| Flashback |
| Merchandise |
| Chorlton and the Wheelies DVDs (Region 2 - PAL) |
 Chorlton And The Wheelies
(Box Set) |
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 Chorlton And The Wheelies - Series 1 |
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 Chorlton
And The Wheelies - Series 2 |
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 Chorlton And The Wheelies - Series 3 |
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| Chorlton and the Wheelies DVDs (Region 1 - USA) |
| No Region 1 DVDs available on general release, at the moment. |
| Episodes |
| Series 1 (1976) |
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1. Happiness is Hatched 2. Happiness is Dragon Shaped 3. Chorlton Says it with Flowers 4. The Lost Wheelie 5. Chorlton and the Crime Wave 6. Chorlton gets his Wheels 7. The Great Drought 8. The Wheelhockey Derby 9. Many Happy Returns 10. The Dancing Lesson 11. The Day of the Grand Race 12. When the Band Played On and On 13. Chorlton's Gift of Happiness |
| Series 2 (1977) |
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1. The
Up and Down Plants 2. Toady Trouble 3. Tyred Out 4. Chorlton and the Silence Spell 5. Chorlton and the Singing Stones 6. Inside the Kettle 7. The Day of the See-Through Chorlton 8. Double Trouble 9. The Keep Fit Class 10. The Wishing Tree 11. Take Your Partners 12. Octoblob 13. Chorlton and the Snow Dragon Xmas Special : Chorlton and the Iceworld |
| Series 3 (1978) |
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1. Fenella
and the Face Fungus 2. Spot the Happiness Dragon 3. Queen Doris�s Silver Jubilee 4. Chorlton and the Spinning Spell 5. The Day the Lights Went Out 6. Free-Wheeling Fenella 7. Hop, Skip and Crunch 8. Hide and Shriek 9. Octoblob at Twilight 10. Pablo�s World 11. Skateboard Special 12. Some Like It Hot 13. Royal Wheelyworld Pipe Band |
| History |
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This wonderful show introduced you to a Happiness Dragon called Chorlton. A total of 40 episodes were made. |
| Each episode began with this catchy tune - |
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"Jump in we'll take you for a
spin, Hop on it's fun to come along and take a look at Wheelie World. You'll be surprised how good it
feels. To zoom around, and you'll wheel so merrily with me, 'Cos we've got Chorlton who's a
dragon, It's fun at anytime of
year. So put your wheels in second gear |
| Story |
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One day an egg appeared - a very large, very cheerful and very daft egg. The egg didn't want to stay an egg for very long, and it hatched. As soon as it hatched the spell on Wheelie world was broken. Everyone started to wake up, they started smiling and joking. |
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After this the Wheelies adopted Chorlton and he agreed to stay. |
| Cholton |
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He likes living with the Wheelies and helps them in their continuing struggle against Fenella. |
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Chorlton sounds a bit stupid, but don't let that fool you, he has a heart of gold and would do anything for you. He upsets Fenella constantly, because he's so nice and he calls her 'Little Old Lady' which makes her even madder. The trouble is that Chorlton doesn't realise this and thinks she is playing games with him. |
| Fenella |
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Fenella speaks with a strong welsh accent, so if you see a welsh person be warned they could be a witch! (only joking, so please don't write to me and complain). Also she's green and wears a Fez. |
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She was only happy when she was causing misery for others. Until Chorlton arrived, she was getting her own way, but now Chorlton tries to thwart her evil. She gets around by disappearing and re-appearing, but if she gets mad then she bounces in and out of the ground (with no hole). Her magic doesn't seem to work on Chorlton and she dislikes him. |
| Clapp Trapp Von Spill-da-Beans |
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Oh and he always speaks in rhyme. |
| The Toadies |
 The
Toadies, Fenella's fungus faced spies are everywhere (and they sound
Japanese). They get around by disappearing and re-appearing, and
report anything directly to Fenella. |
| Reilly |
 Reilly
is the Irish Telescope in Fenella's kettle. He was kidnapped by Fenella from the end of a pier. |
| The Spikers |
 The
Spikers are another of Fenella's henchmen, but don't seem to do much,
apart from hanging around with their mates the Toadies. |
| Clifford |
 Clifford is Fenella's
enormous son. You don't see much of him, apart from his leg and
boot (its strange you don't see his other leg?? I wonder if he hops
everywhere?).
He is a little bit thick, but doesn't seem to follow in Fenella's evil ways. |
| Zoomer |
 Zoomer
is a young wheelie boy who wears a flying cap. He's named Zoomer
because he is the fastest wheelie in wheelie world. |
| Jenny |
 Jenny
is a young wheelie girl with a pink face and ginger hair and freckles |
| King Otto and Queen Doris |
 They
are the King and Queen of Wheelie World. Queen Doris has a strong
liking for hats and constantly admires Chorlton's hat. |
| The Minister |
 He
is the Minister of all of the Wheelies. He takes himself too
seriously, but most Wheelies take him with a pinch of salt. |
| Gallery |
After the
success of Jamie and the Magic Torch, Cosgrove-Hall Productions moved
from cell animation into stop-motion model animation with Chorlton and
the Wheelies.
Wheelie World was
smothered in gloom and most of its inhabitants were asleep, miserable
and stuck fast. This wasn't what Wheelie World was supposed to
look like. The gloom was created by an evil witch called Fenella.
No one had noticed
the dragon that had emerged from the egg, and he was still asleep. When they did notice him, they didn't know what he was and thought he
looked strange because he had no wheels (which nearly everyone in
Wheelie World had) and Chorlton thought they were strange because they
didn't have any legs and no tale.
Chorlton
is a happiness dragon and appeared from nowhere and hatched from an
egg. On the inside of his egg it said 'Made in Chorlton-Come-Hardy',
so the Wheelies christened him Chorlton because he didn't have a name
(which Chorlton didn't mind).
Spout
hall is where Fenella the kettle witch lives. As the names
implies, she lives in a large steel steam kettle on top of a large black
kettle stand (I'm not sure that the tea would taste very nice -
yuk!). For here she spies upon the inhabitants of Wheelie World
using her Telescope and her spies.
Clapp
Trapp Von Spill-da-Beans is a German talking magic book and helps
Fenella cook up fiendish plans and magic against the inhabitants of
Wheelie World.