Dizzy Heights was a BBC television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television...

 series about a disastrous partnership of two managers trying to run a seaside hotel

Hotel

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. The show was about Mr Heap (played by Alan Heap) and Mr Wall's (played by Mick Wall) many adventures and regularly featured a Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

 style family of puppets called the Gristles who lived, and caused chaos in, the hotel.

The show ran for three years, from 1990 to 1993 and was shown on BBC1 as part of Children's BBC

CBBC

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.

The Gristle family appeared in a series of their own called "The House Of Gristle

The House Of Gristle

The House of Gristle was a British children's comedy sketch series for Children's BBC which ran for nine weeks in the spring of 1994. This was the Gristle family that had previously appeared in Dizzy Heights...

" in 1994.

External links

• BBC Comedy guide