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* ShortLivedBigImpact: The show only ran for one 13-episode series, though remains one of the most iconic UK animations of all time due to repeat airings throughout the 70s and 80s. A 1999 BBC poll voted it the UK's favourite children's programme.
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** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned. After Postgate clicked the character's stuffy nasally voice and "Nyup, nyup, nyup, nyup" VerbalTic, Firmin likened it to a bird, so Yaffle became a woodpecker.
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** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned. After Postgate clicked the character's stuffy nasally voice and "Nyup, nyup, nyup, nyup" VerbalTic, Firmin likened it to a bird, so Yaffle Bogwood became a yaffle woodpecker.
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** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned into an FunnyAnimal instead.
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** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned into an FunnyAnimal instead.redesigned. After Postgate clicked the character's stuffy nasally voice and "Nyup, nyup, nyup, nyup" VerbalTic, Firmin likened it to a bird, so Yaffle became a woodpecker.
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** Bagpuss was intended to be a ginger marmalade colour, but after a dying mistake his fur came out electric pink. The creative team preferred the mistaken colour.
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** Bagpuss was intended to be a ginger marmalade colour, but after a dying dyeing mistake his fur came out electric pink. The creative team preferred the mistaken colour.
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* MissingEpisode: Not of the show itself per se, but ''Mouse Tales'' is made out of a series of short audio stories Oliver Postgate made that have only recently been recovered.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A revival of Bagpuss was proposed in the early 2010s, though Postgate's family voiced against the direction and plans to animate it in CGI rather than puppets like the original.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Bagpuss was intended to be a ginger marmalade colour, but after a dying mistake his fur came out electric pink. The creative team preferred the mistaken colour.
** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned into an FunnyAnimal instead.
** A revival of Bagpuss was proposed in the early 2010s, though Postgate's family voiced against the direction and plans to animate it in CGI rather than puppets like the original.
** Bagpuss was intended to be a ginger marmalade colour, but after a dying mistake his fur came out electric pink. The creative team preferred the mistaken colour.
** Professor Yaffle was originally to be a wooden man with a top hat called Professor Bogwood (after the wood he was carved from), but the BBC found the design too frightening so asked he be redesigned into an FunnyAnimal instead.
** A revival of Bagpuss was proposed in the early 2010s, though Postgate's family voiced against the direction and plans to animate it in CGI rather than puppets like the original.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A revival of Bagpuss was proposed in the early 2010s, though Postgate's family voiced against the direction and plans to animate it in CGI rather than puppets like the original.
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* TheDanza: Emily is played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of Postgate's partner and character designer, Peter Firmin.
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* TheCastShowoff: Most episodes are basically written around the songs of folk singers John Faulkner and Sandra Kerr, who played Gabriel and Madeleine.
* TheDanza: Emily is played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of Postgate's partner and character designer, PeterFirmin.Firmin.
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* TheDanza: Emily is played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of Postgate's partner and character designer, Peter
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* TheDanza: Emily is played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of Postgate's partner and character designer, Peter Firmin.
