Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem his few speaking appearances was in the Shirley Bassey episode where he sang a line of "Barnyard Boogie." He was mainly created so that Whitmire could have a character to perform in the band. His lack of character development was apparently due to Whitmire's uncertainty about performing Lips. He was less experienced as a puppeteer at the time and wanted to use a voice like Louis Armstrong but was afraid of offending African Americans. After "The Muppet Christmas Carol", he wasn't seen at all until the NBC special "Christmas in Rockefeller Center". He also appeared in the movie "The Muppets".
TV Mayhem GMTV on 16 October. Neither "Hey Hey It's Saturday" nor "TV Mayhem" ever enjoyed the success of the "Wide Awake Club" or "WAC '90". After "TV Mayhem" got axed, TV-am replaced it with a new Saturday morning block programme for children called "Cartoon World", which as the name suggests, only showed cartoons. This ran from November 1991 to TV-am's demise in December 1992. TV Mayhem TV Mayhem was a British children's short-lived Saturday morning television series that was originally a replacement for "Hey Hey It's Saturday" after it was cancelled and aired from September 1991 for just six weeks on