"Hartbeat Hartbeat was a Children's BBC television arts programme presented by Tony Hart. It was broadcast between 1984 and 1993. The series was a follow on from ""Take Hart"" and taught children how to design art features and use everyday items to make objects. Like its predecessor ""Take Hart"", ""Hartbeat"" featured Hart and the animated Plasticine character Morph and taught children how to design art features and use everyday items to make objects. The first episode was screened on 14 September 1984. Throughout its run it was shown during the afternoons with the first series on Fridays as a standalone"
"see this show back on terrestrial TV - it was entertaining and original."" On 2018, StudioCanal UK released Complete series of The Amazing Adventures of Morph onto a DVD Box Set. This is the first time all episodes have been released in English as an official & complete set. The Amazing Adventures of Morph The Amazing Adventures of Morph is a British stop-motion clay animation television show created by Aardman Animations which ran from 1980 to 1981. It featured the character Morph and his cream-coloured best friend Chas. The character of Morph first appeared on the children's art-themed TV show"
"British children's TV programme ""SMart"" from 1994 onwards. Morph's 30th birthday was celebrated in 2007 by creator Peter Lord and celebrity fan and comedian Phill Jupitus at events for the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol. In March 2009, shortly after Hart's death, a flashmob of Morph characters was organised in London outside the Tate Modern art gallery. In 2009, the BBC drama ""Ashes to Ashes"" featured Morph in a guest appearance as a representation of a present-day medic. On 29 October 2013, Peter Lord (co-founder of Aardman Animations) created a fund raising project on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The campaign"
"The Morph Files The Morph Files is a British children's stop-motion animated comedy television show featuring Morph (see Morph (franchise)). The series was narrated by Neil Morrissey and produced by Aardman Animations. The series is a mix of new animation and old footage from former shows, and features the same cast from ""The Amazing Adventures of Morph"" as well as footage from that show. It was originally aired on BBC in 1996 and was later aired on the ABC in Australia from 1 June 1998 to 13 June 2000. The show was being rerun on Gold (TV channel) and is"
"joined by cream-coloured Chas, who was much more badly behaved. Morph can change shape, he would become spheres in order to move around, or extrude into cylinders to pass to different levels. He can also mimic other objects, or creatures. Morph lived in a wooden microscope box on an artists desk, and he and Chas both loved to eat cake, as seen in many of the shorts. Some of the early plasticine models of Morph were destroyed in a fire at the warehouse where they were being stored, on 10 October 2005. Morph and Chas appeared in shorts on the"
"the character in the animated series, a new Morph character was featured in the ""Age of Apocalypse"" crossover event. The character underwent a drastic change in appearance for the comic. Several years later, Marvel introduced a new version of Morph from Earth-1081. He first appeared in Exiles #1 in August 2001. Kevin Sydney, known as ""Changeling"", originally worked for the villainous organization Factor Three. He acted as the Mutant Master's second-in-command in an effort to trigger World War III. After successfully capturing the heroic X-Men, the Mutant Master is exposed as an extraterrestrial and goes out of control. The mutants"
"of the character under the codename Morph reappeared in the comics as part of the Exiles in 2001. The first run of appearances occurred in 1967–1968 when he appeared in ""X-Men"" #37-42 as Changeling. Although dying at the end of this run he was thought to have been seen as a ghost in ""Excalibur: The Possession"" (1991) and returned as a zombie in ""Sensational She-Hulk"" #34-35 (1991–1992). The character was later recreated as an easygoing comic-relief character for the """". Sydney's codename was changed to Morph as DC Comics owned the trademark to ""Changeling"" when the series debuted. Inspired by"
"available on the iTunes Store and Amazon Instant Video. In 1998, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the series on VHS in the United States. Each of the three VHS tapes contained four (and five) episodes from the series. In the United Kingdom, the entire series was released on both VHS and DVD by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment whilst other VHS tapes were released by Roadshow Entertainment and ABC Video in Australia. The Morph Files The Morph Files is a British children's stop-motion animated comedy television show featuring Morph (see Morph (franchise)). The series was narrated by Neil Morrissey and"
"Gryphon Software Morph Gryphon Software's Morph was the first commercially available morphing software program for personal computers. Gryphon Software was founded in 1991 by Duane Maxwell, Bridget K. Burke and Gabriel Wilensky. Product versions included: Gryphon Software's Morph 2.5 was the original award-winning Windows/Mac morphing software that was used extensively in the movies (e.g.: ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"", """") and TV commercials and featured on the cover of Time Magazine twice. Morph 2.5 allowed one to create video-strength morphing animations on the PC, and it could play morphing sequences in QuickTime, AVI and FLC or FLI formats, turn the morph into"
