Harvy's House

Harvy's House was a Kuboian Saturday evening children's variety television series that aired on Bumper's Block. It was hosted by puppet character Harvy, a purple alien who was voiced by Roddy Graston, and was divided into multiple different segments, including interviews, previews of other children's programmes and quizzes, broadcast live in front of an audience of children.

The show ran for a total of three series, each with eighteen episodes, from 1993 until 1996, where it was cancelled due to budget cuts made by the TVVC. It occupied the 7:00p.m. timeslot for all four of its series.

History and production
When deciding on the mascot for Bumper's Block, Dominic Halls came up with a green spherical cyclops creature and a purple one. Ultimately, the green one was chosen, whilst the purple one was chosen for the character of Harvy. Unlike Bumper, who could only make alien sounds, Harvy was fully capable of human speech.

Harvy's House premiered on 21st August, 1993 at 7:00p.m. Although the show was supposed to premiere in January earlier that year, it was postponed since several of the show's elements were "not ready" according to Halls.

Harvy's voice actor Roddy Graston believes that the show was produced under a tight budget, as he was given very little time to practice his lines. A few of the games played on the show were originally supposed to be their own programme, but were added to Harvy's House to save on money.

Legacy
Approximately half of the editions of Harvy's House are considered lost. Graston has several episodes in his personal collection, but these are not publicly available. In 2021, a Discord server dedicated to finding the missing episodes was created.

It is widely believed that TVVC either junked all editions of the show in January 2005, where it was reported that they were disposing of items and equipment deemed "no longer of practical use".