Children’s television

Bagpuss

Oct 22, 2020Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

Children’s television series about a young Victorian girl called Emily, her shop, and her magical saggy old cloth cat, Bagpuss.

Jackanory

Sep 19, 2020Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

BBC children’s television series originally broadcast from 1965 until 1996.

Supermarionation

Sep 8, 2019Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

Style of puppetry created in the 1960s and used extensively in the action-adventure puppet series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.

Four Feather Falls

Apr 27, 2019Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

Children’s’ television show about a cowboy with magic guns, the third puppet television show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, and the first to use an early version of Anderson’s Supermarionation puppetry.

Whirligig (TV series)

Sep 1, 2018Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

BBC television programme for children broadcast from 1950 until 1956.

Rag, Tag and Bobtail

Jul 12, 2018Eric CorbettChildren’s television, Television programme

BBC children’s television programme that ran from 1953 until 1965 as the Thursday programme in the weekly cycle of Watch With Mother.