Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (1991)

Original title

Victor & Hugo, Bunglers in Crime

Genre

animation, comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 30 episodes

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two bumbling criminals try to commit crimes but always mess things up. Their schemes go wrong in funny ways.

sillygoofylightheartedbouncycartoonishwackyfast-paced

What happens

Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (also known as Victor & Hugo) is a British crime comedy animated series made by Cosgrove Hall Productions for Thames Television and broadcast on Children's ITV from 6 September 1991 to 29 December 1992. Its eponymous characters were based on the villains Gaston and Pierre from the 1988–1993 series Count Duckula. Victor & Hugo was Cosgrove Hall's second cel-animated production to be assisted by the Spanish animation studio Alfonso Productions, as well as their last cel-animated project before the collapse of Thames Television (who lost the 1991 ITV regional franchise round to Carlton Television as a result of bidding too low a month after it premiered, and as such, none of its thirty episodes were ever seen more than once in the United Kingdom). However, it was later repeated on television in Germany as well as Cyprus, Gibraltar, Bosnia, Belize and the Falkland Islands on the military television network BFBS (and its former channel SSVC Television). Unlike most other Thames Television-era Cosgrove Hall series, Victor & Hugo was never released on DVD (except for its first episode, "Panda-Monium", which was released as part of a Cosgrove Hall-based compilation disc called "Most Wanted Classic Kids' TV" by its former distributor, Fremantle International, on 14 April 2003, but as with their other Cosgrove Hall-based DVDs, this is now out of print). It was also the last Cosgrove Hall show to feature the voices of Brian Trueman and David Jason, and featured guest appearances from many of the company's earlier characters, including Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Soames and Potson, and even Damson Bunhandler (a pig newscaster from two episodes of Danger Mouse, who started three episodes with reports about the brothers' most recent crimes). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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