Bodger and Badger (Island of Sally)

Bodger and Badger was a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcasted in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes. It was spawned from a pair of 1988 appearances the double act made in the Saturday morning BBC1 children's programme On the Waterfront.

The programme focused on the exploits of a handyman - Simon Bodger (played by Andy Cunningham) - and his pet badger, who has a penchant (some may say an obsession) for mashed potato (although this always seems to be instant mash potato and not proper mashed potatoes). The first four series focused on Bodger's varying jobs as a handyman and his attempts to hide Badger from his bosses (who would inevitably fire him should they discover a badger on their premises). However, it is not revealed how Badger kept following Simon to work if he was not allowed there, or why Simon allowed it himself.

A format change from series 5 begun to show the two at home rather than Bodger's workplace (although Bodger's home also became his workplace in series 8 & 9 which were set in a B&B hotel run by Mr. Bodger). Series 5 to 7 rarely - if ever - mentioned Mr Bodger's employment, suggesting this was a period where he was unemployed, although it is mentioned in Series 7 that he works as an odd-job man for his landlady. These series still focused on Bodger's attempts to hide Badger from figures of authority (his landlady from Series 5 to 7 then the tourist information officer in series 9. This was presumably for health and safety reasons - a badger would constitute a hygiene and safety risk). They also began to feature less of Bodger, concentrating more on Badger and his friend Mousey. She was a well-meaning but dim-witted mouse, who had a fondness for cheese. These later episodes increased the slapstick humour from the earlier episodes and additionally featured prominent comedic sound effects and incidental music, which were largely absent from the first two series but gradually increased in prominence throughout series three and four. However the early episodes mostly featured Bodger and Badger doing some activity in a sped-up sequence, this largely died out around the time the music and sound effects increased in prominence.

There are three versions of the Sallyish dub: the Discovery Kids version, the TV7 version, and the Nickelodeon dub. The TV7 version of the dub formerly also aired on Nickelodeon. The dubber in the Discovery Kids version is Sarah-Lee Wenteler and James Yusente, while the TV7 version of the dub, there is only one dubber, Laura Lakenerej. The first two dubs utilised voiceover translation due to a long-standing ban on full dubbing, however, due to the ban's relxation, Nickelodeon made a third, fully-dubbed Sallyish versiin in 2013 at Google Productions.