Morph (animation) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Morph
A model of the main character, Morph, on display at the National Media Museum, Bradford
First appearance	Take Hart, 15 February 1977
Created by	Peter Lord David Sproxton
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Nationality	British

Morph is a series of clay stop-motion comedy animations, named after the main character, who is a small plasticine man, who speaks an unintelligible language and lives on a tabletop, his bedroom being a small wooden box. This fictional character was initially seen interacting with Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat.

Films, shorts, and TV series

Series overview

Season 1: 2013–14

The First Season of Morph was aired on 4 November 2013 and ended on 26 June 2014.

Season 2: 2014–15

Season 3: 2018

Season 4: 2021

Characters

Main

• Morph – The curious and creative main character with terracotta skin. He is a clay figure who can transform into many things.
• Chas – Morph's amoral white-skinned best friend.(Originally named Stu)
• Nailbrush – Morph's 'canine' companion, a barking, male nailbrush.

Supporting

• Grandmorph – Morph's elderly, bearded grandfather, who travels by skateboard and frequently invents things.
• Delilah – A bossy, bespectacled female character in a yellow dress with dark brownish-purple skin.
• Folly – A scatter-brained girl made of tin-foil.
• Gillespie – A large, purple, dimwitted but peaceable friend of Morph's.
• The Very Small Creatures – An array of small plasticine balls with eyes who travel in a swarm; the smallest of the group, Little Green, features prominently on his own in a number of episodes.
• Gobbledygook – A green, omnivorous alien child (who arrived on the table by sleeping near Morph's box in The Amazing Adventures of Morph, but in The Morph Files, he arrived by mistakenly being printed from a 'Space Invaders' style game).
• The Paint Pots - A group of sentient paint pots who can morph their paint into facsimiles of people; unlike Morph and Chas, they are able to speak coherently (one of them even chides Morph for his non-existent linguistic skills on multiple occasions); they only appear in Take Hart
• Talking Lamp - A Luxo lamp who warns the others when Tony is entering the room; like the Paint Pots, he only appears in Take Hart, but later reappeared in a 2018 short in a silent role more akin to Luxo Jr.

Credits

1980

• Narrator: Tony Hart
• Editor: Alan Trott
• Sound Effects: Peter Harwood
• Animated and directed by: Peter Lord, David Sproxton
• Produced by: Patrick Dowling

1997

• Narrator: Murray Cook, Emma Ryan, Greg Page, Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt, Meaghan Woodhouse, Sian Ryan

• Editor: Leanne Ashely
• Sound Effects: Kathleen Warren
• Animated and directed by: Peter Lord, Paul Field
• Produced By: The Wiggles
• Voices: Merlin Crossingham

1995

• Narrator: Neil Morrissey
• Animators: Aardman Animations, including Mike Booth, Gary Cureton, Dave Osmand
• Computer Animation: Alan Snow
• Dubbing Editor: James Mather
• Special Sounds: Peter Harwood
• Writer: Andy Walker
• Film Editor: Andrew Hassenruck
• Producer: Jacqueline White
• Executive Producers: Peter Lord, David Sproxton

2006

• Narrator: Emily Yeung Daniel Cook

• Animators: Treehouse Tv

• Voice of Morph: Jake Goldberg

• Production Manager: Jackie Chan

• Computer Animation: Gene Wood

• Director: Nicholas Bufalo

2014

• Morph created by: Peter Lord and David Sproxton
• Voices by: Merlin Crossingham
• Script written by: Peter Lord, Sara Barbas, Patrick Makin
• Story Artist: Andy Janes
• Animators: Yago Alvarez, Adam M. Watts, Inez Woldman
• Sets and Props by: Kitty Clay
• Model Making: Chris Entwistle
• Lighting/Camera by: Nat Sale
• Camera Assistant: Adam Cook
• Permanent Way Engineer (Chas Express): Tony Prescott
• Script Coordinator: Ngaio Harding-Hill
• Production Coordinator: Danny Gallagher
• Compositors: Jon Biggins, Spencer Cross
• Editor: Dan Hembery
• Assistant Editor: Ben Craske
• Music (Twin Decks): Bunkersonix
• Sound by: Will Norie @ Evolutions
• Associate Producers: Stewart Abel, Dawn Adams, John Gleaves, Dianne Martin
• Executive Producers: Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Heather Wright, Christopher Blower
• Producer: Helen Argo
• Director: Merlin Crossingham

2018

• Morph created by: Peter Lord and David Sproxton
• Voices by: Merlin Crossingham
• Script written by: Merlin Crossingham
• Story Artist: Nigel Davies
• Animators: Wendy Griffiths
• Sets and Props by: Charlie Brandon-King
• Lighting/Camera by: Nat Sale
• Camera Assistant: Adam Cook
• Production Manager: Sami Goddard
• Compositors: Jon Biggins, Bram Ttwheam
• Editors: Dan Hembery, Ben Craske
• Colourist: Bram Ttwheam
• Music by: Josh Brown
• Sound by: Laura Izzard
• Executive Producers at Aardman: Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Alix Wiseman
• Executive Producer at Sky: Lucy Murphy
• Producer: Helen Argo
• Director: Danny Capozzi