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This show never ever ever jumped! It was one of the shows I love best from childhood. When I was ages 5 and 6 I had a number of operations on my eyes to try and save my vision. The right eye could not be saved and I had to use an eye patch for a while to iut. I got hoards of pirate jokes from the kids at school and felt pretty cruddy about it for a time. Then I saw this show. Yah sure, DM was a cartoon. But he, unlike anyone else on TV that I knew at the time had, just like I did, an eye patch. And he was cool about it. He could drive and had a cool job and was awsome! I figured that if DM could have a go at the world with only one eye and an eye patch to boot, maybe not seeing well wasn't too bad after all.

It's been nearly 25 years from that time to this. I'm still unable to see, am in fact quite visually impaired and while it has its ups and downs, it still isn't that bad of a life. I know it is stupid to say a cartoon changed my life, but in a way, this one did. DM was a major influence on my early years and I wish my daughters and son could grow up with the same sort of programing I did as a child. Now a days it's all a bunch of hyper cartoon, and sometimes not cartoon but child actors, running around screeming and acting like total fools, and this is what our kids are meant to look up to as to how to act? And people wonder why Johnny and little Susie can't sit still for more than five seconds. Kids are going to be kids, run around, yell, things like that, but the over the top moronic crap that they view today I think makes it just a bit worse. Then again, "You Can't Do That On Tellevision" drove my mother crazy while I loved every water drenched green slime dripping moment of it. She did however like Danger Mouse. P.s. If it came on TV again, I sure would watch it. I would love to have it on DVD as well to share with my youngest two as they are just 2 years old and a week and a half old. The older two were already on to this crap TV by the time I came along, but for my youngest it isn't too late. LOL

Yeah, maybe i'm no longer a kid anymore but DM was so much better than what they show kids today. I found an old VHS tape with a few DamgerMouse episodes on it (old school commercials and all) and i made my wife watch it. Classic stuff.

My all-time favourite cartoon! Penfold is an hysterically funny coward : he wouldn't attend a meeting of Cowards Anonymous which was being held on a chicken farm because he was too afraid! & what broke up Dangermouse's liaison with Fifi, the French lady field-mouse? I sawr rit on both sides of the 'Pond'. I have just recently bought the complete DVD set & have relished it! 'He's the greatest, he's fantastic ... Dangermouse!'

Never jumped...The Monty Python of Cartoons,IMHO...and Penfold rules!!!

"Ah crumbs,Chief!"

In my opinion, the show jumped during it's brief comeback in the early 1990's. The plotlines are harder to follow, Colonel K is now a mostly absent-minded fool, and the show's last episode ended on a question mark...WHERE was London and WHAT exactly happened to it? DM helped save the world from a black hole, but his pillar box and some sidewalk left to support it were all that was left of the city, sitting by itself in a vacant wasteland. DM and the Colonel fretted over the predicament, but failed to come up with a solution before the final fade-out. In spite of this, I own the entire series on DVD, having liked the show on Nickelodeon as a kid and my interest in it having been re-kindled. But the 1980's episodes, in my opinion, were the best ones.

