"which was also adapted by Thompson and shown in Britain as ""Dougal and the Blue Cat"". The cat, named Buxton, was working for the Blue Voice who wanted to take over the garden. The Blue Voice was voiced by Fenella Fielding and was the only time that Eric Thompson called in another person to voice a character. The Blue Cat heard of Dougal's plan and made him face his ultimate weakness by locking him in a room full of sugar. In 2005, a film adaptation (also called ""The Magic Roundabout"") was released. The movie was about Dougal, Ermintrude, Brian and"
"Serge Danot's animated television series ""The Magic Roundabout"". These included the 'Magic Roundabout' Carousel (H852), 'Mr Mac Henry's' trike (H859), the 'Magic Roundabout' train (H851) and 'Dougal's' car (807), a modified Citroën DS featuring models of 'Dougal' the dog, 'Dylan' the rabbit and 'Brian' the snail. Individual figures of all the characters were available, as was a 'Magic Roundabout' Playground set (H853) that included all the models in the 'Magic Roundabout' series as well as a large 'magic garden' base that featured trees and train tracks. The models in the series were all able to run on these tracks, and"
"the series. A kind of engineering nut with a spring attached, for using in metal channels, is often called a 'Zebedee nut' for its similarity to the character. TV production equipment manufacturer Quantel used many Magic Roundabout references in their 'Henry' system. The hard disk system was named 'Dylan' and the operating system named 'Dougal' with VT-100 queries to the OS returning the memorable phrase 'Already Dougling'. The Magic Roundabout The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977. It was based on the French stop motion animation show ""Le Manège enchanté"", which was"
"The Magic Roundabout The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977. It was based on the French stop motion animation show ""Le Manège enchanté"", which was created in 1963 by Serge Danot with the help of Ivor Wood and Wood's French wife, Josiane. The French series was first broadcast from 1964 to 1974 on ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française). The BBC originally rejected translating the series because it was ""charming... but difficult to dub into English"", but later produced a version of the series using the French footage with new English-language scripts"
"Le Manège enchanté Le Manège enchanté (British English: ""The Magic Roundabout"", American English: ""The Magic Carousel"") is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1963 on on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. The series features characters in the make-believe land of ""Bois-Joli"": Father Pivoine, Zébulon a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog, Azalée the cow, Ambroise the snail, Flappy the Spanish rabbit, Margote a girl, and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every sentence with ""Hep Hep Hep"". The programmes were created"
"The Magic Roundabout (film) The Magic Roundabout (released in France as Pollux - Le manège enchanté and redubbed in the United States as Doogal) is a 2005 French-British computer-animated adventure fantasy film based on the television series ""The Magic Roundabout"". The film features the voices of Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Ray Winstone and Lee Evans. The film begins as the wizard Zebedee, a red jack-in-the-box-like creature, is having a nightmare about being chased by a rampaging blue jack-in-the-box creature named Zeebad. The film then starts with Dougal sneaking around the"
"a snail with yellow-orange body, a large brown shell, a spectacle, and a brown shirt with a red tie. He does various evil-doings, especially vandalism, which must be fixed using machines Hopsalot creates. Not surprisingly, he dislikes CJ, and to some extent, they seem to have a rivalry. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the character Dr. Listick, a villain who appeared in the older ""JumpStart Reading for Second Graders"" and the book ""CJ and the Mysterious Map"". Despite appearing in other JumpStart Advanced games, Casey Cat, Pierre Polar Bear, Eleanor Elephant, and Kisha Koala are absent from JumpStart Advanced"
"Disney Junior and from 2 April 2006 on M6. Le Manège enchanté Le Manège enchanté (British English: ""The Magic Roundabout"", American English: ""The Magic Carousel"") is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1963 on on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. The series features characters in the make-believe land of ""Bois-Joli"": Father Pivoine, Zébulon a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog, Azalée the cow, Ambroise the snail, Flappy the Spanish rabbit, Margote a girl, and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every"
"Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) The ""Magic Roundabout"" in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, is the familiar name given to the Plough roundabout. The familiar name comes from the children's television programme, and is also used for a similar junction in Swindon and the M40 junction in Denham. The official name relates to a former public house, called ""The Plough Inn"", which was between the junction of what is now Selden Hill and St Albans Road. It has also been known as the Moor End Roundabout as it is adjacent to the part of Boxmoor nearest the town. Before Hemel Hempstead became"
"Enormous Crocodile"", if only by reason of his role in ""The Toad and The Snail"", wherein the two characters of the title are the same creature, magically transformed from one to the other when the giant Toad jumps with a small boy on his back into France, becomes the Snail to escape the amphibian-hungry Frenchmen and becomes the Roly-Poly Bird so that he can escape to England when the Frenchmen also express interest in eating the snail. Nevertheless, he is again shown as a character that ""saves the day"". Roly-Poly Bird The Roly-Poly Bird is a fictional character in children's"
"Round the Bend Round the Bend was a satirical British children's television series, which ran on Children's ITV for three series from 1989 to 1991. The show was a Hat Trick production for Yorkshire Television. The show was later repeated on Channel 4, The Children's Channel and Nickelodeon UK and was nominated for an RTS Award. It was created by the team behind the comic ""Oink!"" - Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband and Mark Rodgers. The puppets, animation characters and main set were designed by Gallagher, who was also the show's graphic designer. The puppets were made by the team who"
"carousel. He goes so far as to place a tack in the road to pop a sweet cart's tyre, thinking to be rewarded for watching the cart. After convincing the driver, Mr. Grimsdale to leave, Dougal accidentally starts the cart up again and causes it to crash into the titular magic roundabout at the centre of the village. Zeebad from Zebedee's nightmare emerges from the top and flies away, followed shortly after by a Foot Guard figurine that is thrown off the roundabout. The roundabout freezes over, trapping repairman Mr. Rusty, Dougal's young owner Florence, and two other children named"
"French names (Pollux and Zebulon, respectively). In Austria there was in 1974/75 a special version in ""Betthupferl"" (the same as the German ""Mr Sandman"") called ""Cookie and his friends"", as Cookie and his friend Apollonius always went through a hole in a tree to join the garden. In the United States, the series was called ""The Magic Carousel"" and it aired in the 1970s on ""Pinwheel"", a programme on the children's channel Nickelodeon. This version used American actors such as Michael Karp (the voice of Dougal in this version) and was based on the original French incarnation, such as the"
"effort to help her friend, the snail crawls to a nearby school, and asks for help by writing on the blackboard. The children fetch the emergency services, and the local people and the fire department help to keep the whale wet until the tide turns, and the whale and the snail are able to refloat and swim safely away. They return to the snail's home in the docks, where the other snails are suitably impressed by the travellers' tales, and the whale offers to take them all away to travel around the world. The book won the Early Years award"
"monocled snail with a top hat, has also appeared twice in the series, and is referred to by this name in the episode ""Imagination"" and ""Chip's Theme"". Olaf is very fat. It's half Thai on its mother's side. It loves singing in the shower and long walks on the beach. Olaf is very loveable and goes to Zumba class whenever it can. Nate is very long and skinny, and is half Mexican on its father's side. Chip is a perfectly normal shaped potato and Ruby, who is the lead singer in most songs, is a small orange potato. Chip was"
"local redwood. The trail runs daily throughout 2012. A ridable wheeled Gruffalo children's suitcase is manufactured for Trunki; the case had been featured as a pitch idea on the entrepreneur game show ""Dragons' Den"" and rejected by the show's judges. Donaldson and Scheffler have collaborated on many other titles; some feature cameos from the Gruffalo in other guises, including as Christmas tree decoration in Stick Man, a drawing by a child in ""The Snail and the Whale"" and a fish in ""Tiddler"". The book has been adapted into a 27-minute animated film, which was broadcast on BBC One in the"
