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Yonderland, A British TV Series To Utterly Fall In Love With

You may have seen me express my love for the Children's BBC show Horrible Histories on Bleeding Cool before. Well that show that educated both myself and my children about the everyday Tudor use for excrement and won every award going in the process came to an end last year, They'd basically run out of history to be horrible about.

But the team wanted to keep going. So the cast and crew created a new show, for Sky TV, called Yonderland. A fantasy series about Debbie, a mother of a normal English house who finds herself summoned as the Chosen One to sort out a fantasy land being threatened by evil. Fitting into the Gulliver's Travels mode of allegory, she does so with the assistance of the elf with a rather long and convoluted name who Debbie just calls "Elf" to the retort "Bit racist." Together with a sentient walking stick called Nick, a council of elders with one who insists on removing his clothes at any opportunity, they wandered the land trying to prevent a rather serious evil from taking it over – with all the characters coming together for the final Big Bad – and leaving  us with a serious cliffhanger to match.

With very little budget, and using muppets for other creatures, they used the very shoddiness as a strength, never taking themselves seriously, and generally being very fun and silly throughout.

But because it was on Sky, on a non-Sports channel and not at prime time, hardly anyone watched it. But I think it was utterly brilliant. And it's available on DVD in a week.

For anyone with kids, or who remembers what it was like to be a kid, or just loved Horrible Histories, or is an Anglophile American keen to boast about a new acquisition of something that they won't show on BBC America, this should be a must-have. We have some clips below and you can order the DVD set right here.

You really should you know. It's absolutely wonderful. Monty Python does Labyrinth.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbqC7oaZozw[/youtube]

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