Review for The Raggy Dolls: Series One

The Raggy Dolls has possibly the catchiest theme song that I have ever heard… ok, maybe not as catchy as Duck Tales (ooowooo!), but still catchy enough that I cannot get it out of my head. This is hardly surprising with the music and songs being created by former Bonzoo Dog Doo-Dah band leader Neil Innes. Innes also wrote much of the series created by Melvyn Jacobson and also narrates the entire series.
The Raggy Dolls live in the reject bin of Mr Grimes' toy factory. It is explained that they are there for a variety of reasons, such as Back-To-Front, who as you can guess, has his head back to front, Dotty has been splattered with paint, Sad Sack was too expensive to mass produce and so on. Almost like Toy Story with all the characters coming to life for no apparent reason. This is never explored or explained and to be honest I'm glad that was the case. The thirteen eleven minute episodes follow simple stories such as Christmas, discovering a toy plane, Claude being French and Princess' Bin Day. These are all fine and don't venture far from other children's cartoons.
Special Features include sing along versions of the opening and closing theme, though oddly still with the lyrics being sung and a Meet the Raggy Dolls section which describes each character and how they came to be in the Reject Bin. These are all fine, though if they were going to go to the effort of creating features they should have at least included a game or two for the younger audience.
The Raggy Dolls is a lovely little blast from the past, though I'm not sure in the all singing High School Musical world, whether kids will still enjoy this show, it should certainly keep them amused for a few hours. Now, if only I could get this song out of my head!