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The Beeps

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Press Cuttings

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Merchandise

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Wot-a-Beeptastic-DVD!

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Promotional Leaflet Southern Star Distribution

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My original Map of the Wot-a-Lots Woods on Wot-an-Island

I soaked the paper I drew the Map on  in tea to create an antique effect

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Wot-a-Splash! Test Film

1997. Wot-a-Splash! was the first ever 3D Stop-Frame Puppet Animated Test Film I had made for my Wot-a-Lots and their World.

Wot-a-Splash! was animated and all the sets designed and made by the highly talented and skilled Animators and Art Department at Cosgrove Hall Films Studios in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.

3D Models hand crafted by Mackinnon and Saunders.

Voices and Narration by Jimmy Hibbert.

The Wot-a-Lots Theme Tune and Music by John Cameron.

Directed by Sarah Ball.

1997 BB (Before Beeps!)

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Very big thank you to Stanleys http://www.stanleys.london for transcoding Wot-a-Splash!

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Colouring in and Activity Pages

Beepy Birthday!
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Beeps-around-the-World!

The Beeps® were originally broadcast daily in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 Milkshake! Subsequently sold internationally to over sixty seven countries all around the world by Southern Star Distribution and Endemol Worldwide Distribution.

Here are some of the countries my lovely Citizens of the World, my Wot-Beeps have visited:

🇩🇿 Algeria

🇦🇴 Angola

🇧🇯 Benin

🇧🇼 Botswana

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

🇧🇮 Burundi

🇨🇲 Cameroon

🇨🇻 Cape Verde Islands

🇨🇫 Central African Republic

🇹🇩 Chad

🇰🇲 Comoros

🇨🇬 Congo

🇩🇯 Djibouti

🇪🇬 Egypt

🇪🇹 Ethiopia

🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea

🇪🇷 Eritrea

🇪🇺 Europe (Hotbird footprint)

🇬🇦 Gabon

🇬🇲 Gambia

🇬🇭 Ghana

🇬🇼 Guinea Bissau

🇮🇳 India

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇪 Ireland

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast

🇰🇪 Kenya

🇱🇸 Lesotho

🇱🇷 Liberia

🇱🇾 Libya

🇲🇬 Madagascar

🇲🇱 Mali

🇲🇼 Malawi

🇲🇷 Mauritania

🇲🇺 Mauritius

🇾🇹 Mayotte

Middle East (Arabsat/Nilesat)

🇲🇦 Morocco

🇲🇿 Mozambique

🇳🇦 Namibia

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇪 Niger

🇳🇬 Nigeria

🇳🇴 Norway

🇷🇪 Reunion

🇷🇼 Rwanda

🇸🇿 Swaziland

🇸🇭 Saint Helena

🇸🇹 Sao Tome & Principe

🇸🇳 Senegal

🇸🇨 Seychelles

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇸🇴 Somalia

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

🇸🇩 Sudan

🇹🇿 Tanzania

🇹🇬 Togo

🇹🇳 Tunisia

🇺🇬 Uganda

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇪🇭 Western Sahara

🇿🇲 Zambia

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

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Season 1. Episode 2. 

Translated into Arabic

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Seasons 1, 2 & 3 originally broadcast on Channel 5 Milkshake!

I created, developed, secured broadcaster, funding, co-Executive Produced The Beeps.

65 x11 minute CGI animated episodes of The Beeps® made for Channel 5.

Three Seasons!

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The UK terrestrial television Premiere and Daily Broadcast of The Beeps on Channel 5’s Milkshake!  https://www.channel5.com/show/the-beeps

Smelly-Beep’s very First CGI Animated Steps! ❤️

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The Beeps® IMDb

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Selection of CGI Images from The Beeps Series 1, 2 & 3

in the middle of the Sapphire Sea
Admiring his garden
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Wot-a-Beep-Beep Tree and BeepFriends!
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Wot-a-Beep-Beep Tree and some of his Beep friends!
Wot-a-Beep-Beep Tree and some of his Beep friends!
Breakfast Porridge at Long Table in Bluebell Glade
Breakfast Porridge at Long Table in Bluebell Glade
Interior Bossy-Beep's Bush House
Interior Bossy-Beep’s Bush House
Bossy-Beep running things!
Bossy-Beep running things!
Beeps in the Snow!
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Interior Beep-Beep's Bush House
Interior Beep-Beep’s Bush House
Beep-Beep, Teeny-Beep and Brainy-Beep discussing the possibility of rain today
Beep-Beep, Teeny-Beep and Brainy-Beep discussing the possibility of rain today
Beep-Beep and Teeny-Beep in the Beep-Copter.
Beep-Beep and Teeny-Beep in the Beep-Copter.
Smelly flying the Beepcopter
Sleepy-Beep & Leapy-Beep discussing how many sheep jumped over the gate
on top of High Hill
Nosey-Beep is delighted that it is Beep Porridge AGAIN for breakfast!
Moonlight Beeps
Meet the Family!
WOW! Pink Snow is Beep-Beep's favourite thing!
Happy Beep-Pink-Snowday!
Happy Beep-Pink-Snowday!
I think it's been Pink Snowing!
Look! Drozzle made a rainbow by watering his violets!
Teeny-Beep blushing!

Wot-a-Muddy Puddle!

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Episode lists of The Beeps Seasons 1, 2 & 3

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SEASON 1

S1/Ep1 Mar. 12 Lost Socks

S1/Ep2 Mar. 13 Up High Hill

S1/Ep3 Mar. 14 Beeping in the Rain

S1/Ep4 Mar. 15 Yuk’s Stuck Truck

S1/Ep5 Mar. 16 The Sock Mess Monster

S1/Ep6 Mar. 17 Pink Snow

Very big thank you to Stanleys http://www.stanleys.london for transcoding Pink Snow.

S1/Ep7 Mar. 19 Hide and Beep

S1/Ep8 Mar. 21 Beep Ball

S1/Ep9 Mar. 22 Beeping Trumpet

S1/Ep10 Mar. 23 What’s That Noise?

S1/Ep11 Mar. 26 Sky High

S1/Ep12 Mar. 27 Flutterbye

S1/Ep13 Mar 24 Beep

S1/Ep14 Mar. 25 Teeny’s Big Day

S1/Ep15 Mar. 26 The Big Freeze

Many Beeps in the snow!

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SEASON 2

S2/Ep16 Sep. 13 Drozzle Dries Up

S2/Ep17 Sep. 14 Noisy Neighbour

S2/Ep18 Oct. 17 Sports Day

S2/Ep19 Sep. 18 Where No Beep Has Gone Before

S2/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep

S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash

S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No

S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful

S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off

S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival

S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps

S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You!

S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble

S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure

S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses

S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie

S2/Ep32 Dec. 23 Treasure Hunt

S2/Ep33 May 5  Home Sweet Home

S2/Ep34 May 6 Leafy’s Hoe

S2/Ep35 Apr. 24 Brand New Bossy

S2/Ep36 May 8 Twinkleberry Pie

S2/Ep37 May 9 The Great Pink Sunset

S2/Ep38 Apr. 28 Bubble and Beep!

S2/Ep39 Apr. 22 Put a Sock in It!

S2/Ep40 Apr. 30 Crafty Beeps!

S2/Ep41 May 2 Cure for Bossy

S2/Ep42 Dec. 22 Hunt the Beep

S2/Ep43 Apr. 23 Pets

S2/Ep44 Dec. 8 Source of the Sapphire Stream

S2/Ep45 Apr. 29 Wash Those Socks!

S2/Ep46 Dec. 12 The Bumps

60Prof Alarm Clock

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SEASON 3

S3/Ep1 Aug. 30 Up Down Hill

S3/Ep2 Aug. 31 Caravan

S3/Ep3 Sep. 6 Secret Garden

S3/Ep4 Sep. 7 Bounceflower Tea

S3/Ep5 Sep. 13 The Whale

S3/Ep6 Sep. 14 Soggy Sockroaches

S3/Ep7 Sep. 20 Stinkroots

S3/Ep8 Sep. 21 Sing-a-long-a-beeps

S3/Ep9 Sep. 27 History Book

S3/Ep10 Sep. 28 What Goes Splat?

S3/Ep11 Oct. 4 Musical Beeps

S3/Ep12 Oct. 5 Strung Along

S3/Ep13 Oct. 11 The Sock Tree

S3/Ep14 Oct. 12 Pet Hospital

S3/Ep15 Oct. 13 Beepside the Seaside

S3/Ep16 Oct. 14  The Moon-Fruit Tree

Very big thank you to Stanleys http://www.stanleys.london for transcoding The Moon-Fruit Tree.

S3/Ep17 Oct. 15 No Smoke Without Beeps

S3/Ep18 Oct. 16 Beep Island Blues

S3/Ep19 Oct. 17 The Bees and the Socks

S3/Ep20 Oct 27 The Rainbow

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PINK BEEPS LOGOScriptwriters

Adam Peters

Arabella Warner 

Hannah Williams

Helena Smee

John and Rosemary Barratt

Malou Bonicos

Nick Wilson

Sally Marchant

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Mackinnon & Saunders Models

Original 3D Puppets of the original Wot-a-Lots; Laugh-a-Lot, Smell-a-Lot and Chirp-a-Lot beautifully hand-crafted by MacKinnon & Saunders for the Test Film “Wot-a-Splash!” made by Cosgrove Hall Films.

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Inspiration for the Bush HousesP1 Q&A CHELSEA REAL BUSH HOUSE

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Smelly and Laugh-a-Lot outside Bush House
CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN WEEPING MULBERRY BUSH INSPIRATION FOR WOTS BUSH HOUSE

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Absolute Digital Studios Animation Tests

Spring 2005. The very talented Absolute Digital Studios produced superb Animation tests for my Wot-a-Lots.

