Monster Café

Monster Café
Starring	David Shimwell Toby Sedgwick Isobel Middleton
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	30
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original run	12 September 1994 (1994-09-12) – 21 December 1995 (1995-12-21)

Monster Café is a Children's BBC comedy programme about three monsters working in Monster Café, where they meet weird monsters, serve weird food and battle with their evil boss, the baroness. The series aired from 1994 - 1995.

The Series started to be aired on Cbeebies in November 2007, but after complaints on BBC Message Boards and direct to the BBC regarding how the programme scared young children, it was pulled from the schedule.

Characters

Baronness played by Peta Lily

The Baroness is the bossy and bad tempered manager of the Monster Café. She also hates the monsters having any kind of fun and meals being given away for free. She is also the creator of Frankie, she created Frankie to help work in the cafe.

Frankie played by Isobel Middleton

Frankie is a female robot who works at the cafe. She is the smartest of the lot and uses many of the gadgets on her body to help out with problems and to fight the Baroness sometimes.

Igor played by David Shimwell

Igor is a 1-trillion-millenniums-old Transylvanian man who has very poor hygiene (but claims it's an old transylvanian custom). He also works at the cafe and loves making potions and other weird concoctions. He also has a talking pet dustbin called Vinnie. Igor also has a short temper, when he get's angry he has a 'Monster Bubbly' where he throws saucepans and custard pies (which always hit Skull) at other monsters.

Mummy played by Toby Sedgwick

Mummy is a 6000-year-old Egyptian Mummy who works at the café, he is very dim witted and often gets stuff wrong. He also pronounces his M's as R's (So he called him self Rummy).

Vinny Dustbin

Igors pet dustbin who acts very much like a dog, he will eat anything.

Skull

A talking skull who lives in the Monster Cafe, He always tells incredibly bad jokes. He is very mistreated, often being turned into a cabbage by the Baroness or having a custard pie thrown at him by Igor.

Minor characters

Chas Monster Cafe's best and favourite customer, he loves eating slugs. He also talks with a very strong Birmingham accent.

Quotes

• "Ma ma ma mushca!"
• "Back in a monster mo"
• "Monster me!"

External links

• Monster Café at the Internet Movie Database
• Full Monster cafe episode guide
• Monster Cafe at retrojunk