"founder. On the screen of the computer which Beast uses John Wesley's name appears on the list of registered mutants just as Beast completes quoting him. While Morph is watching television, he sees a commercial for a new men's fragrance. He transforms into the attractive man on the commercial and says ""Aggression, by Calvin Clone"". This is a reference to the popular cosmetics company Calvin Klein. At the height of the series' popularity, Pizza Hut sold two VHS tapes that featured ""Night of the Sentinels (Parts 1 & 2)"" and ""Enter Magneto""/""Deadly Reunions"". Also contained were round-table discussions between prominent"
"to 30 January 2015. In 2015, a Morph experience will open at Land's End. The Land's End signpost will be rebranded 'Lamb's End' with original sets, models and characters from a range of Aardman productions. Visitors can also star in a real Shaun the Sheep scene, using green screen technology, and meet other characters from the Aardman family, including Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit. From 20 March to 2 October 2015 The Amazing Adventures of Morph have been restored in HD on YouTube. In the summer of 2015, Morph returned to TV on CBBC with the new episodes."
"first two series, the show uses a time rift in Cardiff as its primary plot generator, accounting for the unusual preponderance of alien beings in Cardiff. In the third and fourth series, Torchwood operate as fugitives. Gorman and Mori's characters were written out of the story at the end of the second series. Recurring actor Kai Owen was promoted to the main cast in series three, in which David-Lloyd too was written out. Subsequently, American actors Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, and Bill Pullman joined the cast of the show for its fourth series. The first series premiered on BBC Three"
"own TV series ""The Amazing Adventures of Morph"". Experiments with animated clay characters synchronised with 'live' recorded soundtracks led to a series of films in the style of animated documentary. The first two were part of the BBC TV series ""Animated Conversations"" and were called ""Down and Out"" (1977) and ""Confessions of a Foyer Girl"" (1978) . These were followed in 1983 by ""Conversation Pieces"", a series of five-minute long films produced for Channel 4. They were called ""On Probation"", ""Sales Pitch"", ""Palmy Days"", ""Late Edition"" and ""Early Bird"". In 1985 Nick Park joined the group. Lord, Park and Sproxton"
"this out. Kevin Sydney is a skilled actor, and a highly trained and efficient organizer of subversive activities. He carried various advanced weaponry of alien Siri design belonging to Factor Three, including a ray gun carried in a holster at his side. Though Morph is a prankster who downplays his intelligence, he is deceptively smart. He has a Master's degree in computer engineering, which he earned at Xavier's Institute. Changeling is the character's codename in the contiguous Marvel Universe, Earth-616. However, the character's reinvention as Morph in the ""X-Men"" animated series raised his profile such that alternate versions of the"
"set a target of £75,000 to be used to fund 12 new one minute episodes. The target was reached on 6 November 2013 after only 9 days, attracting contributions from over 1,700 backers who will receive a variety of rewards, including early access to the new animations and a small box of clay used in the production, depending on the individual's level of funding. In January 2014, Peter Lord and Aardman started production on 15 brand new episodes of Morph, with the help of donations from fans. The new series premiered on Morph's official YouTube channel from 4 July 2014"
"a screen saver or print a transformation sequence as a flip book. Gryphon Software Morph Gryphon Software's Morph was the first commercially available morphing software program for personal computers. Gryphon Software was founded in 1991 by Duane Maxwell, Bridget K. Burke and Gabriel Wilensky. Product versions included: Gryphon Software's Morph 2.5 was the original award-winning Windows/Mac morphing software that was used extensively in the movies (e.g.: ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"", """") and TV commercials and featured on the cover of Time Magazine twice. Morph 2.5 allowed one to create video-strength morphing animations on the PC, and it could play morphing sequences"
"episodes of ""The Keys of Marinus"" was ""a great waste of potential."" Voord actor Peter Stenson later wrote about his experience portraying a Voord for a leather fetish magazine. List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens Voord The Voord are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants portrayed in the British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". Both ""Voord"" and ""Voords"" have been used as the plural form. The Voord were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1964 ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Keys of Marinus"". They later appeared in ""Doctor Who"" stories in other formats."
