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Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate is known for creator, with popular credits including The Complete Bagpuss, The Complete Ivor the Engine, Vote for Froglet, The Alchemists of Sound.

Born 12 Apr 1925 Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

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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 above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Complete Bagpuss The Complete Ivor the Engine Vote for Froglet The Alchemists of Sound Clangers: Complete Collection

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The Complete Bagpuss

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The Complete Ivor the Engine

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The Alchemists of Sound

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Clangers: Complete Collection

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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

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Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

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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'

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Clangers

Ivor the Engine

The Pingwings

Bagpuss

Noggin the Nog

The Seal of Neptune

Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House

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2023 Clangers: Complete Collection as Narrator (Voice) movie 2009 Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films as Self movie 2009 Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley as Bagpus (voice) movie 2006 The Complete Ivor the Engine as Narrator / All movie 2005 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' as Self movie 2005 The Complete Bagpuss as Narrator / All Voices movie 2003 The Alchemists of Sound as Self movie 1986 Tottie: The Doll's Wish as Narrator tv 1984 Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) tv 1976 Ivor the Engine tv 1974 Vote for Froglet as Narrator (voice) movie 1974 Bagpuss as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice tv 1969 Clangers as Narrator (voice) tv 1960 The Seal of Neptune as Narrator tv 1959 Ivor The Engine as Narrator (voice) tv 1959 Noggin the Nog as Narrator tv TBA The Pingwings tv

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Oliver Postgate is known for creator, with popular credits including The Complete Bagpuss, The Complete Ivor the Engine, Vote for Froglet, The Alchemists of Sound.

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Oliver Postgate is known for credits including The Complete Bagpuss, The Complete Ivor the Engine, Vote for Froglet, The Alchemists of Sound, Clangers: Complete Collection.

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