• Footrot Flats, a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball, ran from 1976 to 1994 in newspapers (unpublished strips continued to appear in book...
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  • Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (stylised as Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale) is a 1986 New Zealand animated musical comedy film based on cartoonist Murray...
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    Footrot Flats Fun Park was a theme park on Te Atatū Peninsula, West Auckland, New Zealand. Opening in 1982 as Leisureland, the park rebranded to be themed...
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  • Barbarian, All the King's Comrades (also in Punch) and the long-running Footrot Flats comic series. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours...
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  • Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale is the soundtrack to the New Zealand animated film, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale. In February 1987, the album spent...
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  • released in 1986 on the soundtrack of the animated motion picture, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale. The single reached No. 1 on the New Zealand Singles...
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    strip 'Footrot Flats' and the movie Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale. Lives with his owner Wal Footrot on a sheep and cattle farm called Footrot Flats. His...
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    career, by writing the soundtrack music for the animated feature film Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale in 1986. The film yielded two hit singles: "You Oughta...
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  • from Half-Life 2 Wallace Fennel, from Veronica Mars Wallace Footrot, from Footrot Flats Wallace West (character), from DC Comics Eli Wallace, from Stargate...
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  • feature films, most notably as the voice actor for the titular Dog in Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale. His voice acting credentials also include work on the...
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    After plans for this were abandoned, the land was redeveloped into Footrot Flats Fun Park, an amusement park which operated in the 1980s. During the...
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    made one of the minor characters of his iconic New Zealand comic strip Footrot Flats, Cousin Kathy, a frequent practitioner. A 2008 poll by Research New...
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  • Millman Socrates "Cooch" Windgrass, a character in the comic strip Footrot Flats Socrates Drank the Conium (sometimes abbreviated to "Socrates"), a Greek...
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  • Amusement Park, Hastings – the site is now occupied by Splash Planet Footrot Flats Fun Park, Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland, originally known as Leisureland...
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    imitating the sound of the bird – and the popular New Zealand comic Footrot Flats features a magpie character by the name of Pew. Other magpies depicted...
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  • Grey Ghost of the forest, an alias of Dog from New Zealand comic strip Footrot Flats Grey Ghost, a fictional character in the Speed Racer film adaptation...
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  • stories from the 1930s to 1960s Janice "Pongo" Footrot, comics character from Murray Ball's strip Footrot Flats (1975–1994) Pongo the Pirate, puppet character...
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  • mini-series Anzacs and provided the voice of Wal Footrot in the feature-length animated film, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986), based on the comic strips...
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  • Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale. The single charted at No. 2 in New Zealand. Dobbyn was asked to write a tune for the relationship between Footrot...
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  • television cartoon characters The main character in the comic strip Footrot Flats A minor character in the television show Red Dwarf Dog (Half-Life 2)...
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  • FoxTrot George Baker, Sad Sack Tom Batiuk, Funky Winkerbean Murray Ball, Footrot Flats Darrin Bell, Candorville, Rudy Park Stephen Bentley, "Herb and Jamaal"...
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  • Horse, the main character of Centaurworld Horse, a main character of Footrot Flats "Horses", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo The Horse (poem)...
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  • book Oliver Twist by English author Charles Dickens. Dog Border Collie Footrot Flats In the comic strip and animated movie; about a dog who thinks he's intelligent...
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  • (1964) Footprints: 2011 & 2015 Footprints on the Moon: (1969 & 1975) Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986) Footskating 101 (2007) Footsteps (2003 TV) Footsteps...
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    Brahms. He had a strong personal respect for Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats; the two men influenced each other throughout their careers. According...
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  • with this. Bluey creator Joe Brumm cites Dog from New Zealand comic Footrot Flats, also a Border Collie, as an inspiration for Mackenzie's design. Rusty...
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  • the Whale (animated) El Amor brujo The Elm-Chanted Forest (animated) Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (animated) The Frog Prince Labyrinth Little Shop of...
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    dogs of the movie, Babe. The Dog, the Border Collie of the comic strip Footrot Flats. Colleen, a female collie in Road Rovers. Nana, a female Border Collie...
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    and chips, rugby boots and ball, and a black singlet and gumboots. Footrot Flats — a popular comic strip by Murray Ball. Goodnight Kiwi — animated short...
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    graduating in 1983, she went on a six month national tour, singing in Footrot Flats. She made her screen debut in 1986 on the long-running Australian soap...
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