The Beano Videostars

Film Overview

Writer

Richard Everett
Terry Ward

Director

Terry Ward

Producer

Terry Ward

Composer

Runtime

54 minutes

Released

10 October 1994

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The Beano Videostars is the second video based on The Beano. It was released in 1994.

Plot[]

The video begins with a glimpse of the Planet Earth. Beanoversal, a parody of Universal, appears on the screen. Then two aliens appear. They notice what is happening on their ship monitor and so head towards Earth. The camera zooms, and as it does, spotlights appear. The spotlights come from the theatre, for the new Beano movie is about to premiere.

There is a presenter, who its here to introduce the characters to the audience.

The first to arrive is Dennis the Menace, riding his Menace Mobile. He shoots tomatoes at the presenter.

The presenter then welcomes the Bash Street Kids, and The 3 Bears, Ma, Pa, and Ted, are with them. They are followed by Billy Whizz, Minnie the Minx, and Ivy the Terrible, who makes her first appearance here riding her space hopper.

Then the aliens appear, and instead of gasping in wonder that there is life in the universe, the presenter gets frustrated, complaining about the aliens. The aliens go in the theatre and thus we get our first story:

The Snowman Army, where Dennis and Gnasher are marching with an army of snowmen and play snow pranks on others.

Next, in Jelly Babies, Minnie recites a poem about Jelly Babies before using some minxing to get herself some green ones.

Next, in The New School, a school inspector visits Bash Street School and is unimpressed with it's habits, so the kids are sent to the new Bash Street academy where they get a makeover.

During the interlude, Billy Whizz thinks Fatty's drink is warm so he gets some ice. He whizzes to the South Pole and returns with the ice for Fatty.

Next, in It's a Dad's Life, When Minnie's Dad comes home, Minnie plans to rebegin her unhappy dad's life.

Afterwards is a little musical interlude: The Beano Rap.

Next, in Bag Those Pies, the three bears see Hank playing bagpipes, and so decide to nab them for themselves.

Then, a series of parody commercials are shown, including a "Beanotown Party CD" one.

Next, in Ivy the Terrible on Safari, Ivy frees her toys, which cause chaos.

Next, in Flutterfly, Gnasher and Gnipper play with a butterfly.

And last, in Dennis Meets His Match, Dennis and Gnasher are sitting outside their front door, moping because it's a nice spring day. Walter arrives in a happy mood and tells Dennis that nothing can upset him today. The Menaces try to prove him wrong by squirting him with the garden hose.

However, Walter just laughs annoyingly, simply saying that a mere sprinkling of light summer rain poured down. The Menaces try even harder to spoil his mood by making a loud din with their instruments. Walter just sings happily, and asks if he heard a pindrop somewhere.

The Menaces re-enter the garden shed as Walter says hello to everything he sees. Dennis is cheesed off even more by this and gets out his RC jet plane which drops eggs and flour onto Walter. Dennis expects Walter to bawl his eyes out by now, but as the flour disappears, Walter is still smiling, and proves himself right; Dennis cannot possibly hurt him today, because he's in love.

A young tomboy named Cynthia then arrives, pushing her doll's pram. Walter is holding a bouquet of daffodils as Cynthia stops by and reveals that she's been Beanotown Beauty Queen for three years running. Walter then coldly rejects Cynthia for her cuddly dolly she was pushing. Enraged, Cynthia stamps on Walter's foot, causing him to throw the dolly in the air. It lands in Cynthia's arms, and she uses it to whack Walter, launching him into the air. Dennis uses a trampoline as the final step in the plan to bounce Walter out of sight. He congratulates Cynthia over her 'brilliant' menacing work.

Meanwhile, Dennis' school teacher is admiring the prize marrow he grew in his garden, and hopes to win first prize in the local competition, when suddenly, Walter crash lands onto the marrow, squashing it! Teacher blows his top at Walter over the obliterated marrow and angrily fires him as Teacher's Pet. Upon being fired, Walter begins to cry.

Dennis and Cynthia begin celebrating Walter's defeat, when suddenly, Dennis endures his first on-screen kiss. He screams in horror (realizing he was being kissed), and Gnasher follows. They then stop the film and jump out of it so they can get to the projector and cut that scene out (Gnasher eats the tape) so it never happened. The Menaces then decided to run away, while Cynthia watches.

After the end credits, Dennis escapes the cinema and finds the two aliens inside their UFO. He bangs on the window, telling them to get him away from Cynthia. The aliens accept, and the UFO flies off into outer space as Cynthia begins crying. Dennis and Gnasher are proudly relieved to have escaped Cynthia, but are shocked in terror to find that a female alien is in love with Dennis and wants to kiss him. Dennis screams again.

The scene cuts to the cinema, where Olive is cleaning up after everyone has left. She breaks the fourth wall and tells the viewers to rewind the tape if they want to watch the video again whilst muttering to herself.

Episodes[]

Characters[]

Cast[]

Mark Pickard - Dennis the Menace^[1]
Jonathan Kydd - Gnasher, Gnipper, Walter the Softy (The Snowman Army, Dad commercial and Party Sounds from Beano Town commercial), Colonel, Park Keeper #1, Walter’s Teacher, Minnie's Dad, Park Keeper #2, Teacher, Headmaster, School Inspector, Horse Race Announcer, Doctor, Uncle Mike, Billy Whizz, Penguin, Pedestrian #3, Ivy’s Dad, Poolgoer #3, Park Keeper #3, Poolgoer #5, Police Officer #2, Ivy's Toys, Presenter
Enn Reitel - Rasher, Walter the Softy (Flutterby and Dennis Meets His Match), Alien #1, Birds, Cats, Female Alien, Fatty Fudge, Danny (singing), 'Erbert, Fatty, Spotty, Wilfrid, Janitor, Winston, Elephant, Woodworm, Hairdresser, Mr Robot, Ted, Snake, Chicken, Chick, Ma’s Porridge Narrator, Monkey, Pedestrian #1, Pedestrian #2, Poolgoer #1, Poolgoer #4, Child, Ivy's Toys
Susan Sheridan - Dennis’ Mum, Walter's Mum, Cynthia, Newsreader, Mrs Ramsbottom, Baby #1, Mrs Blenkinsop, Danny, Sidney, Smiffy, Toots, Olive, Toots’ Mum, Baby #2, Ma, Pedestrian #4, Poolgoer #2
Gary Martin - Plug, Alien #2, Gnosher Narrator, Minnie’s Dad’s Boss, Plumber, Police Officer #1, Pa, Hank, Party Sounds from Beano Town Narrator
Nicola Stapleton - Minnie the Minx
Kate Robbins - Nurse
Alex Patterson - Ivy the Terrible
Jill Shilling - Opera Singer in Bath

Songs sung by Enn Reitel, Jonathan Kydd and Susan Sheridan.

Goofs[]

Roger the Dodger appears on the cover of the original VHS release. However, he does not appear or is mentioned.

Trivia[]

It was revealed that Dennis really hates being kissed.
Nicola Stapleton had just left EastEnders the same year this video was released, so Minnie was one of her first pre EastEnders roles.