| Genre: | Comedy Entertainment |
| Company: | BBC Worldwide (production) BBC Earth (natural history footage) |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 13 |
| Executive Producer: | Caroline Wright |
| Producer: | Mark Lucey |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Network: | BBC One |
Walk on the Wild Side is a 2009 British comedy sketch show shown on BBC One. It involves the overdubbing of voiceovers to natural history footage, to give the appearance of the animals doing the talking. Celebrity guest voices are also included in each episode, with the exception of the pilot episode.
A second series began airing on BBC One on 18 September 2010.[1]
| Voiceover | Series | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 1 | 2009 | ||
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| Harriet Carmichael | 1–2 | 2009–2010 | |
| 1–2 | 2009–2010 | ||
| 2 | 2010 |
Manford, Edge, Richardson, Webster, and Suttie all write the series as well as providing voiceovers. Alex Horne, Alistair Griggs and Ian Manford write the series with them.
| Featured animals | Guest Voiceover(s) | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | Field mouse, marmot, shark, dolphin, crocodile, frilled lizard, gibbon, badger, flamingo, chameleon, vulture, penguin, panda, giant tortoise, polar bear, seal, tiger, giraffe, zebra, meerkat. | None | 28 March 2009 | |
| 1 | 15 August 2009 | |||
| 2 | Koala, chameleon, marine iguana, anteater, giraffe, bat, ostrich, marmot, gorilla, badger, meerkat, camel, shoebill, shark, caterpillar, sage grouse. | 22 August 2009 | ||
| 3 | Porpoise, white mouse, spoonbill, black heron, iguana, meerkat, walrus, penguin, giant tortoise, badger, rabbit, crab, frog, seal, shoebill, skunk. | 29 August 2009 | ||
| 4 | 5 September 2009 | |||
| 5 | Lion, cheetah, shark, penguin, rhinoceros, emperor tamarin, antelope, flamingo, swan, tiger, capybara, owl, giant tortoise, puffin, giraffe, ant, vulture, mandrill. | 12 September 2009 | ||
| 6 | Sea eagle, fox, shark, polar bear, lion, leopard, tiger, peacock, starfish, puffin, iguana, wolf, crab, meerkat, shoebill, deer, lizard, sea otter, mandrill, barn owl, penguin, seal, camel, frog, red-capped manakin. | 19 September 2009 |
| Synopsis | Guest Voiceover(s) | Original airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tensions run high in the natural world as a young lion cub called Malcolm is lost at Giraffestonbury. | 18 September 2010 | ||
| 2 | A vulture tries out a saucy joke; two Geordie chimps have a close encounter with aliens; An evil cloned giraffe threatens to "kiss your mum". | 25 September 2010 | ||
| 3 | 2 October 2010 | |||
| 4 | 16 October 2010 | |||
| 5 | Chester MacArthur's Guide To Wood-whittling; Finbar Finnegan's Fancy Feet; a hyena police chase | 23 October 2010 | ||
| 6 | A chimp who can't remember if he left the front door unlocked; opera-singing storks; squirrel Henry Edwardson's memoirs of being a jobbing actor | 30 October 2010 | ||
| 7 | Midsafari Murders | John Humphrys | 6 November 2010 |
The show often uses music for comic effect, and it has used a range of contemporary music as well as popular music from the past. Artists featured include: Toto, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Marvin Gaye, The Pussycat Dolls, Barry White, Shaggy, Lulu, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Tinie Tempah, Bon Jovi, Radiohead and Adam and The Ants.[2]