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Well, you can't go wrong with Oliver Postgate, who I now notice made nearly half of the programs in my (completely randomly selected) list... Also I appear to
by david-given 10y ago
Well, you can't go wrong with Oliver Postgate, who I now notice made nearly half of the programs in my (completely randomly selected) list...
Also I appear to have remembered a fairly small selection of the 'children's television on drugs' genre. See also: Banamaman, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Roobarb and Custard, Captain Pugwash...
While talking about children's television: it's not British, and it's slightly later, but any person of any age who doesn't like Fraggle Rock has no soul.
- DanBC 10y agoI have no idea if it was British, but Ludwig (the cartoon about a musical mechanical egg) was great.
- stevekemp 10y agoYou've given me a nostalgia-trip. In return I give you: The Wombles!
- rahimnathwani 10y agoI used to think the theme tune went 'The wombles of Wimbledon: common are we' but actually it's 'The Wombles of _Wimbledon Common_ are we'. I had never heard of Wimbledon Common, although it's only 4 miles from where I was born.
- stevekemp 10y agoI find that strangely adorable, thanks for sharing.
- abritinthebay 10y agoFraggle Rock actually is British, kind of. It was co-produced by a British television company (TVS), and had specifically filmed inserts that replaced the Inventor with a Lighthouse owner (the sequences were arguably better too, certainly less rambling and more focused). But even if you ignore the inserts (others were filmed worldwide) it's still partially British
- petepete 10y agoCharlie Brooker's tribute to Oliver Postgate https://youtu.be/uAftt3UnzoI https://youtu.be/uAftt3UnzoI