Bertha (TV series)

Bertha is a British stop motion-animated children's television series about a factory machine of that name, comprising 13 episodes that aired from to. Other major characters in the series were Mr Willmake (factory owner), Mr Sprott (Bertha's chief designer) and Tracy (Mr Sprott's young assistant). All the characters were designed by Ivor Wood, and the series was produced by his company, Woodland Animations. It was broadcast on BBC Television.

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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|1
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Great Painting Job
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Jigsaw Puzzles
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Tracy designs a robot called T.O.M. (Talk Operated Machine) to help at the factory.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|2
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Windmills
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Musical Windmill Money Boxes
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Mr.Sprott's money boxes are working well, but how do you get the coin out?
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|3
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Mouse in the Works
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Jack-In-The-Boxes
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Panjid and the rest of the factory try to stop a mouse from nibbling their boxes.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|4
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Best Machine Competition
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Humming Tops
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|When Mr Willmake wants Mr Sprott to design the best toy for a competition, Mr Duncan wants it to be made by a new machine, but everyone else wants it to be made by Bertha
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|5
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Tom Gets Lost
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Building Blocks
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|A magnet fries T.O.M.'s brain, so he scares the rest of the Spottiswood factory by disappearing.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|6
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Flying Bear
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Inflatable Bears
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|On a very hot day, Bertha is making plastic bears. Why do they keep growing?
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|7
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Tea Nurse
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Watering Cans
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Bertha is working slowly and keeps stopping; Mrs.Tupp comes to the rescue.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|8
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|More Speed, Less Work
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Garden Gnomes
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|While Mr. Willmake is at a meeting, Mr. Duncan closes down Bertha, who was making garden gnomes.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|9
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Big Order
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Springs
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Bertha has to make 365 springs but Tom and Roy have trouble with the whippy, springy steel.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|10
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Burglars
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Jumping Kangaroos
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Burglars break into the factory and steal money.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|11
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Bertha's Birthday Party
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Cuckoo Clocks
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|On Bertha's 50th anniversary, Roy wonders why the hands on a clock are called hands.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|12
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Big Sneeze
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Beach Balls
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Bertha gets cold and sneezes so strongly that she causes havoc in the factory.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|13
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Tom's New Friend
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Sponges
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Mrs. Tupp is cross about a new vending machine, but Tom soon fixes it.
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|12
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|The Big Sneeze
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Beach Balls
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Bertha gets cold and sneezes so strongly that she causes havoc in the factory.
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|13
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Tom's New Friend
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Sponges
 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Mrs. Tupp is cross about a new vending machine, but Tom soon fixes it.
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 * style="padding-right:0.4em;padding-left:0.4em;"|Mrs. Tupp is cross about a new vending machine, but Tom soon fixes it.
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Video Releases
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 * 1) Bertha - The Flying Bear
 * 2) Postman Pat and Friends
 * 3) Postman Pat and Company
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 * 1) Bertha Vol. 1 (Best Machine Compition)
 * 2) Bertha Vol. 2 (Bertha's Birthday)-->