often comments on things in old sounding, folklore sounding sayings. Skip-Pea (female): A young pea with blonde pigtails, who has two red bows on her head and always skips by using her skipping rope. Sleep-Pea (male): A dozy pea who wears a nightcap and sleeps too much, so always misses occasions that all the others turn up for. Slop-Pea (male): An artistic painting pea who has messy ginger hair, carries a paintbrush and is always covered in blobs of paint. In the later books, is sometimes shown to have an unpredictable artistic temperament. Snap-Pea (male): The photographer of the "Daily Pod" newspaper who wears a hat with a press pass in its brim and carries a camera. Snip-Pea (male): A barber pea who has smartly combed black hair and a brown moustache and carries a comb and pair of scissors. Snoop-Pea (male): A detective pea who wears a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker hat and carries a yellow magnifying glass. Soap-Pea (female): A clean pea who always has soapy bubbles covering her head, carries a bar of pink soap and often blows bubbles. Sweep-Pea (male): A street sweeper pea with a thin black moustache, who wears a brown cap and carries a broom and a waste bin. Sweet Pea (female): An attractive pea with a blonde ponytail and blue eyes, who wears a magenta bow on her head and both her feet. Tea-Pea (female): A tea lady pea with brown hair who wears a white maid's hat (or mob cap), and carries a teapot and a teacup. Wee McPea (male): A small Scottish pea, who has a ginger moustache and wears a Tam o'shanter. Weep-Pea (male): An easily-upset pea who always cries whenever he gets injured or something goes wrong and carries a handkerchief. Zip-Pea (male): A fast pea with thin black hair who wears a sweatband on his head, and always runs around quicker than the others. Episodes The first twelve episodes were shown on BBC One as part of the Children's BBC strand on Thursdays at 3:50pm, while the last one was shown on that same channel, three weeks and one day after the penultimate one (because of its seasonal subject matter), on a Friday at 10:50am. Credits Written and created by: Paul Needs Original Designs: Colin Wyatt Directors: Colin White, Pat Gavin Series Director: Pat Gavin Producer: Laurie Frost Executive Producer: Ian Green Narration: Neil Pearson Music and Lyrics: