"at 6.00 pm on CBeebies. Following the March 2015 special, a full series was commissioned for the summer of that year. The series was narrated by Michael Palin, and co-produced by Smallfilms with the involvement of Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's son, Dan. The series was directed by Chris Tichborne and Mole Hill, with music composed by John Du Prez. 52 11-minute episodes were commissioned. The voices of the Iron Chicken, the Soup Dragon, and the Baby Soup Dragon were by Dan Postgate. The first episode of the new series aired on 15 June 2015. It turned out to be"
"2007, Postgate and Firmin were jointly presented with the Action for Children's Arts J. M. Barrie Award ""for a lifetime's achievement in delighting children"". ""The Soup Dragons"", a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, took their name from the Clangers character. In the 1972 ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Sea Devils"", The Master watches the episode ""The Intruder"". He mistakes it for a documentary about alien life, and expresses his irritation when George Trenchard reveals that it's purely a fictional series. A Clanger (as a glove-puppet rather than a stop-motion puppet) appears as a member of"
"story books. 1 The Saga of Noggin the Nog (a.k.a. The King of the Nogs) (6 episodes) (b/w) 2 The Ice Dragon (6 episodes) (b/w) 3 The Flying Machine (3 episodes) (b/w) 4 The Omruds (3 episodes) (b/w) 5 The Firecake (3 episodes) (b/w) 6 Noggin and the Ice Dragon (4 episodes) (colour) (remake of 2nd saga)<br> 7 Noggin and the Pie (2 episodes) (colour) (based on the book published in 1971) Narrated by Oliver Postgate.<br> Character voices by Oliver Postgate and Ronnie Stevens.<br> Stories by Oliver Postgate, Pictures by Peter Firmin.<br> Music by Vernon Elliott. Various Noggin short stories"
"Soup (TV series) Soup is a children's claymation-style animated television series made in New Zealand which aired on TVNZ in 2002. It was created by Jamie Canard and ran for three series of 10 episodes each within the ""What Now"" children's TV programme. Each episode was around five minutes long and portrayed the life of fictional creatures living in a swamp. The style of the series was inspired by ""The Trap Door"", with a variety of creatures ranging from hideous rampaging monsters to small scuttling things, typically with big eyes on top of their heads. The only regularly appearing talking"
"Pogles"" and ""Pogles' Wood"" survive, and all are available on DVD. Episodes of ""Pogles Wood"", selected by its creators, were initially released on DVD in 2006 by the ""Dragons' Friendly Society"" (an organisation founded by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin). Subsequently three further DVDs followed, again released by the ""Dragons' Friendly Society"", including the final collection of 14 episodes, released in November 2015 under the title ""Pogles' End"". Pogles' Wood Pogles' Wood (in its first series it was entitled ""The Pogles"") is an animated British Children's television show produced by Smallfilms between 1965 and 1967, first broadcast by the BBC"
"on the CD accompanying Oliver Postgate's autobiography, and a DVD of the 18 episodes is also available, from the ""Dragons' Friendly Society"". The music for the series was composed by Vernon Elliot, and performed by him with Sidney Sutcliffe. Series One Series one was broadcast from August to September 1961. Episode 1: """"The Happy Event"""" Episode 2: """"The Ice Cream Tree"""" Episode 3: """"The New House"""" Episode 4: """"Baby Pingwing"""" Episode 5: """"The Sorry Birds"""" Episode 6: """"The Seaside"""" Series Two Series two was broadcast from November 1962 to February 1963 Episode 7: """"Robinson Pingwing"""" Episode 8: """"The Fish"""" Episode"
"released on DVD by the Dragons Friendly Society www.Dragons-friendly-society.co.uk/seal.htm The Seal of Neptune The Seal of Neptune was a children's programme created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, also known for their works ""Ivor the Engine"" and ""Clangers"". It was broadcast on BBC Television in 1960. Its plot featured the adventures of a seahorse and a shrimp and was similar in animation style to Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog. In October 2010 it was reported that original film of the series had been recovered from a disused pig sty on a farm belonging to Firmin. In 2014 ""The"
"publishing company called The Dragons Friendly Society, to look after ""Noggin the Nog"", ""Pogles' Wood"" and ""Pingwings"". After Postgate's death in December 2008, Smallfilms was inherited by his son Daniel. Universal took the distribution rights to the works of Smallfilms. Any such agreement does not include the materials published through The Dragons Friendly Society. In 2014, Postgate's son, Daniel Postgate, collaborated with Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of ""Clangers"", with Daniel writing many of the episodes. Postgate and Firmin recognised that their product was not sold to children, but to commissioning television executives. Postgate described in"
"of a Child in the United States. The show has sold in over 100 countries worldwide. Fluffy Gardens Fluffy Gardens is an Irish preschool animation television show created, written and directed by Jason Tammemagi and produced by Monster Animation & Design Ltd. Each seven-minute episode tells the story of a different character. Characters include Paolo the Cat, Lola the Mosquito, Wee Reg the Puppy, George the Mean Yellow Dog, and the Small Green Thing. The show is distributed internationally by Target Entertainment. The show airs currently on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland, Cartoonito and CITV in the UK, Australian Broadcasting"
