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Bagpuss

Bagpuss is a 1974 UK children's BBC television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Other characters include the mice ornaments from the mouse organ, Madeline the rag doll, Gabriel a toad and Professor Yaffle a wooden bookend shaped as a woodpecker. They all live in a Victorian or Edwardian shop owned by a girl called Emily. The shop is full of lost or broken items so the original owners can come and find them again. Whenever Emily found something new she brings it into the shop and recites a verse that brings the characters to life to explore and repair the object:

"Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss Old Fat Furry Catpuss Wake up and look at this thing that I bring Wake up, be bright, be golden and light Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing"

Although only 13 episodes of the show were made, it remains fondly remembered, and has often been repeated in the UK. All of the puppets used are also preserved and often travel around various museums.

Bagpuss's Perfect Day which was a special programme on CBBC on Choice featuring all the famous faces to read the story and broadcasted from 2000.

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