Panda-Momium

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**Panda-Momium** is the pilot episode of *Victor and Hugo* it first aired on 6 September 1991. The brothers are hired to steal the rare African tree panda from Regent's Park Zoo.

## Plot

The brothers have been hired by Mr. X to steal the rare African tree panda from Regent's Park Zoo, but they first steal a toy panda from Bumbley's (a pun on Hamley's) toy store and rip its stuffing out so Hugo can get into the skin and take the place of the real panda.

**NOTES**: There is a Danger Mouse plush toy in Bumbley's (a pun on Hamley's) toy store as well as a Penfold wind-up toy, and the green ducks in the zoo's pond also look a little like Count Duckula; this episode is also, *still*, the only one available on DVD. Clips from this episode, along with the fourth, seventh, and eighth ones, were also used in the show's end credits - and a clip from the fourth one (where Marshal Wyatt Eartle throws Hugo into a prison cell) cuts to one from this one (where both Victor and Hugo land upon a skateboard after an anthropomorphic fox, who was following them to ask them where the train sets were, bumps into them from behind).

## Background Music Cues

* "The Chase Continues" (KPMK 1329. Track 13) by Dick Walter.
* "Ealing Days" by Andrew J J Hall.
* "Teddy Bear's Outing" (KPM-0147. Track 43) by Richard Allen Harvey and Brian Douglas Gulland.
* "Carribean Isles" (KPM 0071) by David Berkwood and Eton Blocka.

## Credits

* Voices: Jimmy Hibbert, David Jason, Brian Trueman
* Written by Brian Trueman
* Original Music: Dave Roylance
* Design: Andy Roper, Jon Doyle, Paul Salmon, Stephen Simpson, Jez Hall
* Supervised by Ben Turner
* Layout: Jamie Diaz Studios
* Storyboard: Jamie Diaz Studios
* Special Effects: Garry Owen, Jackie Mitchell, Roy Huckerby, David Birkinshaw
* Backgrounds: Maggie Riley, Beverly Bush, Michelle Graney, Peter Hiller, Philip Jackson, Weston Samuels, Rosie Mafrici
* Key Animators: Big Jack Bradley, Meryl Edge, Dave Livesey, Denise Heywood, Alistair Fell, Andy Wilson, Claire Grey, Malcolm McGookin, Adrian Bell
* Animators: Les Brooksbank, Paul Greenall, Mair Thomas
* Assistant Animators: Jennie Langley, Judy Pilsbury, Helen Michael, Steven A. Pleydell-Pearce, Craig Whittle, Steve Horrocks, Bob Sparkes, Karen Heywood, Helen Smith, Bill Tapp, Michael Whaite, Paul Jesper
* Checkers: Laura Cosgrove, Sue Halliwell, Yasodha Huckerby, Beverly James, Katie Nutter
* Colourist: Joan Jones
* Cel Painters: Carla Abraham, Althea Deane, Marie Dembinski, Joyce Flowers, Helen Frazer, Mark Sulton, Gloria Vassiliou, Stefania Giani, Lynn Hardie, Andrea Hough, Christine Kershaw, Annie Place, Karl Scoble
* Supervised by Lorriane Thomas, Laura Cosgrove
* Xerox: Don Geering, Joan Simmons, Tony McAleese
* Camera: Peter Kidd, Frank Hardie, Wendy Senior, Mark Sutton
* Video Line Test: Phil Atack, Lesley White
* Film Editor: Nibs Senior
* Sound Effects Editor: Jane Hicks
* Dubbing Mixer: John Wood
* Animation Director: Willard Kitchen
* Assistant Animation Director: John Offord
* Animation Checkers: Phil McMylor, Andy Bax
* Pre-Production Co-ordinator: Ed Williams
* Production Controller: Sian Thomas
* Production Co-ordinator: Simon White
* Post Production Manager: Chris Phillips
* Executive Producer: John Hambley
* Directed by Brian Cosgrove
* A Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall Production
* © Cosgrove Hall Productions Ltd. MCMXCI