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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Many people in Torrance, California, were acquainted with a kind, gentle, 65-year-old Asian woman who regularly walked her dog in the neighborhood. They were shocked to learn that the woman — whose identity has not officially been released — had been attacked and killed on Christmas Eve, allegedly by a homeless man wielding a sledgehammer. […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas police chief says investigators hope surveillance video will lead to answers in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared before Christmas and her boyfriend, both of whom were found shot in the head in a car and may have been dead for days. Police on Friday had […]
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 […]
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