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Pogles’ Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and Bagpuss.
Responsibility for any one of these would be enough to capture the hearts of a generation of children: Oliver Postgate was responsible for them all.
Since the 1950s, Postgate and partner Peter Firmin produced some of the finest – and occasionally most surreal – children’s animation ever to grace the television. Along with Gordon Murray, Brian Cant and Derek Griffiths – they were children’s television to pretty much every ‘child’ over the age of 30.
In a time when there were only three television channels (which shut down during the day!), summers lasted for a full six weeks and your parents didn’t know where you were from breakfast ’til teatime – Oliver Postgate et al made us smile.