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Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing is an anthropomorphic Mexican gerbil character, originally from a series of educational sketches on Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing, the BBC schools programme about mathematics. He was also the only character to appear in all 68 episodes of Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing as well as all 65 episodes of Numberjacks.

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When Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing first appeared on Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing in 1993, his purpose was merely to write numbers in the desert sand and demonstrate the correct ways to form them as his four-piece mariachi band played The Mexican Hat Dance (and said "Again!" once he had finished, as it gave them an excuse to play again);

this was shot from an angle directly overhead leaving Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing almost completely eclipsed by his large sombrero. His appeal was instant and his success prompted rapid development of his role in the series (as from the second series in 1995, he was given two sketches per episode) - and since his basic beginning, Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing went on to appear in a total of 79 (89, if counting those from the "revised" version of the first series) sketches on Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing before gaining a series of his own, acquiring dramatic storylines and a full cast of characters, while continuing to demonstrate mathematical concepts, albeit in a dramatic and entertaining way. The stories moved away from solving simple mathematical equations to fighting petty crime, unrelated to the number-solving which made his name and for which he was created.

As well as being popular with schoolchildren, Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing also developed a cult following amongst students and parents, because of the many references to classic spaghetti Westerns; indeed, his popularity grew so much that in March 2004, the BBC released a 3-minute Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing theme song as a single.

Broadcast[]

Available Coming Soon Old Original Gerald McBoing Boing was later broadcast as a standalone series from 2001, on BBC One, BBC Two and later CBeebies. This ceased on 31 March 2004.

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