Sad news for Arch -RIP Bagpuss

[Noodley]

Did he not get a bit lazy in later life? I mean what has he done recently...

 

[punkypossum]

I only got converted to bagpuss in my twenties when I was at Uni...no bagpuss in Germany, we so missed out . My friend got me all the episodes on video a few years ago, might have to sit down and watch a few now!!!

 

[Arch]

My favourite is that bagpipe who's lost his pipes.

And of course the moment when charley mouse exclaims 'IT IS A PRIMA, BALLERINA!'.

I loved those mice, I longed to have a mouse like that, which came to life and sang and stuff.

One of the best bits for me, is the Mouse Mill - not so much the story of it all, but the way the mice tell everyone thay can make chocolate bisciuts out of breadcrumbs and butterbeans and go through this elaborate rigmarole ("More breadcrumbs, more butterbeans!") and when it's revealed as a trick, they say, "but of course, no one could really do that, that would be stupid...." The mice were just that little bit anarchic - there was the time they went on strike because Yaffle told them they couldn't sing any more. Oliver Postgate put a few grown up messages into his work - if you look at the Clangers episode where an astronaut arrives, the flag he plants is an amalgam of the US and Russian flags. And Noggin and the Firecake was inspired by the perils of nuclear war....

A great man. His autobiography is worth a read.

Goo you have a good point. Last night on the radio, the newsreader was talking to Floella Benjemin about the state of modern kids TV, and said something about how budgets for kids tv are getting smaller and smaller. Yet I and others my age were raised on the most basic, cheap programmes - Postgate's stuff, Play School and Playaway etc - very few gimmicks, but probably the best kids tv ever....

 

[punkypossum]

Heeeeeeave!!!