Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestEmily brings in a piece of cloth, which Charlie Mouse identifies as a house for a rag doll, leading to a several rag jokes from the mice! They fold up the cloth so that Bagpuss can use it as a thinking cap, and create the story of Uncle Feedle, which Gabriel and Madeleine sing along to.
Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms. The title character was, "An old, saggy, cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams." Although only 13 episodes of the show were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was regularly repeated in the UK for thirteen years. In 1999 Bagpuss topped a BBC poll for the UK's favourite children's TV programme.
Practical Effects
Hand-stitched puppets that look like they love you back.
Score
Gabriel's toad-banjo slaps harder than it has any right to.
Production
Two genius weirdos made this in a barn. Perfection.
Creators
Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Only 13 episodes exist because Smallfilms believed in stopping while perfect. The BBC repeated them for 26 years anyway.
Oliver Postgate recorded all voices in his father-in-law's garden shed. The mice were knitted by his actual wife.
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