The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

A Series 12 Song.

**The Official BBC Children in Need Medley** is a song from the twelfth series.

## Plot

Big Chris is on the phone, talking to Pudsey Bear. He gets Thomas, Bob, Pat, Wallace and Gromit, Pingu, Noddy, Basil Brush, Courage The Cowardly Dog, The Powerpuff Girls and the rest of the gang together.

The Official BBC Children in Need Medley is a single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. It is the official Children in Need Single for 2009, and was released on 21 November 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.

History

The project was carried out in top secret at the request of executive producer Peter Kay. Celebrities and voice artists who voiced characters' original vocals were brought in without being told details of the project. When contacted by Cartoon Network Studios Casey Kasem agreed to take part on the condition that Shaggy was shown to be a vegetarian and asked not to be given credit as he was officially retired.

The project had taken 132 hours to mix the vocals of the seven different songs, 8 months to animate and around two years in total. Many of the original character models had been packed away, given to museums or burnt. Where possible the originals were found and transported to Chapman Studios in Altrincham from all over the world. In cases where the original models no longer existed, such as the characters from Camberwick Green and Trumpton, new ones were created.

Because permission was not given by Royal Mail to use their current logo, Postman Pat's van was a modified model from the most recent series with no logo.

The single raised at least £170,000 for Children in Need after more than 265,000 CD, DVD and download sales by mid-December 2009.

Composition

The single is a medley of multiple songs played out in the following order:

Disc 1

* "Can You Feel It" - The Jacksons (1981)
* "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac (1976)
* "Jai Ho! (You are my Destiny)" from the Film (Slumdog Millionaire) - A.R. Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls (2009)
* "Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba (1997)
* "Never Forget" - Take That (1995)
* "Hey Jude" - The Beatles (1968)
* "One Day Like This" - Elbow (2009)

Disc 2

* Tiger Feet - Mud
* Mambo No 5 - Bob the Builder
* Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
* Is This the Way to Amarillo - Tony Christie
* Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

The music video shows the Animated All Star Band meeting and recording the song in a studio, parodying other charity songs in the style of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", with Big Chris, the character voiced by Kay in Roary the Racing Car, first arranging the recording session and then leading the singing. Most of the contributions are stop motion characters. Those who are not are displayed on a TV screen with in the stop motion world "via satellite"

### Characters

HIT Entertainment and Classic Media

* Angelina Ballerina (AB)

1. Angelina Ballerina

* Oswald

* Barney & Friends (BF)

1. Barney
2. B.J.
3. Baby Bop
4. Riff

* Bob the Builder (BB)

1. Bob the Builder
2. Wendy
3. Spud
4. Scoop+
5. Pilchard+
6. Travis+
7. Farmer Pickles+
8. Lofty+
9. Scruffty+
10. Mr Bentley+

* Fireman Sam (FS)

1. Fireman Sam
2. Firefighter Elvis Cridlington
3. Station officer Basil Steele
4. Firefighter Penny Morris
5. Norman Price
6. Tom Thomas+

* Kipper the Dog

1. Kipper
2. Tiger
3. Pig
4. Arnold
5. Jake

* Pingu

1. Pingu
2. Robby
3. Pingg+
4. Pongi+
5. Seagull+

* Postman Pat (PP)

1. Postman Pat
2. Jess
3. Ajay Bains
4. Nisha Bains
5. Mrs Goggins
6. Ted Glen
7. Sara Clifton+
8. PC Selby+
9. Ben Taylor+
10. Meera\*+

* Rubbadubbers (RBD)

1. Tubb
2. Terence
3. Finbar
4. Sploshy
5. Reg+
6. Winona\*
7. Amelia\*

* Thomas and Firends (TF)

1. Thomas the Tank Engine
2. Terence the Tractor+
3. Percy the Small Engine\*+
4. Bertie+
5. James the Red Engine\*+
6. The Fat Controller\*

* The Wiggles (TW)

1. Officer Beaples
2. Greg
3. Anthony
4. Jeff
5. Murray
6. Dorothy The Dinosaur
7. Wags The Dog
8. Henry The Octopus
9. Captain Feathersword

Chapman Entertainment

* Roary the Racing Car (RRC)

1. Roary the Racing Car
2. Big Chris
3. Marsha
4. Mr Carburettor
5. Big Christine
6. Farmer Green
7. Rusty+
8. Flash+

* Fifi and the Flowertots (FFT)

1. Fifi Forget me Not
2. Mo
3. Stingo
4. Violet
5. Bumble
6. Primrose
7. Slugsy
8. Buttercup
9. Daisy
10. Flutterby\*

Create Media Ventures

* Little Robots (LR)

1. Tiny
2. Stretchy
3. Scary
4. Sporty
5. Noisy+

Woodland Animations Ltd.