"article in ""The Guardian"". The newspaper published a graph of the number of readers referred to its article for the period. Aardman Animations used its Twitter account in the name of Morph to point to a tribute to Tony Hart (a portrait of him being hung on a wall) that was included in the last episode of its forthcoming new set of episodes for the ""Morph"" television series. Tony Hart Norman Antony Hart (15 October 1925 – 18 January 2009) was an English artist and children's television presenter. He started off as an officer in a Gurkha regiment but became"
"unaired TV-show at that point, and a very early version had appeared in the music video for the song ""Oak Tree Girl"" by Powersolo in early 2004, directed by Anders Morgenthaler. In 2005, the TV station DR2 aired a show based on the cartoon. Four characters appeared in the show, the two authors of the strip (Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler) plus two of its minor characters; Dolph and ""Margit"", a feminist and politically correct squirrel. As could be expected, Dolph had a very strained relationship with the show's other characters. The show ran for 10 episodes. Dolph is named"
"Inspector Morse (TV series) Inspector Morse is a British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. The series comprises 33 two-hour episodes (100 minutes excluding commercials) produced between 1987 and 2000. Dexter made uncredited cameo appearances in all but three of the episodes. In 2000, the series was ranked 42 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute. The series was made by Zenith Productions for Central Independent Television, and first shown in the UK"
"Kevin Sydney Kevin Sydney is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Changeling has been depicted as a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, the character first appeared in ""The X-Men"" #35 (August 1967). Kevin Sydney first appeared as Changeling, a mutant shapeshifter. He was a short-lived adversary for the X-Men who subsequently joined Professor X and died shortly after, making him the first member of the X-Men to die in action. The character was reintroduced as Morph in the 1990s for """". An alternate reality version"
"but quit the show before it opened on Broadway. He was replaced by Joel Grey. Morse joined other performers, including Marlo Thomas, in creating the 1972 ""Free to Be... You and Me"" children's album. He also provided the voice for the cartoon character Howler in Hanna Barbera's ""Pound Puppies"". Another famous role he played was Jack in the 1979 animated Rankin/Bass special ""Jack Frost"". In ""The First Easter Rabbit"", also by Rankin/Bass, he was the voice of the main character, Stuffy. Morse has appeared in dozens of TV shows going back to the live days of television with the Kraft"
"Gordon the Gopher Gordon the Gopher, also known as Gordon T. Gopher, is an English puppet gopher who first appeared on Children's BBC (CBBC) between 1985 and 1987, presenting television shows with Phillip Schofield on the interstitial or in-vision continuity programme ""The Broom Cupboard"". His main puppeteer was Paul Smith, who would later go on to a career as a BBC executive. In the early 2000s (decade), Schofield stated in interviews that since his television work of the 1980s/1990s, Gordon has had a tragic (fictitious) life. In an interview on Channel 4's ""Zippy and George's Puppet Legends"" (2005), he revealed"
"Joseph Tremain Joseph Tremain (born 11 October 1991 in Romford, Havering) is an English actor. He has appeared on radio and in theatre, TV and films. He has also appeared in a number of commercials for a variety of products. Tremain made his West End stage début in a production of ""The Full Monty"" at the age of 10. He is best known for starring in the first series (13 episodes) of the children's television series ""Morris 2274"" in 2003 for Five television. He has also appeared in an episode of Half Moon Investigations for the BBC. He attended the"
"appearance of his costume as well, which was made of unstable molecules. Morph's mutation to shape-shift has also made it so that his body is a Play-doh-like substance and he can reattach limbs after they have been severed. He has limited telepathic abilities, which (in the original timeline) were enhanced by Professor X. As a side effect, he also gained limited telekinetic abilities. Upon choosing to work together and share his body with the energy mutant Proteus, Morph's powers appear to be amplified, at least enough to defeat a self-proclaimed god. Whether the two have access to Proteus' reality changing"
