Postman Pat and the Ice Cream Machine

Episode Overview

Writer

Gillian Corderoy

Director

Chris Taylor

Producer

Chris Bowden

Release Details

Series

3

Series no.

3.03

Number

29

Released

9th September 2004

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Postman Pat and the Ice Cream Machine is the third episode of Postman Pat Season 3. It was written by Gillian Corderoy.

Plot[]

It is hot sunny day in Greendale and Ted Glen is making an ice cream machine for a picnic party at his workshop. Despite Ted's best efforts to get the machine working, it keeps failing. Meanwhile Julian, Meera and Bill are on a quest to collect more flavours for the ice cream and are also working on a secret new flavour for Jess.

Characters[]

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Cast[]

Ken Barrie as Pat, Ted, the Reverend Timms, P.C. Selby and Mr. Pringle
Melissa Sinden as Jess
Carole Boyd as Sara Clifton, Mrs. Goggins, Dorothy and Doctor Gilbertson
Janet James as Julian
Kulvinder Ghir as Bill and Ajay
Archie Panjabi as Nisha and Meera

Trivia[]

Outside Ted's Workshop are pieces of Gran's shed from "Gran" and Pat's garden shed in Postman Pat and the Big Surprise.
The chainsaw from Postman Pat's Windy Day, the clay tin from Postman Pat Misses the Show and the red oil can from "Bertha" can be seen in Ted's Workshop.
The original Woodland Animations PAT 1 model is used when Pat and Ted attempt to utilise the van’s engine to power the machine.

Goofs[]

At Thompson Ground, Meera's right eye brow is wonky.
The ice cream only splashes onto one side of P.C. Selby's helmet, but when he walks over to Pat and Ted, it is on both sides.
When Pat and Ted return to the workshop and look in on the ice cream machine, Ted has no eye brows. Ted's eye brows are also missing later on when he serves the sardine flavoured ice cream.
As Julian, Meera and Bill are heading for the workshop with the ice cream ingredients, they do not have the bananas, the chocolate and the walnuts with them.
When Julian, Meera and Bill are heading to the workshop, Julian is holding the basket of black currents, Meera has the cherries and Bill has the jar of sardines. However when they arrive at the workshop, Julian is holding the sardines, Meera has the black currents and Bill has the cherries.
On a hot day like this, the chocolate should have been kept in its wrapper until it was ready to be put into the ice cream machine.
When Julian, Meera and Bill arrive back at the workshop, they do not have the walnuts with them, but in the next shot Julian suddenly manages to bring them out from out of nowhere.
Julian, Meera and Bill decide to make banana and toffee flavoured ice cream first, but the toffee is nowhere to be seen.
In a close up shot of Katy and Tom tucking into their ice cream, their eye brows suddenly appear out of nowhere.
On BBC iPlayer, the subtitles misspell Meera’s name as ‘Mira’.