* Charlie Chalk (CC)

1. Charlie Chalk
2. Captain Mildred
3. Lewis T. Duck
4. Arnold the Elephant
5. Litterbug+
6. Mary the Hover Fairy+

* Bertha

1. Bertha
2. Mr. Sprott
3. Ted Turner
4. Roy Willing

Mike Joyce / Mixpix

* Christopher Crocodile

BBC Studios

* Muffin the Mule (WWM)
* Otis The Aardvark
* Emlyn The Gremlin
* Edd T. Duck
* Gordon T. Gopher
* Ed and Oucho
* The blobs from CBBC
* The blobs from CBeebies
* Bear and Butterfly from CBeebies
* Doctor Who, Sarah Jane and some of the Daleks
* The Woodentops (WWM)

1. Willy Woodentop
2. Jenny Woodentop
3. Spotty Dog+
4. Daddy Woodentop\*
5. Mummy Woodentop\*

* Balamory
* Moll

1. Miss Hoolie
2. Spencer
3. Archie the Inventer
4. Josie Jump

* Waybuloo

1. Lau Lau

* The Shiny Show

1. Dogsby
2. Moka
3. Ticks

ChuckleVision

1. Paul Chuckle
2. Barry Chuckle
3. No Slacking

* Tweenies

1. Bella
2. Milo
3. Fizz
4. Jake
5. Max
6. Judy
7. Doodles
8. Izzles
9. Eddie the Dream Genie

* Playdays

1. Poppy Cat
2. Peggy Patch
3. Why Bird

* Yoho Ahoy

1. Bilge
2. Booty
3. Poop
4. Swab+
5. Grog+
6. Flamingo+

* Play School (PS) and Show Me Show Me (SMSM)

1. Mo Mo
2. Tom
3. Stuffy
4. Miss Mouse
5. Teddington
6. Humpty
7. Big Ted
8. Little Ted
9. Jemima
10. Poppy

* Me Too

1. Granny Murray
2. Bobby
3. Tina

* Mr Blobby
* Flower Pot Men (WWM)

1. Bill
2. Ben
3. Weed\*

* The Basil Brush Show

1. Basil Brush
2. Mr. Stevens
3. Cousin Mortimer

* Andy Pandy (WWM)

1. Andy Pandy
2. Looby Loo
3. Teddy

* Children in Need

1. Pudsey Bear

Danot Enterprises

* The Magic Roundabout

1. Dougal the Dog
2. Florence
3. Ermintrude+
4. Brian+
5. Zebedee+
6. The Train+

David Yates

* The Flumps

1. Perkin
2. Posie
3. Pootle
4. Grandfather Flump\*

Dabble Films

* Broomstick Cottage

1. Mr Bobbin+

Open Mind Productions

* Numberjacks

1. Six
2. One
3. Two
4. Three
5. Five
6. Four
7. Eight
8. Seven
9. Nine
10. Zero

Aardman Animations

* The Amazing Adventures of Morph

1. Morph
2. Chaz
3. Nailbrush
4. Delilah+
5. Gillespie+
6. Grandmorph+

* Wallace and Gromit

* Chicken Run

1. Ginger

Queensgate Productions

* The Trapdoor (TD)

1. Berk
2. Boni\*
3. Drutt\*

Telemaginations Ltd

* The Animals of Farthing Wood

1. Fox
2. Badger
3. Weasel
4. Owl
5. Toad
6. Adder
7. Squirrels
8. Voles
9. Mole

* The Cramp Twins

1. Lucien Cramp
2. Wayne Cramp
3. Tony Parsons+
4. Wendy Winkle+

* The Telebugs (TT)

1. Chip the White Telebug
2. Samantha the Yellow Telebug
3. Bug the Red Telebug
4. Mic the Flying Video Pack
5. Professor Brainstrain\*
6. Grumble\*

Cookie Jar Entertainment

* Paddington Bear
* The Herbs

1. Parsley the Lion
2. Dill the Dog+
3. Bayleaf the Gardener+
4. Lady Rosemary+
5. Sir Basil+
6. Tarragon the Dragon+
7. Pashana Bedhi+
8. Good King Henry+
9. Miss Jessop+

* The Wombles

1. Orinoco
2. Bungo
3. Wellington
4. Alderney+
5. Tobermory
6. Tomsk
7. Madame Cholet
8. MacWomble The Terrible
9. Great Uncle Bulgaria\*

