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This section feels like it's been written by someone who's only intent is to diminish danger mouse. I feel the person either doesn't like the cartoon or wasn't even alive at the time. For example, what has the all time popularity of characters on Channel 4 have to do with how popular danger mouse was at the time of it's showing? Absolutely none that's what, the Simpsons also used in this section to imply danger mouse wasn't that popular wasn't even airing at the time the original danger mouse series was, so mentioning the simpsons is irrelevant to any context. Now I don't know the actual figures of the shows popularity in terms of how many viewers it had, but I see absolutely no relevance or need to the "debunking" of the 21 million figure here, just state what the believed figures were in an objective assessment, rather than what appears to be a somewhat hate filled anti danger mouse section filled with strawman irrelevances. 94.175.102.211 (talk) 10:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BAFTA awards count

In 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987, did the series really get nominated for both Short Animation (film) and Short Animation (television) BAFTA awards? Or is that just an artefact of the way that the BAFTA website seems to duplicate the same nominees across film and TV?

For example, if you look on their website at the 1986 film awards, under Short Animation, you see these four nominees:

Alias the Jester, Dangermouse [sic], Superted, and The Wind in the Willows: Winter Sports

Then if you look on their website at the 1986 television awards, under Short Animation, it shows the same four nominees:

Alias the Jester, Dangermouse [sic], Superted, and The Wind in the Willows: Winter Sports

As another example of this, both the film awards for the 1990 ceremony and the the TV awards for the 1990 ceremony both list a Short Animation category, each of which has the same four nominees: A Grand Day Out, Creature Comforts, Egoli, and War Story. But we don't use that to claim that A Grand Day Out won two BAFTAs. Nick R^Talk 00:36, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]