Dig and Dug

Dig and Dug

Dig and Dug was a stop motion animated television series produced in the UK during in 1993 by Dorling Kindersley (makers of the Eyewitness Books Series). There are 16 ten minute episodes and the characters were created and the stories written by writer Richard Everett. The series was aired by Channel 4 from 1995.

It was about two bumbling construction workers (Dig and Dug), who were given a task to accomplish over a 5-minute short. Aside from using segments much-like Laurel and Hardy shorts, the show also taught children about construction.

Major characters

  • Dig: Dig is Dug's fellow companion, young, tall and skinny in appearance. Despite being eager, hard-working, and ready for the job, he is quite naive, can be easily frightened, and is inexperienced. This can often lead to comical predicaments! However, little by little, Dig is starting to learn a little bit more about machinery and construction.
  • Dug: Dug is Dig's fellow co-worker. He is stumpy, a little bit older than Dig, a bit more experienced with machinery, but just as bumbling and naive. Dug often controls (or tries to control) the assignments given to him and Dig, but his clumsiness often gets the two of them into trouble. He can even make little, fixable problems become huge and serious.
  • Mr. MacAdam: Mr. MacAdam is Dig and Dug's boss. He is very good with machinery and construction, but a closer look reveals that Mr. MacAdam is almost just as clumsy and bumbling as Dig and Dug himself. In some episodes the boss is a Mr Rubble.
  • Daisy: Daisy is Dug's long-suffering niece. She is smarter than the two construction workers put together, so this allows her and her Aunt Beth to solve almost any problem that Dig and Dug cannot solve at all.

Theme Song

Dig and Dug in a little yellow truck are Daisy's favourite friends driving here and driving there to fetch and fix and mend watch them work together helping out in style always there at the ready with a spanner and a smile Dig and Dug and Daisy too bring a smile to you Daisy may be somewhere near thinking up a plan wondering how to help them out and lend a friendly hand Dig and Dug and Daisy too bring a smile to you

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