Original title
The Raggy Dolls
Released
4/3/1986
Origin country
GB
Genre
Animation
Production companies
Orchid Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
11
Number of episodes
137
The Raggy Dolls is a 1980s British cartoon series for children, following the adventures of a motley collection of rejects from a toy factory, who live in a reject bin.
The Raggy Dolls are out playing Cricket, during an argument between who should bowl a model plane crashes in the field, the Raggy Dolls decide to fix the plane and take it for a ride.
The Raggy Dolls are enjoying a quiet day in the country side, when they are suddenly disturbed by a circus.
Whilst out for a quiet walk Hi-Fi and Back-To-Front find a pigeon that seems to be in pain, on closer inspection they see that the pigeon has a broken wing, they both make a decision to help the injured pigeon to fly again.
With Back-to-Front's magic tricks being out of practice, Hi-Fi uses his metal detector to uncover a chest that has a real magic book in it, in which Back-to-Front uses to fix his head, but the book soon causes problems.
The Raggy Dolls were taken to a toy shop in London and were made as special offers to anyone who buys a video game. However, despite this new life, they did not want to give up their friendship when being bought individually, which is what happens when Lucy had been bought by a rich girl.
After Sad Sack gets chased by a duckling, the Raggy Dolls discover that the peaceful area of a field they are in is being littered by a careless family on a picnic.
The Raggy Dolls venture into the forbidden woods for a picnic only to find there is a poacher scaring away all of the wildlife, the poacher is scared into his own traps by the Raggy Dolls.
The Raggy Dolls are taken from the reject bin and are used as prizes at the funfair by a crook named Toby Martin. Back-To-Front shows the crowd that Toby is a fraud and he gets removed from the funfair, only after pulling Sack Sack into pieces, luckily the Raggy Dolls are there to piece him back together.
Claude is a very good cook for the Raggy Dolls, but when he saw Florrie Fosdyke bake a cake for the factory competition, he was then disgusted with her poor efforts. So the gang decide to help her out by replacing it with an even better cake.
After a storm has passed, the Raggy Dolls go to see Pumpernickle but find him on the ground. They also notice that Farmer Brown is not around to help the animals, and with the help of Rufus the sheepdog, they find him stuck in an old mineshaft and help to rescue him.
One snowy Christmas Eve, the Raggy Dolls decided to go tobogganing in the snow, but poor Sad Sack meanwhile wished he was still back in bed. And they end up crashing into the doors of a children's hospital, where they become temporary Christmas presents to sick children.
After hearing about a French Week being held in Bunce's Emporium, the Raggy Dolls decided to go there to have a look, but as they did, Claude got into a lot of trouble when he had wandered off. From there he gets lost and meets another French doll called Babette.
It is Princess's "binday", and she feels that she is being ignored as her friends get the preparations ready in secret. She decides to award them with a flight on Owl.
An American artist, Andre G. Hamburger needs inspiration for his new work and takes Dotty and Back-to-Front. Only when Hi-Fi rescues them, do they end up making his art even more famous.
Claude teaches the Raggy Dolls French. At first, Princess tries, then the rest of the Raggy Dolls except Sad Sack, who thought it is silly until he comes across a troubled French doll in an apple tree.
The Raggy Dolls find a Swan in distress one cold winter's night and decide to help it.
Mr Grimes's nephews come to visit him for the weekend and cause problems not just for him, but for the Raggy Dolls as well.
The Raggy Dolls were having a Sports Day, and everyone is enjoying it, except for poor Sad Sack.
The Raggy Dolls help to repair a doll that they find thrown away at the dump.
Mr Grimes is running out of ideas, and it is up to the Raggy Dolls to find some more, in order to keep his business running.
Mr Grimes goes to the seaside for his holiday, and the Raggy Dolls follow.
Princess feels like she is not royal enough, so the Raggy Dolls dress her up in royalty and give her a royal tour around the countryside, but things do not go according to plan when her coronet is stolen by a magpie and a fierce bull sees her red dress.
Claude gets himself into trouble, when he went after Onion soup, made by Florrie, and ends up being put inside a saucepan.
Dotty decides that the dolls should move to a new home. But when night falls and a storm takes place, she climbs inside a tree to shelter. When the other Raggy Dolls hear she is in trouble, they build a raft and set off to the rescue.
After giving a baby mouse some of their picnic food, the Raggy Dolls tell it where they got it. The next day, the factory is overtaken by a huge hoard of mice, and they now have to find a way on getting rid of them.