"The Soup Dragons The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television show ""Clangers"", the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song ""I'm Free"", which was a top five hit in the United Kingdom in 1990, and ""Divine Thing"", a Top 40 hit in the United States in 1992. The Soup Dragons formed in Bellshill, a town near Motherwell, in 1985. The line up was Sean Dickson (vocals, lead guitar), Jim McCulloch (guitar, second voice) who replaced Ian Whitehall"
"still makes music. The story of The Soup Dragons is traced as part of 2017 documentary Teenage Superstars. The Soup Dragons The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television show ""Clangers"", the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song ""I'm Free"", which was a top five hit in the United Kingdom in 1990, and ""Divine Thing"", a Top 40 hit in the United States in 1992. The Soup Dragons formed in Bellshill, a town near Motherwell, in 1985."
"Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House is a 1984 animated television series produced by Smallfilms, 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. The programme debuted on BBC1 in the UK on the 6th February 1984. The series has a very dark edge, as the dolls wish very hard that good things will happen and that they will not fall on misfortune. The series"
"Toot the Tiny Tugboat Toot the Tiny Tugboat is a British 2D-animated preschool television series developed from Sebastien Braun’s ""Toot and Pop!"" picture book by Lupus Films and animated by Cloth Cat Animation. The series has been airing on Channel 5 Milkshake! since October 2014, and started showing on the 9am time slot from October 2015. Additionally, the series broadcasts on the Cartoonito channel, with the Welsh language version airing on S4C Cyw. The series is also available on UK Netflix. The show follows the nautical adventures of a young tugboat called Toot as he helps out with jobs around"
"Potatoes and Dragons Potatoes and Dragons is an animated series produced by Alphanim (now Gaumont Animation) and Canadian animation company Cinar (now DHX Media). It was formerly broadcast in the United States until late September 2010 on This TV. King Hugo III - King Hugo III is the king of the land of the potatoes. He is easily upset and stubborn and hates the local dragon or anyone standing in his way or stopping things from going his way. Voiced by Danny Wells Harry - Harry is King Hugo's torturer and right hand henchman. He tends to be absentminded and"
"Noggin the Nog Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series (of the same name, originally broadcast 1959–1965 and 1979–1980) and series of illustrated books (published 1965–1977), created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a cult classic from the golden age of British children's television. Noggin himself 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. Peter Firmin is said to have come up with the name of Noggin after"
"of the most requested unreleased DVDs at TVShowsOnDVD.com. Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) is an animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP and Fairwater Films and distributed in the UK by The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd (who also produced ""Potsworth & Co."" and ""Budgie the Little Helicopter"") which was later changed to SKD Media and Entertainment Rights and then dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) and by PMMP and TF1 Intl in the rest of the world. The show originally aired on"
"7, 2003 until September 27, 2009 when Noggin was re-branded as Nick Jr., and continued to air reruns until October 30, 2010. The show aired in reruns on ""Nick on CBS"" from September 16, 2000, to June 9, 2001. As of May 28, 2018, it is airing on Qubo. Maggie and the Ferocious Beast Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is a Canadian animated children's television series created by Michael and Betty Paraskevas. The program was based on the 1996 book ""The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide"" and its sequels, all of which were also written by the Paraskevases. The"
"One of the makers have worked on dozens of other children's shows including Simon Hopkinson who wrote ""Petals"", the animated feature film ""The Magic Pudding"", ""Raggs"", ""Chuck Finn"", ""Dive Olly Dive!"" and ""Bananas in Pyjamas"", Ron Saunders was well known as the creator of ""Spellbinder"" and ""Johnson and Friends"" and Ian Munro who also directed ""Hi-5"", ""Bananas in Pyjamas"", ""Johnson and Friends"", ""Magic Mountain"", ""Cushion Kids"" and ""Toybox"". New MacDonald's Farm New McDonald's Farm is an Australian children's television program broadcast on the Nine Network and Playhouse Disney, with episodes being produced from 2004 until at least 2008. This show"
"with three other shows in USA's ""Action Extreme Team"" programming block: ""Street Fighter"", """", and ""Wing Commander Academy"". The episode 21, “Endgame"" is part of a four-episode crossover with several other shows that aired as part of the US ""Action Extreme Team"" programming block: The Savage Dragon (TV series) The Savage Dragon is a half-hour animated television series aired as part of the Cartoon Express on the USA Network. Produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, it ran for 26 episodes from 1995 to 1996 and featured numerous supporting characters from the comic book series, including She-Dragon, Horde, Barbaric, Mako and Overlord."