"his past, when an old acquaintance becomes the lead suspect in a murder case that involves the on-stage death of a young actress. The play toured the UK from August to December 2010. It was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 25 March 2017 with Neil Pearson playing Morse and Lee Ingleby playing Lewis. Inspector Morse Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse GM is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series ""Inspector Morse"" (1987–2000), in which John Thaw played the character, as well as"
"to dramatise the dialogue. A second film, also for the BBC followed in 1978. A TV series The Amazing Adventures of Morph was aired in 1980. Sand-coated puppet animation was used in the Oscar-winning 1977 film ""The Sand Castle"", produced by Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman. Hoedeman was one of dozens of animators sheltered by the National Film Board of Canada, a Canadian government film arts agency that had supported animators for decades. A pioneer of refined multiple stop-motion films under the NFB banner was Norman McLaren, who brought in many other animators to create their own creatively controlled films. Notable"
"goodbye to her foster parents, heading for a new future. Storm's voice actress in Season 1 and the majority of Season 2 of the series is Iona Morris. Part-way through Season 2, however, Alison Sealy-Smith takes over the role for the rest of the series. An original member of the X-Men, Morph, is loosely based upon a shape-shifting character from early X-Men comics, named Changeling. The character became very popular, to the point that an alternate version of Changeling in the ""Age of Apocalypse"" comics run was named Morph. Morph was originally placed in the series simply because the writers"
"occasional BBC Radio 4 series (for the Saturday Play) was made starring the voices of John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis. The series was written by Guy Meredith and directed by Ned Chaillet. Episodes included: ""The Wench is Dead"" (23 March 1992); ""Last Seen Wearing"" (28 May 1994); and ""The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn"" (10 February 1996). An Inspector Morse stage play appeared in 2010, written by Alma Cullen (author of four Morse screenplays for ITV). The part of Morse was played by Colin Baker. The play, entitled ""Morse—House of Ghosts"", saw DCI Morse looking to"
"The Mutants The Mutants is the fourth serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 8 April to 13 May 1972. The serial is set on and high above the Earth colony world Solos in the 30th century. In the serial, the Marshal of Solos (Paul Whitsun-Jones) plots to change Solos' atmosphere to make it breathable for humans but not for the native Solonians. At the same time, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) delivers a set of tablets containing"
"each meeting with great success. The violent nature of these shows saw both Edmondson and Mayall ending up in hospital at various points. A film version, ""Guest House Paradiso"", was released in 1999. A fourth TV series was also written, but not commissioned by the BBC. Mayall starred alongside Phoebe Cates in ""Drop Dead Fred"" (1991) as the eponymous character, a troublesome imaginary friend who reappears from a woman's childhood. He also appeared in ""Carry On Columbus"" (1992) with other alternative comedians. Mayall also provided the voice of the character Froglip, the prince of the goblins, in the 1992 animated"
"Adrian Shergold (three), and Danny Boyle (two). ""Morse"" remains popular and is frequently repeated on the principal and subsidiary ITV channels (ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4) in the UK as well as on television channels in other European countries and in Australia. Main characters: Other recurring characters: Main production credits: Morse was played by John Thaw, and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Lewis, by Kevin Whately. The character of Lewis was transformed from the elderly Welshman and ex-boxer of the novels to a much younger Geordie police sergeant with a family, as a foil to Morse's cynical streak. Morse's first name, Endeavour,"
"released on DVD. In October 2001, Hill moved to ITV in a lucrative deal, in which he created an all new show, ""Harry Hill's TV Burp"", where he would take a look at the week's television, showing clips from various British television programmes, and framing them with commentary or intercutting additional footage. The series would feature a regular stable of all new characters, including the Knitted Character, a small, knitted rabbit, Wagbo, a demon love child whose parents are reportedly Wagner Carillho and Mary Byrne of ""X Factor"" fame, an interpretation of Heather Trott from ""EastEnders"", played by Steve Bernham,"