Bagpuss

Bagpuss is a children's television series, first broadcast on the BBC in 1974 and created by Oliver Post gate, which among other things also created The Clangers . It is an entertainment programme with a toy hangover called ' Bagpuss ' in the lead role, and was filmed with the technique of stop-motion. Bagpuss contains in each episode with one or more songs, rhymes and puns. Thirteen episodes were made, each a quarter of an hour's time. Bagpuss was a very popular program: in 1999 ended up as first in a poll by the BBC to her best children's program of all time. The dolls as well as the pictures with which the program begins and ends, were created by illustrator Peter Firmin . The girl Emily from Bagpuss was Firmins daughter Emily. ==Characters[ Edit] == ==Structure[ Edit] == Bagpuss begins in sepia and in the style of around the year 1900. The girl Emily has a shop called Bagpuss & co., that is to say, a showcase. In this showcase saves them all kinds of things that they found, that those who they have lost they possibly can retrieve. At the beginning of each episode has Emily found something new (an old bottle, a ballet shoe, a pillow case etc.) and places it in the window before Bagpuss. Then she speaks the magic words:
 * Bagpuss: a fabric cat, white with pink stripes. He is what worn and are seams come loose ("baggy and a bit loose at the seams"). Bagpuss usually sleeps; only when he's awake, all other characters as well. Bagpuss has magical thoughts: when he appear to think, his thoughts somewhere in a balloon over his head and they are real. In this way he can fix all sorts of broken objects. Sometimes he need a special pet to help: ' I shall need my thinking cap! '. (' A thinking cap ' is an English expression.)
 * The mice of the mouse organ: when Bagpuss sleeps, the mice ornamental carved image on a mouse organ, a mechanical musical instrument that works with roles. When they live, are the mice enthusiastic animals that all objects brought by Emily cleaning and attached a happy song to the tune of Sumer is icumen in singing. The names of the mice are not known, except of one, which is called Charlie Mouse . This has often as first by what the object is, which invariably Bagpuss replies, ' Do you, little Charlie Mouse? '. When the mice organ pumped, explains: ' The marvellous mechanical mouse organ Charlie solemnly! ' and makes a bow.The other mice pick up a partituurrol and lifting them up, which they call ' heave heave heave,,! '. The mice speak with very high beep voices.
 * Madeleine: a lapjespop. Madeleine sits in a Chair and is wise. She admonishes the mice often when that great work. Madeleine sings a song and has a box with sewing thread and needles.
 * Gabriel: a path. On each occasion he has a banjo and sings a song that has to do with the topic of the episode.
 * Professor Yaffle: an old Woodpecker. He is a wooden bookend with glasses. Yaffle is a highly respected and very erudite scholar, which most thoughts of Bagpuss and songs of the mice is silly because they don't make sense. (He does not know what is a prima ballerina, to the amazement of all the others.) Are stop expression is: ' Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle! ', by which he means that he will find something quite incredible.

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, Old, fat, furry cat-puss, Wake up and look at the thing that I bring, Wake up and be bright, Be golden and light, Bagpuss, oh, hear what I sing!

Bagpuss wakes up to this, and the sepia image changes in color. Also the other characters come to life, and professor Yaffle climbs of his books down to the new item to inspect. The characters then discuss the subject matter could be; usually it's dirty or broken, which the mice in action shooting to clean it or fix it. Then Gabriel a Madeleine or idea about what the subject might be and they sing a song about it. Sometimes however, Bagpuss has a better idea, and to be able to convert it into reality, he may or may not be thinking cap necessary. These songs and thoughts are usually accompanied by the mice on their mice organ. Professor Yaffle is usually very skeptical, because most songs are illogical. However, where the mice are unable to repair the object, helps only a magical thought of Bagpuss. Eventually they discover what the object is and places them in the window. Then Bagpuss very tired; When he falls asleep, times all other characters again in their old state. At the end of each episode are again in the mice ornaments changed, Madeleine and Gabriel just dolls and is professor Yaffle a bookend in the form of a woodpecker. The image is then changed again in sepia. Each episode ends with the words:

Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, but Emily loved him. ==Influence[ Edit] == Bagpuss contains many songs that are based on old folkmelodietjes or classical compositions, such as Sinterklaas song ' enough, who's right there, kind'ren? ' in the episode The Giant, or the Humoresque by Antonín Dvořák. The mice song is on the world's oldest known canon based, Sumer is icumen in. Bagpuss songs are often absurd, as over an elephant without ears, or a King whose throne is too cold (The Bony King of Nowhere) and for whom mice a pillow knit. Bagpuss was repeatedly repeated, and the figure of the hangover was also sold as toys. The original dolls from the program are kept in a museum in Canterbury .