"built by Lorraine Cramp in 1982. She also made the Moose and Beaver costumes for ""Cucumber"", the Sidney the Kangaroo costume for ""Math Patrol"", and the Subterranean Monster costume for ""Mathmakers"". The 1980s Canadian sketch-comedy show ""Smith & Smith"", starring real-life husband and wife team Steve and Morag Smith, used to parody the ""Polka Dot Door"" with a recurring sketch called ""The Kids Show"", with male and female hosts who loathed each other and bickered their way through the sketch. The sketches also featured the ""Jerkaroo"", played by Steve Smith with a paper bag over his head. The 1989 UK-Canada"
"Dragon Tales Dragon Tales is a Canadian–American animated pre-school fantasy adventure children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of two ordinary kids, Emmy and Max, and their dragon friends Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The series began broadcasting on PBS on their PBS Kids block on September 6, 1999, with its final episode airing on November 25, 2005. After the series ended, reruns remained on this channel and another channel related to it named Universal Kids until"
"than revealing the dragon's weaknesses, and perhaps a tasty snack if he upsets the knight. Voiced by John Locke The show generally begins with a new knight coming in to defeat the dragon, and after an amusing ""battle"" leaving either scared, running or happy. Potatoes and Dragons Potatoes and Dragons is an animated series produced by Alphanim (now Gaumont Animation) and Canadian animation company Cinar (now DHX Media). It was formerly broadcast in the United States until late September 2010 on This TV. King Hugo III - King Hugo III is the king of the land of the potatoes. He"
"for Best Animated Television Production in 2007. Currently the show has a rating of 7.9/10 on IMDb.com, 8.2/10 on TV.com, and 5/5 from Common Sense Media Jane and the Dragon (TV series) Jane and the Dragon is a Canadian-New Zealand CGI children's animated television series based on the books of the same name by Martin Baynton. The show is directed by Mike Fallows and motion capture directed by Peter Salmon; it is co-produced by Weta Workshop (as Weta Productions) in New Zealand and Nelvana Limited in Canada.The series follows the comedic exploits of Jane, an adolescent girl training to be"
"The Seal of Neptune The Seal of Neptune was a children's programme created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, also known for their works ""Ivor the Engine"" and ""Clangers"". It was broadcast on BBC Television in 1960. Its plot featured the adventures of a seahorse and a shrimp and was similar in animation style to Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog. In October 2010 it was reported that original film of the series had been recovered from a disused pig sty on a farm belonging to Firmin. In 2014 ""The Seal of Neptune and the Mermaid's Pearls"" (1963) were"
"and various Snuffleupagus relatives on ""Sesame Street"". He has also been Magellan, a baby dragon, on the ACE Award-winning series ""Eureeka's Castle"" on Nick Jr, Leon MacNeal in ""The Puzzle Place"", Raphael in ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III"" and Madame Chairbird in the Sesame Street film ""Follow That Bird"". His repertoire of characters also includes Kako on the Nick Jr. series ""Oobi"" and Blue on Nick Jr.'s ""Blue's Room"", Rabbit for The Disney Channel's Emmy Award-winning series ""The Book of Pooh"", Leon on PBS's ""The Puzzle Place"", and Knock-Knock on ""The Great Space Coaster"". In addition, he’s performed with and/or"
"black and white drawings done by Real Musgrave in the mid-1970s, depicting a small dragon in the pocket of a tweed sport jacket. Those dragons were originally based on Real and Muff's dog Flower. The first set of Pocket Dragon figurines went on sale in June 1989, and included twenty-seven of the figures. They were produced in Stoke-on-Trent, England. In 1998, an animated television series was produced based on Pocket Dragons, called ""Pocket Dragon Adventures"". It ran for fifty-two half hour episodes or 104 European 15 minute episodes. The writers of the series collaborated with both Musgraves, and Real contributed"