The Raggy Dolls sail on a toy boat and end up lost at sea. They reach a beach which Claude thinks is France, and camp there before sailing back home. In the end, Dotty discovers they were on an island in the middle of the sea.
One day, The Raggy Dolls were having a great time watching clouds, it was then disturbed when a hot air balloon landed in the big field. The pilot left a boy in charge and while he went for help, the boy accidentally clambered in and got unconscious as the balloon took off by high winds, and it is up to them to save the boy.
One night, Lucy wanted to be brave for once, she managed to succeed when she and the other Raggy Dolls met up with some spooky skeleton Raggy Dolls.
The Raggy Dolls decided to build a Tree House as their hang-out place, but whilst they were building, they noticed that a Magpie had been stealing jewelry from Mr Grimes’ Toy Factory.
Claude had come up with an idea for all The Raggy Dolls to dance for the evenings, and whilst they were planning to do that, they then found in the reject bin a Memory Machine with faulty answers. They managed to fix it up, in return of it lighting up the disco.
The Raggy Dolls decided to go for a sail, only for them to have a rough time with speed boats.
One autumn, The Raggy Dolls decided to camouflage their tree house, but as they were gathering things together, they eventually came to find a stubborn hedgehog, living in a bonfire in which would soon be alight.
The Raggy Dolls find out what happens when a greedy bunny has too many chocolate eggs.
Sad Sack was having trouble drawing a picture, so he decided to read a book about a magic sword, which then caused him to have the most amazing dream of his life.
Grimes Soft Toys are having a clearout. The Raggy Dolls find themselves thrown in a skip and taken to the town dump. A poor old lady visits the dump looking for scrap items to sell so that she can make some money to buy herself food and drink. She spots the Raggy Dolls in the skip and takes them home with her. In return for her kindness, the Raggy Dolls help the old lady by repairing all the broken clocks that she has so that she can sell them.
It was a peaceful day in their new treehouse until they were interrupted by jets and aeroplanes.
The Raggy Dolls have found an amusement park but they soon discovered that it is not much fun at all.
Mr Grimes was looking after his sister's naughty pet puppy as the Raggy Dolls had soon spotted him getting into all kinds of trouble and gets lost.
One day, The Raggy Dolls found something strange in the Big Field, which turns out to be Horse Jumps for a Welsh Pony, belonging to Farmer Brown's daughter that then had an accident. The Raggy Dolls come to the rescue, once again.
After the terrible storm was brewing, the Raggy Dolls must fix their new treehouse.
The Raggy Dolls must help a parrot who had been birdnapped by poachers.
Mr Grimes had found a game of golf, so the Raggy Dolls must make a game of crazy golf for themselves.
The Raggy Dolls try to help Pumpernickle by scaring all the crows away.
Mr. Grimes's terrible twin nephews were on a trip to the zoo as the Raggy Dolls followed with the help of the other animals.
Deciding to cheer Sad Sack up, the Raggy Dolls had made a puppet show to make him believe himself.
The Raggy Dolls had found an old windmill as they soon discovered it.
The Raggy Dolls have met a little carthorse who does not know who he is with a little help from Hercules the farm horse.
The Raggy Dolls were all harvesting crabapples and blackberries and they decide to make jam with them.
While the Raggy Dolls were having a picnic lunch, they meet Mr Grimes's long lost teddy bear named Old Edward who had been lost for a long time as they tried to help him out.
The Raggy Dolls had quite enough of Mr Marmalade's tricks after he had scared them, as they made their way to the factory, they were terrified by a rat so Mr. Marmalade tries to rescue them by scaring the rat away.
Mr Marmalade and the Raggy Dolls had given them clues as they were on a search to find a hidden treasure.
Sad Sack had met a toy kangaroo, Rupert the Roo who had been mailed from Australia, so the Raggy Dolls try to help him out before heading back to Australia.
The Raggy Dolls find out who the Twitcher is.
Dotty learns a valuable lesson about being bossy.
The Raggy Dolls are at a toy fair when a monkey causes chaos and takes over the fair.
The Raggy Dolls meets Ragamuffin, a wandering traveller doll who had lost his owner and decided to spend his life taking in new sights and experiences of his adventures.
Ragamuffin and the Raggy Dolls play Grand Prix games.
The Raggy Dolls gives Ragamuffin a teary farewell.
The Raggy Dolls play a game of doctors and nurses.
The Raggy Dolls are excited when Rupert returns from Australia.
Rupert teaches the Raggy Dolls how to use a boomerang.
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