Little Armadillos (1984) User Reviews

The best kept secret in comedy history

[VinnieTheDog · 8/10 · 16 February 2006]

I loved this show. I used to actually leave the pub ten minutes before closing and run down the road to catch it. I remember Daniel Peacock's sketch about Gandhi in the newsagents as a masterpiece. The set design and lighting were out of this world, creating an atmosphere that you felt you were actually living in. V unusual for a comedy.

Unfortunately I have only encountered one other person (apart from the other reviewer here) who ever knew that this programme existed. In fact I have to thank the IMDb for coming into existence and proving to me that I hadn't in fact imagined the whole series in a drunken haze, which I was seriously starting to believe!

Great after pub humour

[mike-angell · 9/10 · 17 August 2006]

I remember this in a similar vein to the Young Ones. We'd stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other.

We called one of our mates "Zipmole Watkins" after the brilliant episode in which Daniel Peacock has a bit of 'restyling' on his nose by the Back Street Abortionist.

Lots of great lines "Remember at 5:30 in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man. Take it easy guy!" - Gandhi as a local shopkeeper.

Tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching Ralph (Daniel Peacock) to be a barman "It's no good Amanda I'll never make it as a bar man" Helen Lederer teaches him to ask people about the match "See the match last night? I thought Woodcock played well" After a string of failed conversations the curly haired Arsenal star was sitting at the bar: "See the match last night?" "Yeah. I thought I played well"

We still do odd stupid lines now - "Reg and Ralph..... or....... Ralph and Reg. Reg, Reg... Reg Reg Reg Reg"

Lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the Flatlets - The Back Street Abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line - "And he'll mark your packages 'Return To Sender"

Good old Danny Peacock - you added a lot to some young drinkers' evenings sir.

**Update - I found a couple of episodes on tape - I'm going to upload the Gandhi sketch to Youtube **

In my memory it was fabulous

[garywarmington · 9/10 · 24 September 2022]

As a late night show after everything was finished this was our household highlight. I haven't seen it since 1984 and can't find any recording of it so it's just a memory of enjoyment that I'd base it being a 9 on. Daniel Peacock stood out for me as the star and I've enjoyed every thing he's done since purely based on seeing him in Little Armadillos even though I can't really remember what it was about. However I still like everything I liked as a 20 year old so I'm guessing it was as funny as I thought. It's a shame that many programs were not recorded or repeated and this would be the one I'd like to see again most.

fond memories of little armadillos

[simon-1047 · 7 March 2006]

hi bev-19, i'm glad i'm not alone in remembering little armadillos, also very pleased to see that your comment was so recent. you probably know how frustrating it is to remember a programme so fondly only to find that practically everyone you mention it to has never heard of it. being an arsenal supporter i particularly remember an episode that featured tony woodcock in the bar, he was only in it for a moment but as he was my hero at the time it was a very special moment. i can still remember yelling to my dad that tony woodcock was on tele but by the time my dad arrived in the room the sketch was over and i don't think he believed me, he thought i must have been mistaken. perhaps it will be repeated one day on one of the comedy channels on cable but i wont hold my breath. posted by Sara. xx

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[chris_hughes-2 · 9/10 · 30 December 2008]

Ahhhh, 1984.... I was young and stupid, and just developing a taste for those exotic cigarettes, whilst living in a squat in Manchester's Moss Side, with the most unbelievable case of cockroach infestation.

After a few of those doobies, this show was ROTFLMAO material - I was an avid fan. Then I'd look down at the floor (or up at the walls, or just about anywhere) and see my very own collection of "little armadillos" scuttling about.

Not sure if it was the chemical enhancement, but I remember thinking at the time that the overt surrealism of the show was fantastic - it was my second favourite thing on TV at the time (#1 was the season of Luis Bunuel movies being shown by Channel 4). Radical art lives on!

Also you gotta that theme tune! ....I swear, I'll never drink no more....