"Poppy Cat (TV series) Poppy Cat (alternatively The Extraordinary Adventures of Poppy Cat) is a British preschool animated television series, which first aired on 2 May 2011 and last aired on 2 October 2015. It is based on a series of books created by British illustrator and writer Lara Jones, and is a co-production of Coolabi Productions, King Rollo Films, Ingenious Media, and Cake Entertainment for Nick Jr. and Channel 5. The series centers on Poppy, a young neckerchief-wearing kitten heroine, leading her eccentric team of friends who are stuffed animals, Alma the bunny, Zuzu the Dalmatian puppy, an owl"
"The Savage Dragon (TV series) The Savage Dragon is a half-hour animated television series aired as part of the Cartoon Express on the USA Network. Produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, it ran for 26 episodes from 1995 to 1996 and featured numerous supporting characters from the comic book series, including She-Dragon, Horde, Barbaric, Mako and Overlord. The Dragon was voiced by Jim Cummings. Additional voices were provided by Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jennifer Hale, René Auberjonois, Frank Welker, Paul Eiding, Rob Paulsen and Tony Jay. Episode 21 of ""Savage Dragon"", ""Endgame"", served as the second part of a four-part crossover"
"Peg + Cat Peg + Cat is an American/Canadian animated children's television series based on the children's book ""The Chicken Problem"", which was published in 2012. The series, which features the voice acting of Hayley Faith Negrin and Dwayne Hill, is created by Billy Aronson and Jennifer Oxley and produced by Fred Rogers Productions and 9 Story Media Group. It debuted on most PBS stations on October 7, 2013, as part of the revamped PBS Kids brand. The show is targeted to children 3 to 5 years old. The goal is to ""inspire preschoolers’ natural curiosity about math and help"
"Black Beauty"" for ITV; and ""Cloud Burst"", ""The Boy from Space"" and ""The King's Dragon"" as part of BBC's ""Look and Read"" (1967–2004) programme for schools, some episodes of which he also presented. In the 1980s came the historical adventures ""Smuggler"" and its later antipodean-based follow-up ""Adventurer"" and between them, the lavish HTV production ""Robin of Sherwood"", which ran for three series. Carpenter then worked on a number of series for children and families in the 1990s (""The Winjin' Pom"", ""Stanley's Dragon"" and ""Out of Sight""), some of which (""The Borrowers"", ""The Return of the Borrowers"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"")"
"via Amazon.com and their CreateSpace MOD program. Saturday Supercade Saturday Supercade is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983. Each episode is composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of arcade video games. The debut characters included: Pitfall! and Q*bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly. During the second season, Q*bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Pitfall! segments were replaced by shorts featuring: Frogger (voiced by Bob Sarlatte) is an"
"Stanley's Dragon Stanley's Dragon is a 1994's British family fantasy TV miniseries on CITV starring Judd Trichter and Mia Fothergill. The film takes place in present-day England. Stanley Katz (Trichter) is an American exchange student who, upon becoming separated from his friends in a cavern, finds an unusual rock. He and his friend Rosie (Fothergill) take it home and wash it, discovering it is actually an egg. Rosie suspects it is a dinosaur egg, but when it hatches, they discover the creature inside is actually a dragon. The dragon grows quickly and they name him ""Olly"". However, the dragon is"
"Jackson, composers). Peg + Cat Peg + Cat is an American/Canadian animated children's television series based on the children's book ""The Chicken Problem"", which was published in 2012. The series, which features the voice acting of Hayley Faith Negrin and Dwayne Hill, is created by Billy Aronson and Jennifer Oxley and produced by Fred Rogers Productions and 9 Story Media Group. It debuted on most PBS stations on October 7, 2013, as part of the revamped PBS Kids brand. The show is targeted to children 3 to 5 years old. The goal is to ""inspire preschoolers’ natural curiosity about math"