* Moschops

1. Moschops
2. Ally
3. Uncle Rex+
4. Mrs. Kerry+

* The Gingerbread Man

1. The Gingerbread Man
2. Sleek the Mouse+
3. Herr von Cuckoo+

* Huxley Pig

1. Huxley Pig
2. Sam Seagull
3. Horace

* Portland Bill

Cosgrove Hall Films Ltd

* Danger Mouse
* Engie Benjy (EB)

1. Engie Benjy
2. Trucker Troy
3. Jollop the Dog+
4. Farmer Fred and Tractor+
5. Pilot Pete+
6. Driver Dottie+
7. Dan the Van\*
8. Big Rig\*

* The Animal Shelf (AS)

1. Gumpa
2. Woeful
3. Stripey
4. Little Mut
5. Getup

* Oakie Doke
* Fetch The Vet
* Fantomcat
* The Wind in the Willows/Oh Mr. Toad (WIW/OMT)

1. Mr. Toad
2. Badger
3. Ratty
4. Mole
5. Otter

Ragdoll Productions

* Teletubbies

1. Tinky Winky
2. Dipsy
3. Laa-Laa
4. Po

* Rosie & Jim

1. Rosie
2. Jim
3. Duck

* Blips

1. Mr. Perfect

* Abney and Teal
* In the Night Garden (ING)

1. Igglepiggle
2. Upsy Daisy
3. Makka Pakka
4. Tombliboos
5. The Pontipines
6. The Wottingers
7. The Pinky Ponk+

* Tots TV (TT)

1. Tilly
2. Tom
3. Tiny
4. Furryboo+

* Boohbah

1. Humbah
2. Zumbah
3. Zing Zing Zingbah
4. Jumbah
5. Jingbah

E1 Entertainment and Tiger Aspect Productions

* Mr. Bean

* Peppa Pig

1. Peppa Pig
2. George

* Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

1. Ben
2. Holly

* Charlie and Lola (CL)

1. Charlie Sonner
2. Marv Lowe
3. Lola Sonner
4. Lotta Zehybe
5. Soren Lorensen+

Yorkshire Television

* The Riddlers (TR)

1. Mossop
2. Tiddler
3. Middler\*

ITV International Media Limited

* Thunderbirds (TB)

1. Virgil Tracy
2. Brains
3. Parker
4. Lady Penelope
5. Alan Tracy\*
6. Gordon Tracy\*

Ealing Animation

* Old Bear Stories (OB)

1. Old Bear
2. Little Bear
3. Rabbit
4. Bramwell Brown
5. Duck

Smallfilms

* Bagpuss
* Ivor The Engine
* Noggin The Nog
* Clangers

1. Small Clanger
2. Major Clanger
3. Mother Clanger
4. Tiny Clanger
5. Granny Clanger
6. The Soup Dragon+

Cartoon Network Studios

* Ed, Edd n Eddy (EENE)

1. Ed
2. Edd
3. Eddy

* Ben 10: Alien Force

1. Ben Tennyson

* The Powerpuff Girls

1. Blossom
2. Bubbles
3. Buttercup
4. Johnny Bravo
5. Cow and Chicken
6. Courage The Cowardly Dog
7. Billy and Mandy
8. The Kids Next Door
9. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

1. Ami Ounki
2. Yumi Yoshimura
3. Kaz Harada

Magic Lantern Productions

* Alphablocks

1. A
2. E
3. N
4. O
5. T
6. X
7. P+
8. I+
9. U+

The Jim Henson Company

* The Muppets

1. Kermit the Frog
2. Miss Piggy
3. Frozzie Bear
4. Great Ganzo
5. Animal

* Mopatop's Shop

1. Mopatop

* The Hoobs

1. Tuia
2. Groove
3. Iver
4. HubbaHubba

* Bear in the Big Blue House

1. Bear
2. Ojo
3. Tutter
4. Treelo
5. Pip and Pop

Monster Animations/Bob Godfrey

* Noah and Nelly in...SkylArk

1. Noah
2. Nelly
3. The 2-headed animals

* Roobarb

1. Roobarb
2. Custard
3. The Birds\*

* Fluffy Gardens

1. Paolo the Cat
2. Mavis the Pony
3. Small Green Thing+

* Henry's Cat

1. Henry's Cat
2. Chris Rabbit

Thames TV

* Rainbow

1. Zippy
2. George
3. Bungle+

* Chorlton and the Wheelies (CW)

1. Chorlton
2. Zoomer
3. Jenny
4. King Otto and Queen Doris+
5. The Minister+
6. Fenella+

* Button Moon (BM)

