Film
Bing’s Animal Stories
- Director
- Tom Robins
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 71 mins
This latest compilation of yarns from the popular pre-schooler animated TV series centres on episodes with beastly content.
Seven episodes are included. Here are the synopses (exclamation marks all theirs):
Woof!
“I couldn’t keep the doggie but I can still play with her because she’s my new friend.”
Bing falls in love with a lost dog he and Flop find in the park and decides he wants to keep her. When the owner turns up, Bing is upset when it comes to saying goodbye to his new friend.
Playhouse
“Sometimes when you make a playhouse; you have to wait so the baby birdies can be okay!”
Sula, Pando & Bing find a birdie’s nest in their playhouse, but they can’t both be in it at the same time.
Ducks
“If you’re very quiet, and statue-still, then the duckies will come.”
Duck duck duckie, quack quack quack! Bing and Sula go to the park to feed the ducks. But Bing throws all his duck food into the water in one go and gets more than he bargained for when a big flappy goose comes to gobble it all up.
Fire Engine
“If you help Arlo, maybe you can sit in the Fire Engine too!”
Pando & Sula both sit in the Fire Engine but when it’s Bing’s turn; it leaves! Flop, Amma, Sula
& Bing walk to Bing’s house where Arlo’s stuck on the neighbour’s roof & Bing helps the firefighters get Arlo down!
Frog
“In my house I’ve got a bed and a blankie but that’s coz I’m not a frog and they like different things to me.”
Bing finds a frog in the garden and wants to keep it so he and Sula make the frog a ‘house’ in a bucket. But froggy doesn’t like her new home and hops out. Maybe they’ve not thought enough about what froggy really needs in her home.
Squiggle
“A squiggle is not just a squiggle; you can make it into ANYTHING!”
Bing & Coco are drawing Gilly a picture, but when Bing goes to say hello, Charlie does a big
squiggle on Bing’s drawing! And so, Gilly shows them a game called “Squiggling!”
Cat
“If you want to play with a cat, you have to make friends with it first.”
On the way home, Bing spots a new cat but this one isn’t as friendly as Arlo and scares Bing when he tries to play with it.
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