"(based on Noël Coward), with the catchphrase, ""My eyes are not first-class, you know"", The Moog, a supposed ""dog"" who is unable to think for himself, Twit, a small bird, The Beast, a former prince turned into a hairy shambling creature by Evil Edna, gnomes, the Astrognats (a group of bugs who explore outer space by means of their toadstool rocket), the Bookworm and a regiment of toy soldiers. Each of the original 26 episodes lasted approximately 5 minutes and were broadcast at 5:35pm on BBC1, continuing a tradition of short cartoons (such as ""The Magic Roundabout"" and ""The Wombles"")"
"July 20, 2002 on TLC and later on Channel 4 in the UK, MBC 3 in the Middle East, Fox Kids in Australia, SABC2 in South Africa, TV3 in Ireland, TVN in Poland, the Arutz HaYeladim in Israel and UBC Kids in Thailand, in addition also airing on CVM Television in Jamaica. Salty is a young boy who loves using his imagination. Every day, he goes to the lighthouse near his home to play with his seaside friends: Ocho, the octopus; Claude, the hermit crab; Sophie and Sadie, the bird twins; a group of tiny clams; Aurora, the light that"
"James the Cat James the Cat was a British children's series created by Kate Canning and produced by Jan Clayton with Grampian Television. It chronicles the many events which take place at the Cornerhouse (number 104) between James and his new friends. Fellow characters include: Mrs. Lavender, a snail; Frida, a kangaroo; Citroen, a French frog; Rocky, a dimwitted rabbit; and Dennis, a pink fire-breathing Welsh-accented Chinese dragon. There is also a beehive in the garden at the Cornerhouse. Next door are Ma and Pa Rat, and their rat children. The program changes quite a bit between the two series."
"to Disney World. When Lou asks Andy who he's looking forward to meeting, Andy replies ""Gordon the Gopher."" 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 bike messenger, a couple, man in a ""goofy hat"", and a man wearing a suit. Originally, when the Lich set off his bomb, the storyboard featured a simple mushroom cloud. Ian Jones-Quartey, one of the series' storyboard revisionists, however, added a face to the blast. Ristaino then added skulls to the smoke. The series' staff liked this version so much that they later included it on the title card. The snail, an easter egg that appears in every episode, appears in the episodes and plays a prominent part. Originally, the snail was inspired by the in-jokes in episodes of"
"roundabout and went off on adventures (but on some episodes only Peggy and Why went on adventures so on the 3rd shape they would both go together). At the end of each adventure, a picture associated with it appeared in their shaped ticket (purple circle, red square, pink triangle, yellow diamond, green arch or blue rectangle), and these would combine to make the song, which ended the episode. Thursday – The Patch Stop. Featuring Sam Patch, a small scarecrow doll and later replaced by Peggy Patch, a small rag doll who were both very kind natured. Sam and later Peggy"
"credits are presented) although the audio is retained in the English audio track. The Magic Roundabout (film) The Magic Roundabout (released in France as Pollux - Le manège enchanté and redubbed in the United States as Doogal) is a 2005 French-British computer-animated adventure fantasy film based on the television series ""The Magic Roundabout"". The film features the voices of Tom Baker, Jim Broadbent, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Ray Winstone and Lee Evans. The film begins as the wizard Zebedee, a red jack-in-the-box-like creature, is having a nightmare about being chased by a rampaging blue"
"one Dash can do tricks!"" Another pair of puppet friends were Professor Mopp and his blue dog Morgan. The Violinist and Counting Dots had a sidekick called Mr Domino (Peter Gunn, Stephen Cannon). The Dot who plays the drums was accompanied by Domino the Musical Monkey It was later replaced by the Roundabout Stop. Presented by Mr. Jolly. The show featured the musician, Charlie Grindle (Nick Mercer), who also appeared as one of the bus drivers from The Why Bird Stop, Bitsy Bob (Michele Durler), who played music and made things, and the initially Bella and Baxter the Numbears and"
"purple skin. Plus was very upbeat and enthusiastic, while Minus was more thoughtful and easily discouraged. A recurring sketch was Minus's attempt to board a spaceship, and Plus distracting him and causing him to miss the take-off. Their favorite game was ""Gotcha Last,"" a combination of Tag and Hide and Seek that went on eternally. Other characters included Silas the Snail, an elderly snail who was constantly on his way to an annual snail gathering (although during the series run, he never made it further than the back garden due to snails being so slow), who extolled the virtues of"
