[1969] Clangers - Stop-motion series about a race of shrew-like creatures who live on a small moon-like planet who speak only in a whistled language.

"The Visitor", the Clangers find a television set.

Created and narrated by Oliver Postgate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcAoGTaEEA

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[1961] Pingwings - Animated black-and-white children's series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. It starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived at the back of a barn on the fictional Berrydown Farm. The Pingwing characters were knitted by Firmin's wife Joan.

First episode: The Happy Event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JE3_jxJDAE

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[1959] Noggin the Nog - "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 North Lands sit by their great log fires, and they tell a tale..."

E04: The Island. Created by Oliver Postgate (who also narrates) and Peter Firmin.

https://youtu.be/aoJOnNvWCvg?t=20

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[2005] Ivor the Engine and the Story of Smallfilms - Shown to mark Ivor the Engine's appearance on BBC2 Wales, this programme gives a unique insight into the world of one of the true pioneers of children's television, who also created the Clangers and Bagpuss. With Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-aHeAEdzk

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[1986] Pinny’s House - The last production by duo Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. The series follows the adventures of Pinny, a small wooden doll that lives in a doll-house on a shelf. A model ship sits next to the house which contains Pinny’s sailor friend Victor.

https://youtu.be/USDhKCsxxII

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[1984] Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House - Stop motion animated series directed and narrated by Oliver Postgate. It is based on Rumer Godden's The Dolls' House, originally published in 1947, and focuses on the toys in a Victorian dolls' house belonging to sisters Emily and Charlotte Dane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8f2Le2B3ok

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[1999] This Morning - Caron Keating and Ross Kelly chat to Oliver Postgate. Oliver brings many original models to the studio including the original Bagpuss, Gabriel and Madelaine, Professor Yaffle and mice, plus Clangers and froglets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIAC5pp55E

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[1961] Pingwings - Animated black-and-white children's series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. It starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived at the back of a barn on the fictional Berrydown Farm. The Pingwing characters were knitted by Firmin's wife Joan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Apja9Dbqkg

#OldBritishTelly #Pingwings #OliverPostgate #PeterFirmin

[1965] The Pogles - Animated children’s series produced by Smallfilms (a partnership between Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin). The 32 episodes were filmed using stop-frame animation, in Peter Firmin’s barn, and were narrated by Oliver Postgate. This episode is “King Of The Fairies”.

https://youtu.be/mjn5P9nKFes

#OldBritishTelly #Pogles #OliverPostgate #PeterFirmin

[1959] The Saga of Noggin the Nog - Noggin is a simple, kind and unassuming King of the Northmen in a roughly Viking-age setting, with various fantastic elements such as dragons, flying machines and talking birds. Created by Oliver Postgate (who also narrates) and Peter Firmin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NrKbDul6U

#OldBritishTelly #OliverPostgate #PeterFirmin #Noggin

[1970] Clangers - Stop-motion series about a race of shrew-like creatures who live on a small moon-like planet who speak only in a whistled language. In this episode Tiny Clanger finds a bag of golden coins while fishing in space. Created and narrated by Oliver Postgate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slzv5IJiXaw

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[1972] Clangers - Final episode of the series about the flutey-voiced family of woollen, knitted aliens living below the surface of a knobbly little planet far out in space. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin who was its modelmaker and illustrator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXozij1F6CA

#OldBritishTelly #Clangers #OliverPostgate #PeterFirmin