Potamus Park

Potamus Park
Created by	Paul Cole
Voices of	Maria Liljefors Jemima Cotter Chris Towle Kay Puxley Nathalie Tierce
Opening theme	"We're on our way to Potamus Park" By Jeff Robinson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	42
Production
Producer(s)	John Lee Chris Noulton for ITV Central
Running time	10 minutes
Production company(s)	CITV for ITV
Distributor	Carlton Communications
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	1996 – 1998

Potamus Park was a British preschool program that ran on CITV from 1996-1999. The show centered on a small family of hippos.

Characters

Characters included Ticker, (a bird) Got To Guess, (a blue creature that used sign language to communicate) and Mindy and Mo (two Moles who live in a well and use a bucket as a lift when the hippos need help). Each episode was introduced by a set of talking flowers, who would explain what's to come or what's been happening in the episode.

Video Tapes

Episodes of the series were released on VHS by Carlton Video.

Title	Release Date
Please to meet you VL 1	1996
This is where we live VL 2	1996
Name that tune Vl 3	1996
Hungry hippo	1997
Secrets	1997
Dressing up	1999
Buried treasure	1999
Abracadabra	1999
Bed time story	2000
Where shall we go?	2000
Hip hippo ray day	2001
Gold Collection	2001

Trivia

Carlton Home Video issued many video tapes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Although the series was genuinely well received, ITV decided to cut the series in 1999 due to the rival show Bananas In Pyjamas, which received higher ratings. Even though the series ended in 1999, CITV continued to air repeated programs into the early 2000s.