Lang has done all the manipulation.

Many thanks to Alan for his great answers, and his time and patience!