Dizzy Heights (TV series)

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| genre = Children's television

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| director = Claire Winyard

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| starring = Alan Heap
Mick Wall

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_seasons = 3

| num_episodes = 27

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| producer = Martin Fisher
Martin Hughes

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| network = BBC

| first_aired = {{start date|1990|2|15|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1993|9|23|df=y}}

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Dizzy Heights is a BBC television series about a disastrous partnership of two managers trying to run a seaside hotel. 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 style family of puppets called the Gristles who lived, and caused chaos, in the hotel.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dizzyheights_1299000920.shtml |title=BBC – Comedy Guide – Dizzy Heights |accessdate=2013-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027034510/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dizzyheights_1299000920.shtml |archivedate=27 October 2004 }} The show ran for three years, from 1990 to 1993 and was shown on BBC1 as part of Children's BBC.

The Gristle family appeared in a series of their own called The House of Gristle in 1994.

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