Additional Material by Peter
Baynham and Graham Duff
Directed by Dominic Brigstocke
Produced by Robert Howes
Executive Producers Steve
Coogan and Henry Normal
A co-production between Baby
Cow Productions and The Children's Company for BBC
BBC 2
2001
A
SPECIAL
Combat
Sheep was a spin off from THE ROTTENTROLLS broadcast as a Christmas
Special on a BBC2 comedy night and got higher ratings than any
of the adult programmes at peak time.
Steve Coogan took over role
of Commander Harris, the deluded redundant military sheep mascot,
from John Thomson who was filming in Australia.
Puppeteers included Simon
Buckley, who was lead puppeteer, on THE ROTTENTROLLS and Nigel
Plaskitt who had just finished being the 'monkey' on the ITV
digital adverts with Johnny Vegas.
Trivia
Ronnie Ancona was the voice of PEACHES
and Alistair McGowan had appeared in the final ever episode of
THE ROTTENTROLLS.
The spoof James Bond love song in the
show, written by Tim, was arranged by Andrew Powell who produced
the first two Kate Bush albums and was part of the Alan Parson
Project.
Mark Benton also stars in Tim's TRAPPED
- KING OF FRIDGES (due for transmission later this year)
Combat
Sheep was a spin off from THE ROTTENTROLLS broadcast as a Christmas
Special on a BBC2 comedy night and got higher ratings than any
of the adult programmes at peak time.