The characters' noises were provided by the show's co-creator Terry Brain but he was not credited for it.
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Instead they gabble, grunt, squeak, and hum whilst series narrator Terry Wogan unravels the tale for viewers. None of the characters actually speak decipherable words as such. There are also groups of extra characters referred to as Naughties (who are purple with yellow spots, and will cause "Naughtypox" when touched) and Sit Downs (who are pink and have magic powers that can cure Naughtypox). Supporting characters include Bee Quiet and Bee Have (two, as their names suggest, bees, the former of whom is huge and has a pursed-up mouth, but the latter is much smaller than him and does not, and they both have a mop of red hair at the top of their heads), Eat Your Greens (a blue-haired, frog-like green creature), Comb Your Hair (a six-legged, cow-like blue creature with long orange hair and a bell round his neck), Wash Your Face (a Wellington boot-wearing creature without arms who usually appears brown with black boots, but a bath revealed him to be pink with yellow boots), Go And Play (a light green creature who wore shorts and trainers), I Said No (an angry red creature who had a pink pet called Not Now), Hurry Up (a flying ball of black and yellow scribble), Calm Down (a yellow creature with a blue umbrella), Don't Do That (a spider-like red creature who lived in his shell), Go To Bed (a tired, pink-haired white creature), Say Please And Say Thank You (a two-faced plant), Clean Your Teeth (a purple-haired, sunglasses-wearing orange creature with huge teeth), and Take Care (a flying blue kangaroo-like creature). The series followed the exploits of the eponymous Stoppit (a red ball of fluff with arms and legs), and Tidyup (a blue-haired, necktie-wearing purple creature who is shaped like a bowling pin), in their native land, which is filled with giant-to-them gherkins. Each episode is named after a character that features in the episode (however, the character "Not Now" did not have an episode named after him because he was the pet of the series' antagonist "I Said No"). Unlike The Trap Door, which ran for 40 episodes over two series, only a single series of thirteen episodes was produced.
The short-running series features microscopic characters who live in the fictitious land of "Do As You're Told", a strange and colourful place (that was not completely separate from the human world, as one episode features a busy road and another features children playing) whose inhabitants are named after orders directed at children by their parents. The third member of the team behind the show was animator Steve Box who later gained success after moving to Aardman Animations. The series was created by Charles Mills and Terry Brain (who had previously created the claymation series The Trap Door in 1984), and partly funded by The Tidy Britain Group.
Each episode was five minutes in length, and narrated by Terry Wogan. The episodes feature two protagonists, Stoppit and Tidyup, interacting with various other inhabitants of the mythical land of Do As You're Told. Stoppit and Tidyup was a British children's animated cartoon television series produced by CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions in 1987 and screened on BBC One from 12 September to 5 December 1988. Title screen showing the series' logo and two main characters - Stoppit (left) and Tidyup
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