Danger Mouse (1981)

Scenes from childhood: Cartoons (32 tv items)

"I watched Danger Mouse a lot when I was young. Animal characters are hard to beat when you're in elementary school. "

A lesson in the surreal

“As a kid, the 80s cartoon DangerMouse was one of the few bits of essential lunchtime viewing, being on sometime around 1pm on Channel 4. It was probably the most entertaining thing on during the day at that age, but unlike most other classic 80s kids TV, amazingly it still holds up to scrutiny when 4 times the age and certainly family viewing.

The premise of the show is fairly simple - one of the world's greatest secret agents, DangerMouse, stars alongside a somewhat cowardly and timid sidekick, Penfold (a Hamster), in a series of adventures, invariably saving the world in one way or another - by conincidence or design.

Where the cartoon differs from many other family shows is in it's use of parody and the surreal. Rather than taking the British spy idea seriously Cosgr” read more