Whenever I cover cartoons from my home nation, I only seem to comment on the lousy ones but today's vault entry is special, this cartoon, next to Wallace & Gromit is our finest cartoon ever created, presenting from 1990 the Dreamstone.

The Land of Dreams is separated by a light & dark side, on the light side we have Noops, no not "Noobs" Noops which can be best described as a cross between a troll & a dog, who live and work in the Dreamworld not much different to humans while the Wuts who just look like alien dogs defend the land from the darker side of the realm known as the Land of Nightmares from a population known as Urpneys which resembles the traditional troll but with large noses and large colored spots; they are led by Zordrak, a truly terrifying looking beast, that resembles a traditional evil dragon with the voice to match; he was once a Dream Maker but kept creating nightmares which eventually made him into his current monstrous form. Zordrak wants the Dreamstone, a special gem that creates all the dreams in the dream world; in charge of this beautiful gem is the merlin-esque head of the council the Dream Maker who also has a pet literal dogfish named Albert. That pretty much sums up the setting and basic plot, now for the story itself.
The main character is a Noop named Rufus who does nothing but daydream, some of his dreams need to be seen to be believed as they have some beautiful scenery and great orchestra music from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Sadly for Rufus his daydreaming costs him his job, however his friend Amberley suggests that he works for the Dream Maker, seeing as his daydreaming makes him the most qualified. He gets the job despite a few mishaps but inevitably gets involved in Dream Maker's battle against Zordrak.
Dreamstone follows a simple formula of plot of the week, where the enemy always tries a different method every week to attempt the same task, tried and tested, nothing special but what makes Dreamstone special is a combination of beautiful vivid scenery, incredibly well done music soundtrack and a truly terrifying looking villain. Going back to the soundtrack, it really had some care and attention put into it, as a CD track costs around £70 which is about $107 on the current exchange rate, it even has a celebrity backed track called the "War Song of the Urpneys" sang by British Rock God Ozzy Osbourne, Former Heavy Weight Boxer Frank Bruno & Scottish Comedian Billy Connelly; even the main theme "Better than a Dream" was re-released by Katie Melua just last year.
Dreamstone is proof that Britain can make cartoons, I just wish they did it more often.