Dizzy Heights (1990)

Country

United Kingdom

Length

4 seasons, 27 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two bumbling managers run a seaside hotel badly. A puppet family living in the hotel causes chaos for them.

chaoticslapsticklightheartedzanynostalgicquirkyfast-pacedwhimsical

What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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