Badjelly
2D ANIMATION, FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
13 x 22 min episodes
First Broadcast: 16 October 2025
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 & 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.
Based on the book “BADJELLY THE WITCH” by Spike Milligan
PRODUCTION
Cantilever Group (GB)
Mukpuddy Animation (NZ)
Sphere Animation (CA)
DIRECTORS
Ryan Cooper
Tim Evans
Alex Leighton
PRODUCERS
Marianne Culbert
Carys Rowan
Simon Ward
WRITERS
Ryan Cooper
Maddie Dai
Charlie Dinkin
Zoe Tomalin
Simon Ward
Tim Evans
Alex Leighton
Alan D. Parr
Richard Quirk
CAST
Miriam Margolyes
Ava Diakhaby
Malachi Hall
Rhys Darby
Joe Wilkinson
Cohen Holloway
Roisin Conaty
Mandip Gill
Katherine Parkinson
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
James Acaster
Julian Barratt