Newport pub revealed as inspiration for 80s kids show

WELSH NEWS

A pub in Newport has been revealed as the inspiration for a popular 80s children’s show.

The Brewer’s Belch in Maindee was visited by the show’s producers three years before the show was made. 

Pupeteer Glen ‘Shady’ Whizzby told WalesOnCraic: 

“We’d been working on another show a few years prior to Terrahawks and we had to travel down to Newport to pick up a new passport because we were looking to sell the show to North Korea. 

“We ended up in this dodgy-looking pub in Maindee called The Brewer’s Belch. It was full of middle-aged woman and middle-aged men who were all way past their best but still looking to get it on. 

“I was approached by this woman called Glenda, who was the inspiration for Zelda. She looked liked she’d been out in the sun for far too long and her Rod Stewart hair looked like a wig. My mate nudged me to look around so we did - and started making some sketches. The rest, as they say, is history.” 

Set in the year 2020, the series follows the adventures of the Terrahawks, a taskforce responsible for protecting Earth from invasion by a group of extraterrestrial androids and aliens led by Zelda. 

It became essential viewing for kids across the UK who wanted to see what the inside of a Maindee pub looked like back in the 80s.