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Does anyone remember the programme 'Fat Tulip'?
It was on Childrens ITV in the mid 1980s, around 1986 and was a programme with Tony Robinson on screen walking around narrating the adventures of (I think) a person called Fat Tulip and the friends he had in his garden. It was shown in the afternoons and was totally absurd. There was a sequel of stories called 'FAT TULIP TOO' which was a bit ****.... It was produced by Central Television and aired on ITV from 1985-87, in a 4:00pm timeslot, with each episode lasting about 10 minutes. Robinson would tell children's stories directly to camera in an English garden setting, and would put on all the voices himself. The show was written by Debbie Gates and Robinson and carried by Robinson's unique and engaging storytelling style, which was semi-improvised. Robinson hoped to provoke the imagination and produce a sense of immediacy in contrast to the shortcomings he saw in children's television at the time.
The majority of the programme was filmed in the house and garden of Little Monkhams, a property in Woodford in the Redbridge Borough of London. Further scenes were filmed in the part of Epping Forest facing the house (Lord's Bushes and Knighton Woods)
My one abiding memory was the story where-to run faster-you had to pour chocolate flavoured yogurt in one show and strawberry (or was it rasberry?) flavour yogurt in the other....This Tony Robinson did with literal gusto....
My Mum thought he was a real pillock 
and since that time I can't ever take the guy seriously, well, you can't really when you've seen him as the many incarnations of Baldrick.....
Characters included: Thin Tim, Fred the Baddy, Gilbert Harding Sheep, Bunting Tadpole, Anwar and Amita Rabbit, Tracey Bee, a cockle called Jim Morrison.....and yeah I did a wikipedia search for the rest of this info!
It was on Childrens ITV in the mid 1980s, around 1986 and was a programme with Tony Robinson on screen walking around narrating the adventures of (I think) a person called Fat Tulip and the friends he had in his garden. It was shown in the afternoons and was totally absurd. There was a sequel of stories called 'FAT TULIP TOO' which was a bit ****.... It was produced by Central Television and aired on ITV from 1985-87, in a 4:00pm timeslot, with each episode lasting about 10 minutes. Robinson would tell children's stories directly to camera in an English garden setting, and would put on all the voices himself. The show was written by Debbie Gates and Robinson and carried by Robinson's unique and engaging storytelling style, which was semi-improvised. Robinson hoped to provoke the imagination and produce a sense of immediacy in contrast to the shortcomings he saw in children's television at the time.
The majority of the programme was filmed in the house and garden of Little Monkhams, a property in Woodford in the Redbridge Borough of London. Further scenes were filmed in the part of Epping Forest facing the house (Lord's Bushes and Knighton Woods)
My one abiding memory was the story where-to run faster-you had to pour chocolate flavoured yogurt in one show and strawberry (or was it rasberry?) flavour yogurt in the other....This Tony Robinson did with literal gusto....
My Mum thought he was a real pillock and since that time I can't ever take the guy seriously, well, you can't really when you've seen him as the many incarnations of Baldrick.....Characters included: Thin Tim, Fred the Baddy, Gilbert Harding Sheep, Bunting Tadpole, Anwar and Amita Rabbit, Tracey Bee, a cockle called Jim Morrison.....and yeah I did a wikipedia search for the rest of this info!
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