Oscar's Orchestra

30min

Oscar's Orchestra is a British children's animated TV series that ran from 1994 to 1996 comprising a total of three seasons and 39 episodes. The series was produced by the popular British animation studio Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment in association with Warner Music Vision and Europe Images and was originally shown on the BBC as part of the children's block CBBC. It has also aired on the British children's cable networks The Children's Channel and Nickleodeon, France 2 in France and ABC in Australia. It is set in the distant future, in the year 2743 in a city called New Vienna, and was about a talking piano called Oscar, who rebels against the evil dictator of the world, Thaddius Vent, who has banned music. Oscar and his fellow musical instruments plot against Vent and his henchmen, Lucius and Tank, and his soothsayer, Goodtooth, who always says: 'You screamed, master!'. The voice of Oscar was provided by Dudley Moore.

Episodes

Cast

The Battle Begins

1. The Battle Begins

30min

12th Sep 1995

Bach to the Future

2. Bach to the Future

30min

12th Sep 1995

The Flight of the Bumble-Bees

3. The Flight of the Bumble-Bees

30min

12th Sep 1995

Star Tours

4. Star Tours

30min

12th Sep 1995

Battle on Ice

5. Battle on Ice

30min

12th Sep 1995

The Four Seasons

6. The Four Seasons

30min

12th Sep 1995

Oscar Cracks the Nut

7. Oscar Cracks the Nut

30min

12th Sep 1995

1812

8. 1812

30min

12th Sep 1995

Star Crossed

9. Star Crossed

30min

12th Sep 1995

My Kingdom for a Tank

10. My Kingdom for a Tank

30min

12th Sep 1995

Viva Espana

11. Viva Espana

30min

12th Sep 1995

Once Upon a Ragtime

12. Once Upon a Ragtime

30min

12th Sep 1995

The Ring

13. The Ring

30min

12th Sep 1995

First air date

12th Sep 1995

Last air date

12th Sep 1995

Status

Returning Series

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks