Malachi Hall star in animated comedy series ‘Badjelly’

In this 13-part animated series based on Spike Milligan’s book, Badjelly is a witch whose powers are on the fritz. Attempting to create a magic-restoring boy/girl soup, she enlists her bumbling giant assistant, Dulboot, to find children for her soup-pot. But Dulboot foolishly returns with a cow instead.

Siblings Tim and Rose realise their beloved cow Lucy is missing. They set out to find her and discover a world unlike anything they’ve ever seen; dazzling magic, wondrous characters and an unstable witch’s curse.

The kids meet Binklebonk, a paranoid tree goblin struggling with local trouser robbers; Rusty, a water-intolerant mechanical lion; Mudwiggle, the world’s strongest worm-slash-ferry operator; and Dinglemouse, former banana-turned-swashbuckling mouse.

The gang travel with Tim and Rose through many strange places, including a field of dangerous Confusalilies, the foggy, froggy Fwomp Swamp and over the Bearded Mountain to face off with the “horridible” witch terrorising the valley – Badjelly.

L&C’s brilliant Malachi Hall stars as Tim in ‘Badjelly’; available from 16th October on ITVX.