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Bagpuss
1974 · TV series · 15 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin
Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms. The title character was, "An old, saggy, cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams." Although only 13 episodes of the show were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was regularly repeated in the UK for thirteen years. In 1999 Bagpuss topped a BBC poll for the UK's favourite children's TV programme.
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There's a live action Bagpuss film due: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrjwlvxknko
I understand that Professor Yaffle -- the woodpecker bookend in the classic kids' TV show Bagpuss -- was loosely based on Russell.
Its hard to explain, but minecraft is more like an oliver postgate program like Bagpuss or the Clangers compared to one of the newer kids animated TV shows were stuff is exploding all the time.
Nobody saw the episode of Bagpuss [1] where the mice just role out a cookie, and then take round the back of the "factory" and deliver it again? Apparently we've been waiting 46 years for this particular innovation to have a real world opportunity!
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771367/
Bagpuss really is genius. Probably the finest children's TV show ever made in Britain. Certainly in a different league to the rest of this list!