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Bertha

1985

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EP1 The Great Painting Job Apr 01, 1985

Bertha is making jixsaw puzzles, only to leave pieces back and making a picture of her own, so the workers have to re-do the puzzles. Meanwhile, Mr. Sprot's assistant Tracey designs a handy robot called TOM to help Mr. Wilmake and Miss. MacClakety paint their office.

EP2 The Windmills Apr 15, 1985

Bertha is making Musical Windmill Money Boxes which plays music whenever money is put in. However, Roy discovers that when the money's in, you can't get it out! Everyone thinks that the Windmills are not designed properly. Meanwhile, Flo loses her purse with all her money in it...

EP3 A Mouse in the Works Apr 22, 1985

Bertha is making Jack-in-the-boxes that fail to stay inside the box! When Panjit loads the remaining toys to the dispatch department, he sees holes in the boxes. Roy, asking for a tin of glue, rushes off to tell Mr. Duncan about the situation. It's soon discovered that a mouse is venturing around the factory, chewing on things and creeping inside Bertha! So Mr. Sprot has to design a mouse trap...

EP4 The Best Machine Competition Apr 29, 1985

Bertha is making Spinning Tops that won't stop spinning! Meanwhile, Mr. Sprot is asked to make 'The Most Unusual Toy' by Mr. Wilmake. Mr. Duncan, the foreman, decides that the new Super Bumper Compresser Machine should do the job, which upsets Bertha...

EP5 Tom Gets Lost May 13, 1985

Tom the robot causes confusion when a magnet upsets his circuitry.

EP6 The Flying Bear May 20, 1985

Why are the plastic bears made by Bertha getting bigger and bigger?

EP7 The Tea Nurse Jun 03, 1985

Bertha has a faulty lever, but Mrs Tupp comes to the rescue.

EP8 More Speed, Less Work Nov 05, 1985

Mr Duncan does a time and motion study whilst Bertha makes garden gnomes and a special gnome for Panjid.

EP9 The Big Order Nov 12, 1985

Bertha has to make 365 new springs, but Tom and Roy have trouble with the twanging steel.

EP10 The Burglars Nov 19, 1985

Bertha is making Jumping Kangaroos. When Ted accidently sets one off, the others in the boxes jump around the factory! When the batteries run down, it's closing time, so Ted stops Bertha and they go home. That night, however, TOM spots burglars enter the factory and into Mr. Wilmake's safe...

EP11 Bertha's Birthday Party Nov 26, 1985

Bertha is busy making cuckoo clocks when Miss McClackerty discovers that it's time for a birthday celebration.

EP12 The Big Sneeze Apr 16, 1986

Bertha gets so cold that the beach balls she makes look like snowballs.

EP13 Tom's New Friend Jun 18, 1986

Mrs Tupp is cross about a new machine that is delivered, but Tom thinks that it is a new friend.
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Synopsis

Bertha is a British stop motion-animated children's television series about a factory machine of that name, comprising 13 episodes that aired from 1985 to 1986. Other major characters in the series were Mr Willmake, Mr Sprott and Tracy. All the characters were designed by Ivor Wood, and the series was produced by his company, Woodland Animations. It was broadcast on BBC Television. A series of six storybooks based on Bertha was published by André Deutsch at the same time as the series was broadcast. They were adapted by Eric Charles and illustrated by Steve Augarde, who was also responsible for the artwork and music in the children's series Bump.

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LouHomey From my favorite movies..
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
jessie-montgomery Totlay one of the best TV shows around, I have this on VHS and I watch it today! It's songs, Music, characters were the best! Go Ted! Go T.O.M! who remembers the song for T.O.M? :Talk. Opirated. Machine! It ruled! hope you love it to.Cumon people bring back Bertha!Thank's for reading, rate Bertha high!Bertha, lovely Bertha! Sometimes i think you're a dream! When we work out what you have to do, we can always get the goods out, always get the goods out, We can depend upon you! (^-')
greenbank This was brilliant - a machine with a face that could make just about anything just in time to satisfy the needs of the people who worked with her - especially good old Panjit, the warehouse guy, whose odd Indo-Welsh accent sticks in my mind to this day. Sorted. With her wavy arm things and numerous bells and whistles a small child could actually believe that this big green machine was alive - Bertha kicks Charlie Chalk's ass any day, and is up there with Jimbo and the Jet Set as one of the top programs of my childhood. (Plus Bertha had the advantage that, when laughing, the characters did not actually say the word "chortle" as Jimbo and his cohorts were prone to).
adam jackson i love this series and as it only did 13 episodes it will be one cartoon series that was very short but still one of the best ever made. forget your new cartoons this is what the kids of today should be watching. i just wish that they would release them all on one DVD as they only sell on DVD that has 4 episodes on it which really is not good enough. i know that they will not carry on the series as roy kinnear died in 1989 while filming the return of the Musketeers, if they did it would not be the same as the original. more people need to write to the bbc to get them released on DVD and get it into the kids of todays TV and stop them watching cheap rubbish that is made so quickly it just doesn't make good viewing.
DOREENCROMPTON Who can forget this 'claymation' TV show, with it's catchy theme tune? Everyone, it looks like. Bertha, the machine that can make anything....the little robot that moved up and down with a bizarre flatulent-esque sound....the charming ambience of a factory machine that could make anything? Somebody must remember this! I sure do. Shame on you people that haven't posted here. This was a mini-classic of the eighties and early nineties, with an animation style similar to its successor, the inferior Charlie Chalk. It's time this got a little recognition: it certainly stuck in my mind as an impressionable youngster...