'Helping Hand' 1991 Comic Relief

1991's Comic Relief video was 'Helping Hand'.

It was performed by most of the UKs Childrens Puppet TV Personalities including characters from 'The House of Gristle', 'Fraggle Rock', 'Rainbow', 'Roland Rat', 'Thunderbirds', 'Round the Bend', 'Bill & Ben', 'The Gophers', 'Spitting Image', 'Jim Hensons Tale of the Bunny Picnic' and more!

Enjoy!

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• muppet
• fraggle
• rainbow
• puppets
• puppetry

[WozzaFraggle]

Does anyone else have any of these old Puppet series on VHS/DVD?

The series Id most like to see are Dizzy Heights, Winjin' Pom, Round the Bend and Chicken Minute.

[WozzaFraggle]

Ooh. May have been can anyone confirm?

[andremp03]

Do you know what I can't stand, Youtube IDIOTS like you, who go and view videos they dislike and then tell the video owner that they shouldn't have uploaded. STFU

[VoltzCartoons]

Playin' with his twanger

[MrDannydoodah]

Oh and @TheOldskoolmovies895 Postman Pat is a stop-motion character which is a form of animation using adjustable models, not officially classed as puppetry and wouldn't have been compatible with the filming of this, which presumably had all the various puppeteers underneath the rows where the puppets are. And I think Poppy from Playdays had yet to be introduced back then and Peggy Patch was still mute, but they could've used Why Bird and did use Lizzie (the black marionette puppet)

[MrDannydoodah]

Wow I've been looking for this for years and like an earlier poster I too thought I'd been going crazy or having some sort of 'trips' when I was a kid. Was it definitley Comic Relief/BBC though? I seem to associate it with ITV's telethon in my memory for some reason and it's never been on any of the comic relief highlights vids or dvds.

[TheOldskoolmovies895]

U can see Charlie chalk down the bottom but I can't see postman pat he was a puppet any one agree and wat about the cat from playdays wat was her name

[RocketeerRaccoon]

Wow, so many memories popping back in, most of these puppets were part of my childhood. Thanks for the video. =)

[DPH1984]

Great to see ths again - I've had vague memories of it for years.

[craigeves]

For as long as I can remember (I'm 31 now) a vision of this performance has popped into my head at random points... but I could never find a reference to it anywhere. All I remembered was "everybody needs a helping hand sometime, without a hand Orville wouldn't sing". I thought I was going mad.... but finally, here it is in it's full glory! Thanks for posting!

[millerhxc]

@WozzaFraggle unfortunately i think my parents have given away most of my fraggle rock and even muppet stuff in there move, but had them on vhs. And thank you so much for mentioning Chicken Minute. I knew it existed but I havent been able to find it. That is the one down by a bayou and an aligator who lives in a swamp, right?

Also I do surprisingly seem to have the Gophers on video.

[millerhxc]

@WozzaFraggle unfortunately i think my parents have given away most of my fraggle rock and even muppet stuff in there move, but had them on vhs. And thank you so much for mentioning Chicken Minute. I knew it existed but I havent been able to find it. That is the one down by a bayou and an aligator who lives in a swamp, right?

[Fragglevision]

1:05

ahhhh Fraggle Rock! I love that show it's one of my favorites of all time! They recently returned it to American TV on the Hub!