{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox television | image = The Blunders title card.png | caption = Title card | alt_name = | genre = Children's television series | creator = Colin Voisey<br>Haydn Morgan | writer = Ian Sachs | director = Ian Sachs | creative_director = | voices = Frankie Howerd | narrator = Frankie Howerd | theme_music_composer = | composer = Chris Stuart | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_series = 1 | num_episodes = 30 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = Graham Clutterbuck | producer = Barrie Edwards | editor = Robert Dunbar | camera = Mark Taylor | runtime = 5 minutes | company = FilmFair | channel = ITV (CITV) | first_aired = {{Start date|df=yes|1986|04|22}} | last_aired = {{End date|df=yes|1986|06|04}} }} '''''The Blunders''''' is an animated children's television series co-produced by FilmFair and Central Independent Television, and broadcast on ITV in 1986. It was written and directed by Ian Sachs.
Colin Voisey and Haydn Morgan created the show's characters: Ma Blunder, Pa Blunder, Bobby Blunder, Baby Blunder, a cat named Zebra, a dog named Trouble, and an eye-patched bird named Patch. The comedian Frankie Howerd did all their voices. They all live together in the town of Villa Shambles, where they keep finding trouble because of their clumsiness. In the episode "The Blunder Family Tree", the Blunders find that their ancestors lived in the Roman Empire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/487785 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526201025/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/487785 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 May 2009 |title=''The Blunders'': 'The Blunder Family Tree' |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |work=BFI Film & TV Database |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=5 January 2013}}</ref>
==Episodes== {{No plot|section|date=August 2021}} {{Episode table |total_width=70 |background=#A12F02 |overall=6 |title=30 |airdate=20 |episodes=
{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = At the Circus | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|22|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = Looking After Doris | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = Central Heating | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|24|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = Dog Bath | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|25|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = House of Horror | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|28|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = Dogs Don't Migrate | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|29|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = Ye Blunder and Ye Dragon | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|30|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = U.F.O. Spotting | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|1|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = The Trouble with Trouble | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|2|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = At the Manor | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|6|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = On the Run | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|7|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = Lucky | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|8|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = Beau Blunder | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|9|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | Title = The Invisible Blunder | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|12|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | Title = Life of Spudnook | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|13|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | Title = School Report | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|14|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | Title = Bobby and the Prune Stone | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|15|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | Title = An Aunt in Time | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|16|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | Title = The Idle Idol | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|19|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | Title = Stage Struck | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|20|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | Title = Dog Diet | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|21|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | Title = The Burglar | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|22|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 23 | Title = Never Kiss a Frog | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|23|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 24 | Title = The Double Act | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|27|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 25 | Title = The Blunder Family Tree | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|28|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 26 | Title = The Genie | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|29|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 27 | Title = The Bugs Meringue Gang | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|5|30|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 28 | Title = Ma Goes Ape | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|6|2|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 29 | Title = Invasion of the Burglar Snatchers | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|6|3|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 30 | Title = On the Landscape | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|6|4|df=y}} | ShortSummary = | LineColor = A12F02 }} }}
==Home releases== Castle Vision distributed episodes of the series on VHS videotape. Each tape features 10 episodes.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
==See also== * The Stupids
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * {{cite web |url=http://www.toonhound.com/blunders.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040312200221/http://www.toonhound.com/blunders.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 March 2004 |title=''The Blunders'' |last=Diamond |first=Frazer |work=Toonhound |publisher=Frazer Diamond |accessdate=5 January 2013}} *[https://archive.today/20130423185642/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/5823 ''The Blunders''] at the BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 6 January 2013. . Retrieved 6 January 2013. *{{IMDb title|0396290|The Blunders}}. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.dhxmedia.com/shows/animation/blundersthe.html}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blunders, The}} Category:1986 British television series debuts Category:1986 British television series endings Category:1980s British children's television series Category:1980s British animated television series Category:Animated television series about families Category:British children's animated television shows Category:ITV children's television shows Category:English-language British television shows Category:Television series by WildBrain Category:Television series by FilmFair Category:Television series by ITV Studios Category:Television shows produced by Central Independent Television Category:ITV animated television series