It’s not much of a life when you’re just a pretty face. Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace. Don’t be scared if you don’t fit in, look who’s in the reject bin. It’s the Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls, dolls like you and me… Nice!! just the thing to tell a kid. You can have as much fun as you like, but at the end of the day nobody loves you. You are a waste of space!
The Raggy Dolls. As you might have gathered by now, it’s about a bunch of dolls that didn’t quite make the grade. But that’s OK, because they have lots of adventures and fun together, and always end up helping out someone else in the process. How nice. What would we do without rejects?
This fantastic cartoon was shown on ITV before Childrens ward, My favourite character was the little blonde one who was meant to be a princess. I was gutted when they cancelled this cartoon..we should start a petition to bring this back!
The blonde Raggy Doll was actually supposed to be a princess, not a ballerina (Although she does look like one) and her name is Princess. The other six were Dotty (The girl in dungarees who had blobs of paint in her hair), Lucy (The girl with shorter brown hair), HiFi (The guy who had a stammer and wore headphones all the time), Claude (The French Doll) Back-to-Front (The builder doll with his head on backwards) and Sadsack (The one who looked like a bean bag.)
The series was created by Melvyn Jacobson, and produced for Yorkshire Television from 1986 to 1994. The episodes were written and voiced by Neil Innes, who also wrote and sang the theme song. The owner of the factory was Mr Grimes, who falls in love with a woman called Cynthia. Cynthia eventually marries Mr Grimes and the Raggy Dolls were moved from the Reject Bin to live at Mr Grimes’ house. (see he did love the little freaks!)
Unfortunately the Raggy dolls have not been put on to DVD yet but Amazon has lots of copies of it on VHS click here
Just remember kids….Just to be whoever you are is no discrace!
