Season 3 • Episode 10
LatestRastamouse is a British animated stop motion children's TV series created by Genevieve Webster and Michael De Souza and produced by Three Stones Media/The Rastamouse Company for CBeebies. The show follows crime-busting mouse reggae band Da Easy Crew, who split their time between making music and solving mysteries for Da President of Mouseland. The first 52 episodes of the initial series were shown in the afternoon beginning 31 January 2011 on CBeebies. From 7 March 2011, the programme was repeated in the early mornings, on BBC Two. The second series, comprising a further 26 episodes, started on 20 August 2012, on CBeebies.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion puppetry with surprising warmth and texture.
Score
Original reggae bops that slap harder than they should.
Writing
Crime plots with 'make a bad ting good' restorative justice.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Created by Black British writers to center Rastafarian culture positively in children's media — radical for 2011 CBeebies.
Reggie Yates recorded all Rastamouse's dialogue in a single day per series, often improvising the musical numbers.
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