THE WOT-A-LOTS TEST VISUALS ABSOLUTE STUDIOS 11-03-05

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Evolution of The Beep-Beep Tree

The Real Beep-Beep Tree. Kensington Gardens 18 05 2003

The Real Beep-Beep Tree, Kensington Gardens, London W8

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My original pencil draft idea for The Beep-Beep Tree

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My watercolour of The Beep-Beep Tree

CGI Interpretation of The Beep-Beep Tree. Photo of Bossy-Beep, Yuk, Leafy-Beep and Brainy-Beep all dancing with the Beep-Beep Tree! x

CGI Interpretation of The Beep-Beep Tree

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Selection of my original Wot-a-Lots Drawings in watercolour with ink outlines

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MB ORIGINAL SMELL-A-LOT & DROZZLE TAMPERING WITH THE TIME TREE

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Selection of my original Wot-Transport Ideas and Drawings

MB Original. Wot Transport Title Page

MB Wot Transport WOT-A-CAR AND WOT-A-BIKE

MB Wot Transport 3 WOT-A-PLANE AND WOT-A-BOAT

MB Wot Transport 4 WOT-A-CORACLE AND WOT-A-TRUCKTOR

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My original pencil draft idea for Beautiful Beeposaurus

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CGI interpretation of Beautiful Beeposaurus

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My original pencil draft ideas for Mucky-Beep, his best friend Muckymuddypuddle and of course, not forgetting his delightful Mucky-Truck!

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CGI Interpretations of  Mucky-Beep, Mucky-Truck and Muckymuddypuddle!

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My original pencil draft idea for Teeny-Wot

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CGI Interpretation of  Teeny-Wot

Teeny & Beep-Beep in the Beepcopter

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Beeps Recipes

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Beeps-December. Sending Peace & Love to our friends all around this big wide world from The Wot-Beeps
Beeps-December. Sending Peace & Love to our friends all around this big wide world from The Wot-Beeps

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now known as The Beeps

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One beautiful sunny afternoon in September 1993 while I was at my desk drawing in my studio, I was inspired to create The Wot-a-Lots® (renaming them The Beeps® eleven years later). These little characters and their world were inspired by my family, friends and life experiences.

Initially, I started drawing and writing up all my ideas for the Wot-a-Lots® just one or two evenings a week, after I had finished all the illustration and graphic design jobs for my clients.

26F12615-2F79-48DE-874A-B5B5A42794A5However, this project rapidly developed into a burning passion, and I would often work all through the night on my Wot-a-Lots®, in an attempt to try and transfer the mass of ideas, images and information about the Wot-a-Lots® and their world that were in my head onto paper.

This resulted in me producing hundreds and hundreds of sketches, diagrams, illustrations, photos and maps. I made models of all the characters, their homes and transport. I wrote over a hundred stories, as well as minutely detailed descriptions of all the Wot-a-Lots habits, jobs, eccentricities and daily life in their world as well as fully comprehensive Style Guides and Writers Manual.

From the very start of this project, I intended to design a lot of characters, and wanted to devise a family surname that clearly expressed this. I eventually came up with the name The Wot-a-Lots®, inspired by what-a-lot of characters I was drawing!

The forename of each character to clearly describe his or her main personality trait, for instance, I named the Sleepy one ‘Sleep-a-Lot’ (subsequently renaming him ‘Sleepy-Beep’).

All the characters and their Pet-Friends were designed using a basic egg shape. With unique facial features, hairstyles, clothes, footwear and accessories designed especially for every individual character. I have created over fifty two Wot-a-Lots®/Beeps® characters in total, -one for each week of the year! Written over a hundred stories about them too.

About eleven years later, after I was was woken up in the middle of the night by my inspired idea for the Beep-Beep Tree, I thought it was about the right time to rename my lovely little characters and their world The Beeps®. So I named them after this new special tree in preparation for their big exciting animated global adventure they were about to embark upon.

It took me until 2005 to raise the funding required to get my project made into an animated pre-school television show. At the time, it was the biggest ever financial investment Channel 5 had made into a pre-school animated television show.

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‘The Lost Socks’ Episode 1, Season 1 of The Beeps® premiered and broadcast in the UK at 7.20 am on Monday 12th March 2007 on the Channel Five Milkshake!

A total of 65 x11 minute CGI Animated episodes were made for Channel 5.

The Beeps® distributed worldwide by Southern Star and Endemol Worldwide Distribution.

To date the show has been sold to over sixty seven countries all around the world.

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MB Original drawing"Washingfall"

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All Rights Owned by Malou Bonicos.
The Beeps® and The Wot-a-Lots® are Registered Trademarks owned by Malou Bonicos. All Rights Reserved.
The Beeps and The Wot-a-Lots Copyright Ⓒ Malou Bonicos 1993-2021. All Rights Reserved.
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