Stoppit and Tidyup was a British children's animated cartoon television series produced by CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions in 1987 and screened on BBC One with repeats on BBC Two from 12 September to 5 December 1988. The episodes feature two protagonists, Stoppit and Tidyup, interacting with various other inhabitants of the mythical land of Do As You're Told. Each episode was five minutes in length, and narrated by Terry Wogan. The series was created by Charles Mills and Terry Brain (who had previously created the claymation series The Trap Door in 1984), and partly funded by The Tidy Britain Group. The third member of the team behind the show was animator Steve Box who later gained success after moving to Aardman Animations. The introduction theme music to Stoppit and Tidyup's friends coming along the screen at the start of each episode was "Follow the Leader" by Bobby Hunter, Eric Peters and Robert Hunter from the Spectrum mood library. Description The short-running series features microscopic characters who live in the fictitious land of "Do As You're Told", a strange and colourful place (that was not completely separate from the human world, as one episode features a busy road and another features children playing) whose inhabitants are bugs named after orders directed at children by their parents. Unlike The Trap Door, which ran for 40 episodes over two series, only a single series of thirteen episodes was produced. Each episode is named after a character that features in the episode (however, the character "Not Now" did not have an episode named after him because he was the pet of the series' antagonist "I Said No"). The series followed the exploits of the eponymous Stoppit (a red bug of fluff with arms and legs), and Tidyup (a blue-haired, necktie-wearing purple bug who is shaped like a bowling pin), in their native land, which is filled with giant-to-them gherkins. Supporting characters include Beequiet and Beehave (two, as their names suggest, bees, the former of whom is huge and has a pursed-up mouth, but the latter is much smaller than him and does not, and they both have a mop of red hair at the top of their heads), Eat Your Greens (a blue-haired, green frog-like bug), Comb Your Hair (a blue cow-like spider with long orange hair and a bell round his neck), Wash Your Face (a Wellington boot-wearing bug without arms who