Dizzy Heights (1990)
- Genre
- Children
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 3 seasons, 27 episodes
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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