Oliver Postgate
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Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time Description…
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Clangers
1969 · TV
Ivor the Engine
1976 · TV
Ivor The Engine
1959 · TV
Pogles' Wood
1965 · TV
Noggin the Nog
1959 · TV
The Pingwings
— · TV
Bagpuss
1974 · TV
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984 · TV
The Seal of Neptune
1960 · TV
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
1986 · TV
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 · Movie
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005 · Movie