Gideon (TV series)

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Gideon was an early 1980's animated UK children's television series.

This basic animation was centered around Gideon, a duck with an unusually long neck. Gideon's abnormality was the subject of cruel taunts and jibes from the other ducks - who all had normal length necks - but good always came out in the end.

Gideon originated as a series of French storybooks, written by Benjamin Rabier in the 1920s, under the name Gédéon. In the 1970s French television produced the cartoon series, which was then sold to a UK television company^{[citation needed]} and made into an English-language version.

Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor narrated the series, as well as providing all the voices - he estimates^{[citation needed]} he had to do around 57 voices in all for the various characters, which included Winston the circus dog, Cornelia the tortoise, Stalker the poacher and even flying rabbits.

[edit] External links

• Gideon at The Eighties Zone