Author Topic: Bagpuss (Read 11044 times)

pcolbeck · « **Reply #25 on:** 20 September, 2013, 03:03:47 pm »

Pogle's Wood is one of my treasured childhood memories. I think I loved everything Oliver Postgate ever did.

Vince · « **Reply #26 on:** 20 September, 2013, 03:16:59 pm »

Clarion, fair point, well made. In my defence I was only four at the time and watching on a grainy 405 line TV.

clarion · « **Reply #27 on:** 20 September, 2013, 03:48:38 pm »

No excuses accepted.

Woofage · « **Reply #28 on:** 20 September, 2013, 03:55:01 pm »

I don't recall ever seeing The Pogles or Pogles' Wood, but The Clangers was my favourite prog as a small child.

clarion · « **Reply #29 on:** 20 September, 2013, 04:05:52 pm »

Bet you don't remember Pingwings, either, which was the Smallfilms production before Pogles.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #30 on:** 20 September, 2013, 04:35:11 pm »

Quote from: Woofage on 20 September, 2013, 03:55:01 pm

I don't recall ever seeing The Pogles or Pogles' Wood, but The Clangers was my favourite prog as a small child.

Ditto. 100%.

Biggsy · « **Reply #31 on:** 20 September, 2013, 06:17:47 pm »

I liked the Clangers as a big child. No, I wasn't on drugs; and neither were the makers, really. As on adult on prescription drugs, I like In the Night Garden.

Clare · « **Reply #32 on:** 20 September, 2013, 06:50:03 pm »

Does anybody else remember Romper Room?

As a pre-schooler it was brilliant, thinking back now it was crap.

nicknack · « **Reply #33 on:** 20 September, 2013, 07:13:28 pm »

Never saw Bagpuss or Pogle's Wood. I may be too old. Noggin the Nog was my era.

clarion · « **Reply #34 on:** 20 September, 2013, 07:24:30 pm »

Pogle predated Noggin. Bagpuss was slightly later.

nicknack · « **Reply #35 on:** 20 September, 2013, 07:49:43 pm »

Um, not according to my memory or Wikithing.

Noggin the Nog (1959-1965 remade in colour in 1970 and 1982 also for the BBC)
Pogles' Wood (1966–67)

L CC · « **Reply #36 on:** 20 September, 2013, 08:01:34 pm »

I found Bagpuss a bit, erm, dull tbh.

Ivor the Engine.

There's DRAGONS.
Really I'm a Camberwick Green kinda gal, though.

clarion · « **Reply #37 on:** 20 September, 2013, 08:30:56 pm »

You're right, of course, Nicknack. I'd forgotten the original Noggin.

Arch · « **Reply #38 on:** 20 September, 2013, 09:09:10 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 20 September, 2013, 12:01:06 am

Quote from: Clare on 19 September, 2013, 10:54:33 pm
Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?

Binglety, banglety, bonglety, bumpety, down the apples and pears!

I had a CD of Bagpuss songs. If you listen carefully in that song (on that very line I think) you can hear all the singers giggling a little bit as they sing.

Arch · « **Reply #39 on:** 20 September, 2013, 09:15:19 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 20 September, 2013, 11:20:47 am

Quote from: Arch on 19 September, 2013, 09:12:01 pm
Bagpuss was probably my favourite TV show as a kid.

Doesn't surprise me at all. What about Wombles?

Btw, EG, I'm dead inside and shouldn't be trusted. I think Professor Yaffle gets too much of a hard time from the knownowts.

The Wombles were alright, but not a favourite of mine as a kid. Smallfilms ruled, followed by Trumptonshire.

I was lucky enough to go to a screening of Noggin at City Screen, with live appearance by Peter Firmin. Oliver Postgate should have been there but was unwell. Still, I got to meet a real Clanger, and the lady who knitted them (Mrs Firmin), and thank Peter Firmin for my childhood.

BTW, Yaffle was apparently based on Bertrand Russell, who was a friend of the Postgate family.

citoyen · « **Reply #40 on:** 20 September, 2013, 09:18:21 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 20 September, 2013, 09:09:10 pm

I had a CD of Bagpuss songs. If you listen carefully in that song (on that very line I think) you can hear all the singers giggling a little bit as they sing.

I bet! It always makes me smile.

My dad used to vaguely know Madeleine and Gabriel IRL. They're like proper serious folk musicians and everything.

Thor · « **Reply #41 on:** 20 September, 2013, 10:27:22 pm »

Quote from: Clare on 20 September, 2013, 06:50:03 pm

Does anybody else remember Romper Room?

As a pre-schooler it was brilliant, thinking back now it was crap.

I remember the Northern Ireland version but, apparently, there were others.

Anyway, The Herbs was the best kids TV programme

Tewdric · « **Reply #42 on:** 20 September, 2013, 11:48:28 pm »

I raise you Trumpton. And Dangermouse.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 September, 2013, 09:22:57 am »

I went to a Fringe event a few years ago which was Phil Jupitus in conversation with Brian Cant, talking about Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green, showing clips, and it finished with a whole episode chosen at random. When the opening credits of "this is a box, a musical box..." started, the whole audience did a sort of "ohhhhhhhhhhh" and I'm absolutely certain I wasn't the only one a bit damp around the eyes.

We watched an episode of Camberwick Green in which PC McGarry questioned Windy Miller about boys fishing without a permit, but Windy refused to grass them up, then he drank a lot of strong cider and fell asleep. Meanwhile, PC McGarry went off to question Mr Crockett the garage man, refuelled his police motorbike and then went off without paying. It's quite subversive really.

sg37409 · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 September, 2013, 09:25:59 am »

number 452

Vince · « **Reply #45 on:** 21 September, 2013, 10:36:52 am »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wf17YKJZv3w&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/wf17YKJZv3w&rel=1</a>

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #46 on:** 21 September, 2013, 11:24:02 am »

Roobarb and Custard. That was a bit surreal.

Butterfly · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 September, 2013, 11:19:37 pm »

The best song in Bagpuss is 'The Bony King of Nowhere', where they don't say bum.

TimO · « **Reply #48 on:** 23 September, 2013, 12:55:20 am »

You haven't lived until you've watched Mr Benn, on an oscilloscope, in reverse video green and black, without the audio (we didn't have an easy way to extract the audio sub-carrier and demodulate it), so an entire lab full of people doing the words, because we all knew them so well.

Arch · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 September, 2013, 10:14:39 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 22 September, 2013, 11:19:37 pm

The best song in Bagpuss is 'The Bony King of Nowhere', where they don't say bum.

I love that too!

Also, the bit where Yaffle tells the mice to just get on, and not sing, and a mouse replies, "Mice like to sing. Mice not sing, mice not work. Mice Strike!"

And when they push Charlie Mouse into the Ship in a Bottle, and Madeleine cries out about how they're hurting him, so they pull him out again, with a popping cork noise..

Actually. Just all of it.