Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. This is the last in the series. ONLY 13 episodes were made, they each lasted less than a quarter of an hour and the main character was a saggy old cloth cat. Yet the 1974 series Bagpuss is lodged in the hearts of generations of […]
THE single joke which made our children laugh the most – and does to this day – was, I fear a little crude. It was based on the theme song of Parsley the lion in The Herbs, the original of which goes as follows: ‘I’m a very friendly lion called Parsley, I am always very glad to […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. AT the beginning of the 1980s, teacher John Cunliffe was working in Kendal, in the Lake District, and decided to write about a character who toured the area visiting his friends and helping them out of a jam. The result was the stop-motion […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. A BUNCH of woollen mouse-like creatures which communicate only in whistles would seem an unlikely subject for a classic children’s TV series. But thanks to the magic of Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin and Mrs Firmin’s knitting needles, the Smallfilms production Clangers was one of the […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. ‘IN the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell tales of a kind and wise […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. AS A very young child, I soon learned the differences between the days of the week. Monday was Picture Book. Tuesday Andy Pandy. And, best of all, Wednesday was Flower Pot Men. All were part of a charming sequence aimed at pre-schoolers and named Watch With Mother. […]
Over the Christmas break we are revisiting some vintage children’s TV programmes. PRODUCED and directed by the brilliant Gordon Murray, who would go on to give us the Trumptonshire Trilogy, Captain Pugwash was compulsory teatime viewing on the BBC between 1957 and 1966. It was introduced by a version of the Trumpet Hornpipe, performed by solo accordionist Tom Edmondson […]
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