Pinky and Perky is a children's television series first broadcast by BBC TV in 1957, and revived in 2008 as an animated adaptation.

Background

The title characters are a pair of anthropomorphic singing puppet pigs, named Pinky and Perky. Pinky and Perky spoke and sang in high-pitched voices, created by re-playing original voice recordings at twice the original recorded speed; the vocals were sung by Mike Sammes. One episode of the series, "You Too Can Be a Prime Minister", was banned by the BBC for being too political; public outcry caused them to reinstate it.

In 1993, Pinky and Perky appeared regularly on The Pig Attraction, a CITV puppet-focused talk show, performing a song every week. The Pinky and Perky segments were made in collaboration with Jan and Vlasta Dalibor.

A CGI reboot of the show, titled The Pinky and Perky Show, was released in 2008. A comic strip based on the TV series was drawn by Jim Turnbull.

References

  • Watch The Pinky and Perky Show on BBC iplayer