 
There was a show on back in the day about a sea-front hotel, if memory serves, and it was a mix of human and puppets, and there was a family (I think called the Gribbles - ma, pa and son)...it was good from what I remember, which admittedly is barely anything, but I do remember the mother Gribble (or whatever the family name was) going on a diet or something - and it was either the diet, or a binge of sugary stuff, that made her go absolutely mental and all bug-eyed. It was all filmed like a horror film, and everybody in the hotel was terrified, barricading themselves in the dining area...as a kid watching it, it was bloody scary.
For the life of me I can't remember the name of it though. 
Ug, the Moomins did my nut in, duno why, just annoyed me.
"Bertha" was brilliant, although never in a million years could it be shown today. It was a true reflection of a factory working situation in the 1980s. An Asian chap operating the forklift, two working class girls on the assembly line, a woman as a secretary to the big boss, who was white and middle class. The race politics of 'today-versus-yesteryear' would just come in and read a load of sh*t into/out of it, that weren't even there before.
Nutters ended up calling it racist or something, but it flat out wasn't, it was just a true reflection of how the social/work scale was during the 1980s for many people - what's wrong with reflecting reality? It's not like the boss was throwing around sexist and racist terms and feeling up his secretary while the blue collar folk went on strike or something - it was a bloody kid's show...about a machine with eyes and arms! 
http://www.thechestnut.com/bertha/bertha.htm
In fact looking back at it, how on earth could it be considered offensive?! Bah, political correctness nutters running amok! 
Bertha, what a lovely machine. 
Wait a minute, this is an Evil Dead thread, lol ... quick, er...
There we go...ahhhh...
That's actually a pretty cool pic.
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