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SuperTed and the Rattlesnake
In a large Eastern city in the United States, Texas Pete has the blues on being unable to beat SuperTed, so Bulk and Skeleton decide to cheer him up by stealing a rattlesnake from the city zoo...attracting attention to SuperTed and Spotty Man once more.
Writing:
- Mike Young
Release Date:
Tue, Oct 04, 1983
Country: GB
Language: Cy
Runtime: 10
Country: GB
Language: Cy
Runtime: 10
Victor Spinetti
Texas Pete
Roy Kinnear
Bulk
Melvyn Hayes
Skeleton
Sheila Steafel
Mother Nature/Blotch
Jon Pertwee
Spotty
Derek Griffiths
SuperTed
Peter Hawkins
Narrator
Season 3:
Mother Nature's place is invaded by Texas Pete, Bulk and Skeleton. Texas Pete plans to drink some of the potion that Mother Nature gave to SuperTed in order to gain super powers. But soon SuperTed and Spotty Man come to rescue as usual.
Texas Pete has hatched a plot to discover SuperTed's magic word. First, Bulk throws Skeleton off the Statue of Liberty where Skeleton his holding onto the sleeve of the statue. Secondly, once SuperTed and Spotty Man have gone to rescue him, Texas Pete hides small microphones in the treehouse. Thirdly, Texas Pete throws Skeleton into the sea, a hundred miles off the coast in be exact. Finally, once SuperTed gets the call for help, he'll say his magic word...and Bulk will be listening.
Bulk now wears the suit of SuperTed and is able to fly like a bear. Before long, SuperTed and Spotty Man discover this and try to catch him. However luckily...Bulk has forgotten the magic word...making Texas Pete cry after spending all the trouble of organising the plot.
SuperTed is called to the Pennines to rescue two lady geologists who are trapped in a cave, but soon finds himself in an awful dilemma when Spotty Man disappears and has to choose to save his friend or the geologists first.
A museum in the Middle East wishes to display the Cosmic Dust that Spotty Man uses, but SuperTed thinks it could be dangerous and his fears prove correct when Texas Pete and his cronies plan to steal the Cosmic Dust from the museum.
After rescuing a beached blue whale in Wales, SuperTed and Spotty Man aid the whale in saving its family from a whaling boat piloted by none other than Texas Pete.
Texas Pete, Bulk, and Skeleton capture a gorilla while in Africa, but when SuperTed and Spotty Man come to the rescue, Bulk unknowingly plays a part in helping the now captive gorilla.
At a seaside town in England, Texas Pete takes up a magician's act under the alias "Great Horrendo" to cheat children out of their allowances and briefly sidetrack Superted by making Spotty Man a volunteer in his hypnosis trick.
Spotty Man reluctantly agrees to take driving lessons from SuperTed. However, Skeleton and Bulk steal it to drive it to the bank where Texas Pete is, robbing it. Unknowingly to the three villains, the car is running out of brake fluid, causing the brakes to be out of work.
While SuperTed and Spotty Man relax in an island in the South Pacific, Texas Pete and his cronies steal SuperTed's spotted teddy bear and use it as part of a voodoo act to incapacitate SuperTed.
Texas Pete, Bulk, and Skeleton plan to rob a bank in Hong Kong, using Hong Kong's old secret passageways, but Bulk blows open the wall into a restaurant...where SuperTed and Spotty Man are having dinner.
In a large Eastern city in the United States, Texas Pete has the blues on being unable to beat SuperTed, so Bulk and Skeleton decide to cheer him up by stealing a rattlesnake from the city zoo...attracting attention to SuperTed and Spotty Man once more.
