Danger Mouse: classic cartoon returns with slick new reboot

Bond parody comeback is 'a snappy triumph', but will it prove more popular with parents than kids?

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Classic 1980s cartoon Danger Mouse has returned to UK TV screens, but will the plucky rodent spy win over a new generation of digitally savvy kids or is it a nostalgia show for their parents' generation?

Thames TV's Danger Mouse was a staple of children's television throughout most of the 1980s and into the 1990s, running for 161 episodes. Written as a Bond-like parody it featured a charming secret agent mouse with an eye-patch (voiced by David Jason) and his bespectacled hamster sidekick Penfold (Terry Scott). Together they solved mysteries and saved the world from dastardly villains such as Duckula.

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