SuperTed is Coming Back to TV Screens This Year

 Remember SuperTed.  The crime-fighting stuffed animal is on his way back

Via Mtero.co.uk
Creator Mike Young has revealed that a reboot of the much-loved eighties children’s cartoon, which was initially written in Welsh before being translated into English, is likely to be in production at some point this year.

"I got my start in Wales with SuperTed, the first ever show sold to Disney by an outside company, which we hope will be back in production this year, as well as finding and developing the iconic Fireman Sam in Wales," he said.

The animated BBC series, which was based on a book, ran from 1983 to 1985 and centred around a teddy bear who was thrown away ‘like a piece of rubbish’ at a toy factory for being less than perfect, before being brought to life by an alien named Spotty and eventually given special powers by ‘Mother Nature’.

Do you remember Skeleton?

Fans will remember that its main characters (other than SuperTed and Spotty) included evil cowboy Texas Pete, a cowardly skeleton and a rather stupid overweight main named Bulk.

But the animator, now 70, has previously made it clear that the new episodes will be undergoing a significant face-lift to fit with modern audiences.

"In SuperTed we had a gun-slinging cowboy, a flamboyantly gay skeleton and a fat guy who had jokes made about his weight. And all these things you just wouldn’t do today," he said.

Really? We had a gay cartoon character as far back as 1983? Gayism has been around for long so why are we still complaining about them in 2016?