Tom Noddy ( who featured in the second episode of Marcus du Sautoy's The Code ) gave the analogy of looking at a contour map of the bubbles ' surface.

* Tom Noddy

* Noddy ( 1975 – 1982 )

For example, in the first Noddy book, Noddy and Big Ears are building Noddy's house for one.

* Mrs Tubby Bear, Noddy's next door neighbour, it is clear that she, like Mr Tubby Bear are the superiors of Noddy, as if they are adults and he is a child, mainly because Noddy always refers to them as " Mr and Mrs Tubby Bear ".

They also introduced Noddy's new friend Whizz from Robot Village, who presses a button on his chest to play recordings of native speakers saying the new foreign words Noddy was to learn.

IDWs Transformers licensed comic books introduced the character of " Tappet " a robot who is based on Noddy visually and clearly transforms into Noddy's classic car.

Noddy's car ( 801 ) featured figures from the Enid Blyton children's novels of ' Noddy ', ' Big-Ears ' and ' Golly ' sitting in the rumble seat.

Her voice acting roles include Noddy in the Cosgrove Hall / BBC Television series Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Trillian in the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Princess Eilonwy in the animated film The Black Cauldron.

# Noddy and the Magic Rubber ( 1954 )

* Noddy: the Magic of Toytown ( America only ) ( 1997 )

For 1998-2001 videos, they each contain clips from Hooley Dooleys ( The Characters sing the intro song ), Blinky Bill ( Blinky introduces his name ), Bananas in Pyjamas ( B1 and B2 say " Trust us, we're Bananas " to Rat in a Hat ), Arthur ( Arthur practices spelling Aardvark in his treehouse in Arthur's Spelling Trouble ), Noddy ( Noddy is declared champion of the Sports games by Mr. Plod ), Johnson and Friends ( The Toys need to trick Alfred, Alfred overs hears and wonders if they're talking abut him and McDuff says No ), Magic Mountain ( Dragon blows his magic smoke making Lion's body disappear ), Sesame Street ( Elmo sings and does Happy Tapping with Elmo ), Postman Pat ( Pat had fallen into a pile of straw and he gives Alf his catalogue ), Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ( Thomas tells Percy about the joys of receiving letters from children in Thomas and the Special Letter ), Spot the Dog ( Spot thinks that the ball is his favourite toy ), The Wiggles ( The Characters sing Get Ready To Wiggle near the end of the wiggly concert in Wiggle Dance ) and Rhythm Heaven Fever ( Some of the Screwbots raise their hands in Screwbot Factory ).

Noddy is a character created by English children's author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and 1963.

Large nesting colonies of Brown Noddies ( Anous stolidous ), Bridled terns ( Sterna anaethetus ), the Lesser Noddy ( Anous tenuirostris ), Red-footed Booby ( Sula sula ) and Lesser Frigate Birds ( Fregata ariel ), exist on Diego Garcia.

One of Blyton's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers.

Chorion Limited of London now owns and handles the intellectual properties and character brands of Blyton's Noddy and the well known series the Famous Five.

A 1958 article in Encounter by Colin Welch, directed against the Noddy character, was reprinted in a New Zealand librarians ' periodical.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

" The Behavior of Noddy and Sooty Terns.

Briers was the original narrator and voice actor for the Enid Blyton series Noddy.

Since then comedian Jasper Carrott, glam rocker Noddy Holder, motor racing commentator Murray Walker, the cast and crew of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, long serving Archers cast member Norman Painting and founding member of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi have all been honoured on the street with a star.

They were the first act to have three singles enter at number one, and all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea.

Slade come from the Black Country area of the West Midlands: both the drummer Don Powell, and bass guitarist Jim Lea were born and raised in Wolverhampton, lead vocalist Noddy Holder was born and raised in the nearby town of Walsall, and lead guitarist Dave Hill was born in Devon and moved to Wolverhampton while a child.

At the time, Noddy Holder was playing guitar and contributing to vocals in Steve Brett & The Mavericks.