I kind of liked DangerMouse when I was probably 8 years old. I liked most episodes, like "Long Lost Crown Affair", (when D.M. and Ernest Penfold get caught up in a game of Snooker, Indiana Jones style, while looking for the crown of the Aztecs, or Incas, or something) "The Statue of Liberty Caper", (when D.M. and Penfold search for Lady Liberty, which falls on them, and Baron Silas Greenback (and I myself) thought they were goners, until they arrive, as if miraculously, and explain their escape from being crushed) the episode when Penfold tries to arrest D.M. (I think it was "Public Enemy No. 1"; I like that when D.M. falls down a building, and Penfold says, as he chases him down, "Chief... you... are... un... der... arrest!"), and "Penfold, B.F." (when Penfold takes some pill from Dr. Squawkencluck and transforms into a superhero, though its effects last only for a long time until they wear off) I also saw the part of "A Dune With a View" when the plane runs out of fuel and lands into the Sahara Desert, and D.M. and Penfold have to survive by conserving water; Penfold, however, is always klutzy when he had drunk all of it during a trip, because the next thing he knew, he was suffering from a heatstroke and passes out from thirst, and D.M. has to carry him to an oasis in an attempt to revive him and quench his thirst. And there was only a part when D.M. and Penfold walk through the snow and sometimes avoid an avalanche while in the Alps in "Alping is Snow Easy Matter". But I think that this show jumped the shark in the shocking final episode, "The Intergalactic 147", (I never saw this episode, but I only learned it from the Internet) when the aliens are playing with the planets and the cosmic powers in Snooker, and D.M. and Penfold try to save the Earth from being sucked into a black hole; sadly, however, it ended with parts of the Earth being destroyed by the black hole, and the possible demise of D.M., Penfold, and their London town. I never thought I would learn about this show again, but now that Seasons 1 and 2 of this show finally arrived here on DVD (May 31, 2005), I just hope the people out there, wherever they are in England, will release all the other 8 seasons here in the future (I just hope David Jason, who did D.M., the narrator and Count Duckula, lives to see it all released on DVD in said future). As the Season 6 episode would say, "Viva DangerMouse!"

What a great show... I would love for someone to bring it back to Nick or Cartoon Network. I do agree that the Count and Banana Man were pretty weak. I loved the Baron and Nero. DangerMouse... He's the Best..

Wow - I can't believe Danger Mouse is actually on this site. Well done! One of the best cartoons ever. Just off to vote for Count Duckula...

OK, first let me say that I'm over 30 and I don't go in for nostalgia over my childhood. However, I still sit down and watch Dangermouse on satellite TV, and I'm still as entertained and amused as when I first watched it. It's one of the very few cartoons that doesn't seem to age due to it's quirky surrealism and excellent characterisations by some of the very best British actors in the business.

Never jumped as far as I know, I only saw the eighties episodes. It was better when Mike Harding did guest voices (eg the talking machines). Depsite what anyone says to the contrary Dangermouse is David Jason's greatest contribution to television

This is possibly the funniest British cartoon of all time- makes me proud to be a Brit! Anything with David Jason in is a pre-determined success, it would seem, and DangerMouse is undoubtedly a success. I only wish they could bring it back, but I believe the voice of Penfold has, sadly, passed away. I'll just have to put up with Boomerang showing it at highly inappropriate times, it would seem. It was brilliantly witty for a kids cartoon and it's something nobody should ever feel ashamed to watch, no matter what the age.

Danger Mouse is one of my favourite shows (Like Thomas) But it jumped the shark on the very last episode. What happens is Danger Mouse must stop the Earth from ported into a black hole, as part of an Intergalactic Snooker game. But London's disappeared. How can they end it like that? But still, the other episodes were great.

DangerMouse: The Nicktoon that time forgot. If this show somehow returned to a timeslot when kids would actually get to see it, there's no doubt in my mind that Rugrats and all the other drudge that passes for entertainment on Nickelodeon nowadays would be swiftly kicked to the curb. DM was one of those cartoons where, 10 years later, you could watch old episodes, laugh at the slapstick you saw as a kid, AND pick up on all the wit and sarcasm that you didn't get as a youngster. Just a classic, classic cartoon.

A cartoon that, like all the true classics, managed at one and the same time to amuse kids and adults. Children loved it, while adults (or at least big kids!) got the stuff that went *way* over the kids' heads. Thank you, Cosgrove Hall - and thank you Pearsons for finally rereleasing the videos and on DVD.

This show never jumped. I remember my parents letting me stay up to watch danger mouse because it was my favorite show, and they watched right along with me. It was a classic, and even though I'm 21, I certainly would watch faithfully if they brought it back.