Season 7 • Episode 11
LatestButton Moon is a quirky, popular children's television programme broadcast in the United Kingdom in the 1980s on the ITV Network. Thames Television produced each episode, which lasted ten minutes and featured the adventures of Mr. Spoon who, in each episode, travels to Button Moon in his homemade rocket-ship. All of the characters within the show are based on kitchen utensils, as well as many of the props. Once on Button Moon, which hangs in "blanket sky", they have an adventure, and look through Mr. Spoon's telescope at someone else such as the Hare and the Tortoise, before heading back to their home on 'Junk Planet'. Episodes also include Mr. Spoon's wife, "Mrs. Spoon", their daughter, "Tina Tea-Spoon" and her friend "Eggbert". The series ended in 1988 after 91 episodes.
Practical Effects
Every prop is kitchen junk. Zero CGI. Art department = someone's drawer.
Writing
91 episodes of spoon family doing telescope tourism. Commitment to bit.
Creator
Ian Allen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thames Television's Button Moon represents peak 'cosy catastrophe' era — post-apocalyptic junk planet rendered as safe domestic fantasy for Thatcher-era kids.
Ian Allen originally pitched the show as educational; the ITV executives reportedly greenlit it because 'the spoon looked cheap to make.' They were correct.
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