Noddy Holder ( right ) and Dave Hill ( left ), near the height of their fame in 1973, showing some of their more extreme glam rock fashions.

Noddy Holder has cited the single as his favourite Slade song.

In August 1978, Noddy Holder was involved in a brawl with a bouncer backstage at a club in Porthcawl, South Wales.

A couple of years later I was at CBGB's doing my best Noddy Holder.

Ozzy Osbourne commented during a Slade documentary, " Noddy Holder's got one of greatest voices in rock ever.

Individual members were also acknowledged ; Noddy Holder was number five in the best British male singers whilst Jim Lea made number nine in the top songwriter list.

In February 1976, Record Mirror magazine voted Slade the third best UK group with Noddy Holder number eighth in the best male singer and number six in the best songwriter categories.

" In 1977, Dickinson met Paul " Noddy " White, a multi-instrumentalist who owned a PA and other equipment, with whom Dickinson, along with drummer Steve Jones, would form a band together called Speed.

Powell struck up friendships with fellow musicians like Robert Plant and John Bonham ( both at the time unknowns in Listen ), future Slade vocalist Noddy Holder, bassist Dave Pegg and a young guitarist called Tony Iommi.

“ Ballet, Farmyard, Circus, Hospital, and much later on Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy, and My Little Pony were released to inspirechild ’ s picture-making ” abilities.

Noddy is a little wooden boy who lives in his own little House-for-One in Toyland.

He was made by a woodcarver in a toy store but ran away after the man began to make a wooden lion, which scared Noddy.

Big Ears decides that Noddy is a toy and takes him to live in Toyland.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

* 1982 – Tom Mison, English actor

In a 1982 judgment delivered under such a referral, Chief Justice Tom O ' Higgins bemoaned the crude strictures of the prescribed process ; especially the fact that, if the court finds that a bill does not violate the Constitution, this judgment can never subsequently be challenged.

** Tom Tully, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* August 28 – Tom Baker, American actor ( d. 1982 )

Many of his stories have been re-released in posthumous volumes ( Best of Beaumont ( Bantam, 1982 ) and The Howling Man ( Tom Doherty, 1992 )), and a set of previously unpublished tales, A Touch of the Creature ( Subterranean Press, 1999 ), is now available.

Such disparate writers as Joyce Carol Oates with Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly ( 1994 ), Louis Auchincloss with The Ambassadress ( 1950 ), Tom Stoppard with The Real Thing ( 1982 ), and Alan Hollinghurst with The Line of Beauty ( 2004 ) were explicitly influenced by James's works.

He had four children: Sally ( who died in a car crash in 1982 ), Ben ( who later became a film and television director ), Joanna, and Tom.

The play was nominated for the 1982 Tony Award for Best Play, Best Actor in a Play ( Tom Courtenay ) and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play ( Paul Rogers ).

The 1982 television movie Rascals and Robbers: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn was also filmed here.

* Tom Pelphrey ( born 1982 ), one of the current stars of the daytime soap Guiding Light, as Jonathan Randall.

After The Rich Kids he formed The Spectres with Tom Robinson Band guitarist Danny Kustow, and subsequently Mick Hanson, and then Hot Club in 1982 with guitarist James Stevenson and singer Steve Allen.

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

Thomas John " Tom " Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940 ) is an American television journalist and author best known as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 )

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 )

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 )

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965-1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

* Tom and Jerry ( 1965 – 1972, 1975 – 1977, 1980 – 1982 ).

The original cast soundtrack was produced by Tom Chapin, and released in 1982 by Chapin Productions.

Inspired by the music of Black Sabbath, Venom, Raven, and Motörhead, guitarist / vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer ( a. k. a. " Tom Warrior "), bassist / vocalist Urs Sprenger ( a. k. a. " Steve Warrior ") and drummer Pete Stratton formed Hammerhead ( later Hellhammer ) in early 1982.

It was invented in 1982 by Tom Love and is manufactured by his company Airtight Inflatables in Ohiopyle, Pa. A Shredder is specifically designed to be paddled.