Gophers!

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Gophers!
The Gopher family in the Kitchen
Format	Live Action, Puppet Show
Created by	Mark Mason
Starring	Lou Hirsch Francis Wright Erik Collinson Jeremy Stockwell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	13
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	1990 – 1990

Gophers! was a Channel 4 children's programme about a family of American gophers who move into a new neighbourhood, called Sycamore Heights, living next door to a family of uptight but well-intentioned rabbits, The Burrows.

There were many recurring jokes within this short lived show such as Arthur Burrows' vegetables planning a rebellion to escape his garden, also a mad scientist ferret called Dr Wince, whose ambition was to conquer the world by obtaining a crystal buried in the Gophers' garden with the help of his reptilian servant Sly, and an alien in love with a zucchini determined to get home. Also there were Mexican cockroaches who lived in the Gophers house always trying to steal their food.