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"You cheated. You get the car" "BUT I WANTED THE DOGGY TREATS!!"
-1st show host 2nd small dog2 Stupid Dogs
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 Aired: 1970 - 1998
Show Type: Live Action
Bosco was an Irish children's television programme produced during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was produced by the Lambert Puppet Theatre. Bosco was voiced by Miriam Lambert initially, in later years Paula Lambert took over the character.
The main character in the programme was Bosco, a small red-haired puppet with bright red cheeks. Bosco lived in a box, which he only left to go on excursions to places such as Dublin Zoo
Any guests to the show would enter and exit through the 'Magic Door'. This was also used to exit the shot to any inserts in the show. The Magic Door told where people (or the camera shot) were going through song.
There were various short animations, usually stop-motion, as part of the show. The plonksters were plasticine critters, which were continually engaged in fights or schemes against each other. Flaherty was a dog, continually plagued by an amateur crow magician in a series of shorts featuring stop-motion models. Freddy the Fox featured a host of well-modelled characters, with distinctive traits, such as Fiachra the Frog. There was also a cartoon featuring a potato family, The McSpuds, that lived in a supermarket (Savers). At night, the potato children, Sheila and Seamus, would run amok.
The show featured arts and crafts segments, in the style of the BBC's children's programme Blue Peter. Another main part of the show was story-time. A shared cultural experience for children in Ireland at the time, it ran for at least 300 episodes, but was repeated before (and later during) The Den daily until 1998.
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