"The Legend of the Golden Snail The Legend of the Golden Snail is the 14th children's book written and illustrated by author Graeme Base. It was published in 2010, by a collaboration of Penguin Books and Viking (publisher). Featuring rhymes and detailed illustrations this book is best suited for ages 5 and up. The story follows the adventure of Wilbur who, along with his cat, decides to undertake a voyage to find the 'golden snail'. To get to the golden snail they travel past several places, while going past various locations Wilbur helps various magical/mechanical creatures, who later in the"
"Dragon named Toby (voiced by Richard Robinson); the Magician told Toby stories by moving his finger around in a puddle (when using the interior set) and a bird bath (when using the exterior set) and producing images. He also had a cauldron inside and water barrel outside, both of which could talk. The stories he told were presented as animations, narrated by Kate Lee (who also played a minor character, Aunt Flo). The Magician lived in a large house at the end of Puddle Lane, hence the name of the programme. In an interview in 2014, Neil Innes recalled his"
"Tikkabilla Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC One, BBC Two and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title ""Tikkabilla"" comes from the Hindi word meaning ""Hopscotch"", a popular children's game. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters explain things to Tamba. Whilst Tamba appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to"
"Magic Roundabout (Swindon) The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and is a ring junction consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged around a sixth central, anticlockwise roundabout. Located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C., its name comes from the popular children's television series ""The Magic Roundabout"". In 2009 it was voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain. The roundabout was constructed according to the design of Frank Blackmore, of the British Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the larger, inner roundabout is counterclockwise, and traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the"
"Splat the Cat Splat the Cat is a 2008 children's picture book by Rob Scotton. Splat is so scared of his first day of Cat School that his tail moves with worry. He needs a friend so he takes his pet, a mouse named Seymour, with him to school. Mrs. Wimpydimple covers lots of topics such as self-esteem and nature. When Seymour gets out of Splat's lunchbox, the cats chase after him. The teacher saves Seymour. By day two, Splat's tail moves with excitement. A ""Kirkus Reviews"" review says, ""From the blackboard lessons to the store-window signs advertising white chocolate"
"could have happened. Octavia, Ezylryb's personal nest-maid Kielian snake and friend (her species, able to dig through tough material with their teeth and expand some of the scales around their heads to added strange and bluff, is similar in color to the blue racer), gives them information that Ezylryb was also the famous warrior, Lyze of Kiel (Ezyl is Lyze spelled backward) and has personal relationships with the Rogue Smith of Silverveil. Then, during the time of copper-rose rain (Autumn at the Great Tree), the band sneaks away during a week-long festival to go talk to the Rogue Smith in"
"Snailsbury Tales Snailsbury Tales was a children's cartoon broadcast on the BBC (on both the CBBC channel and its BBC Two slot) between 2002 and 2005. It was produced by Maverick Entertainment. The cartoon was about a town whose inhabitants were all snails. Much of the humour derived from the fact that it would take 10 days to visit the shops, or that the fire service was proud of their ability to move at 0.1 mph. The shows voice cast featured Jon Culshaw as the narrator and additional voices, along side David Holt, Sheila Steafel and Mike Hurley providing the"
"afraid the light would turn them to jelly. Unlike the normal sprites, they lack wings and have snail shells upon their heads. Their ears and eyes are much larger than the other sprites. Rootle has an odd impediment where he switches the first letters of characters names around (Twom and Tigs, Pink and Stuffy, though he does not do this with Shade) Tree Fu Tom Tree Fu Tom is a live-action/CGI children's television program which has been shown on BBC and CBeebies in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical"