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Jamboree

Jamboree
TV series 1998 - 2000
Created by Floella Benjamin
Starring Floella Benjamin and Warwick Davis; names of other cast members unavailable

I discovered the existence of this TV series during the 2000 season. I learned that it was also aired in 1998 and 1999 in the Resume section of the Warwick Davis Official Website.

Jamboree is a BBC educational television series aimed at children age 3 to 8. It features Floella Benjamin as an ordinary human character, and four heavy-costume characters called the Bopkins. Warwick plays Baby Bopkin, the smallest character shown in the photo.

Here's how the Jamboree webpage (no longer online) described Warwick's character: "Baby Bopkin is the cute, sweet and innocent Bopkin who wants to learn about everything. He is always wanting to find out how things work and never goes anywhere without his teddy."

Here's what Warwick had to say about the show in an interview with IGN for Men: "The children's series I'm working on is called Jamboree, it's for sort of really pre-school children. Kind of on a similar line of Sesame Street, really. It teaches children the basics of numbers and all that sort of thing. It's quite nice."

I haven't had a chance to check out this show myself because I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic. If anyone out there has seen the show and wants to tell me about it, please send me an e-mail.