Dizzy Heights (TV series)
Appearance
Dizzy Heights | |
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Genre | Children's television |
Directed by | Claire Winyard |
Starring | Alan Heap Mick Wall |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 27 |
Production | |
Producers | Martin Fisher Martin Hughes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC |
Release | 15 February 1990 23 September 1993 | –
Dizzy Heights is a BBC television series about a disastrous partnership of two managers trying to run a seaside hotel. The show was about Mr Heap (played by Alan Heap) and Mr Wall's (played by Mick Wall) many adventures and regularly featured a Spitting Image style family of puppets called the Gristles who lived, and caused chaos, in the hotel.[1] The show ran for three years, from 1990 to 1993 and was shown on BBC1 as part of Children's BBC.
The Gristle family appeared in a series of their own called The House of Gristle in 1994.
Characters
[edit]- Mr Heap (played by Alan Heap)
- Mr Wall (played by Mick Wall)
- Rebecca Front
- Madam Visniskaye (played by Kate Robbins)
- Ivy (played by Hilary Mason)
- Rose (played by Aimée Delamain)
References
[edit]- ^ "BBC – Comedy Guide – Dizzy Heights". Archived from the original on 27 October 2004. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
External links
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Categories:
- 1990 British television series debuts
- 1993 British television series endings
- BBC children's television shows
- British television shows featuring puppetry
- British children's comedy television series
- Fictional hotels
- 1990s British children's television series
- British English-language television shows
- BBC Television show stubs
- British children's television show stubs