1. Mr. Spoon

* Sooty

1. Sooty
2. Sweep
3. Soo
4. Scampi
5. Richard Cadell

Tell-Tale Productions

* Fun Song Factory

1. Ozzy Octave
2. Sally Cat
3. Fred Fixer

Gordon Murray's Productions

* Camberwick Green

1. Windy Miller

* Trumpton

1. Chippy Minton
2. Miss Lovelace+

Spellbound Entertainment Ltd

* The Koala Brothers

1. Frank the Koala
2. Buster the Koala
3. Archie the Crocodile+
4. George the Tortoise+
5. Sammy the Echidna+
6. Alice the Platypus+

Mark Mason Animation

* The Forgotten Toys (FT)

1. Annie
2. Teddy\*

* The Raggy Dolls (RD)

1. Claude
2. Dotty
3. Princess

Channel 4

* The Number Crew

Characters with an asterisk (\*) after their names appear on the cover montage but not in the music video itself.

Characters with an plus (+) after their names appear on the music video but not in the cover montage itself.

Cast

* Susan Beattie
* Harley Bird: Peppa Pig
* Matthew Bloxham
* Carole Boyd: Sara Clifton/Mrs. Goggins/Captain Mildred
* David Carling: Station Officer Steele/Elvis Cridlington/The Minister/King Otto/Queen Doris/Old Bear/Duck
* Hayley Carmichael
* Joolz Clough: Sooty
* Bernard Cribbins: Orinoco/Bungo/Wellington/Uncle Rex
* Maria Darling: Roary/Marsha/Primrose/Violet/Sploshy/Andy Pandy/Charlie/Marv/Lola/Lotta/Bug/Mic
* Andrew Davenport: Tiny
* Nicole Davis: Poppy/Samantha
* Declan Donnelly: Engie Benjy
* Martin Clunes: Kipper
* Peter Sallis: Wallace/Ratty
* Pui Fan Lee: Po/Mo Mo/Tom/Miss Mouse
* Geoff Felix
* Sarah Fitzpatrick
* Dominic Frisby
* Liz Frostn: Dogsby
* Kate Harbour: Wendy
* Mike Hayley
* Mark Heenehan: Tinky Winky
* Jimmy Hibbert: Teddy/Bill/Ben/Moschops/Rabbit/Gumpa/Lewis T. Duck
* David Holt: Oakie Doke/Charlie Chalk/Ally/Doogal/Zoomer/Little Bear
* Sean Hughes: Finbar
* Jane Horrocks: Fifi Forget-Me-Not/Jenny/Jemima
* Janet James: Soren Lorensen/Tara
* Chris Jarvis: Teddington/Big Ted/Little Ted/Stuffy/Humpty
* Peter Kay: Big Chris
* Steven Kynman: Fireman Sam/Bramwell Brown
* Ronnie Le Drew
* Brenda Longman: Soo
* Malcolm Lord
* Yuri Lowenthal: Ben Tennyson
* Lewis Macleod: Postman Pat/Ted Glen/PC Selby/Ben Taylor
* Marty Grabstein: Courage
* Cree Summer: Numbuh 5
* David Sant: Pingu
* Michael Maloney
* Mark Mander
* Glenn Moore
* Neil Morrissey: Bob the Builder/Farmer Pickles/Farmer Fred
* Tom Oldham
* Rob Rackstraw: Spud/Frank/Buster/Chip/Norman Price
* Cathy Cavadini: Blossom
* Tara Strong: Bubbles
* E.G. Daily: Buttercup
* Brian Sandford: Sweep
* John Gordon Sinclair: Tubb/Terence/Reg/Chorlton/Arnold the Elephant
* Marc Silk: Bumble/Slugsy
* John Simmit: Dipsy
* Roy Skelton: Zippy/George
* Nikky Smedley: Laa-Laa
* Finty Williams: Angelina Mouseling
* Ringo Starr: Thomas the Tank Engine
* John Thompson
* Tegwen Tucker: Penny Morris
* Eleanor Webster: Chloe
* Fay Ripley: Meg
* Phil Cornwell: Mog
* Alan Bennett: Owl
* Nick Mercer: Ozzy Octave
* Tim Whitnall

Characters with an asterisk (\*) after their names, appear on the cover montage but not in the music video itself.

## Goofs

* In both shots of Thomas singing "Jai Ho" with Roary the Racing Car, his lamp is tipped backward, his brake pipe is crooked and his front coupler chain is on his middle lamp iron.
* Nitrogen Studios is incorrectly credited as "Studio Nitrogen."
* Mira Bains replaces Nisha Bains in the cast list.
* WHY THE HELL ARE THERE NON-UK CHARACTERS ?!?!?! THEY DON'T BELONG HERE !!!!!!