| Hector's House, | |
| A CBBC Show | |
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| Genre | Puppets |
| Country of origin | France |
| No. of Series | 07 |
| No. of Episodes | 78 |
| Run Time | Unknown |
| Network | 1ère chaine (France) BBC One (CBBC) |
| Duration | 7 October 1966 – 13 November 1970 |
Hector's House, originally called La Maison de Toutou, is a children's show which used glove puppets. It was first broadcasted in France in 1966 and ran for 78 episodes. It was re-voiced in English and broadcasted on BBC One between 1968 and 1970 and then regularly repeated throughout the 1970s. Each episode lasted 5 minutes.
The story takes place in a house with a large beautiful garden, owned by a dog named Hector who lives with a cat named Zsazsa. Their neighbour, the frog Kiki, often visits them. In the original French programme, Zsazsa was named Zouzou and Hector was Toutou. Each episode ends with Hector addressing the camera and saying "I'm a great big [whatever he was] old Hector."
Plot[]
Affable, but sometimes pompous, Hector the dog lives live in a house with a beautiful garden. He is a proud gardener and handyman, never far from his tool shed. The motherly, but mischievous, Zsazsa the cat lives with him. Kiki the frog is a neighbour and constant visitor to the garden through a hole in the garden wall. She claims to be a meteorologist.
The original French characters of Zsazsa and Kiki were the similarly named Zouzou and Kiki, with Hector being the titular Toutou (literally "Doggie")
Hector's House has been released several times on VHS and DVD.promo
External links[]
- Hector's House on Wikipedia