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Bagpuss was after my time. Pogles Wood is where it's at. (Also Smallfims)
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 a tale of Noggin the Nog.
Still gives me shivers.
Mooncat, choc-a-bloc, Button Moon and the Moomins (the proper one, none of that cartoon nonsense) make up some of my earliest and most treasured TV memories. My old Lab had a B'Puss toy from when he was a pup and it remained in pristine condition until he died. That dog had impeccable taste in toys 🙂
Oliver Postgate's voice comes on the telly and immediately I'm a kid again.
Happy days.
Derek Griffiths too, can't help smiling when he's on.
Made in the garage, weren't they? And the B&W photo is Peter Firmin's [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005nhdl ]daughter[/url] Emily I believe, outside their house. Classic children's TV and I made sure my children watched them too.
But Ivor the Engine was genius.
Clangers! When we were weaning my son the only thing that could get him to focus for long enough to get a decent feed inside him was Clangers, otherwise he got bored and then stroppy. Thank **** for Clangers. I could probably still recite it end-to-end with a bit of prompting, we wore out the Season 1 DVD completely...
A mate of mine interviewed Oliver Postgate once. He said it was like talking to God, because his voice had been such a distinctive and fundamental part of his early childhood.
Slightly mean looking version lives here...
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