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Dappledown Farm | |
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Genre | Family Puppetry Children's television series Educational |
Created by | Catherine Kirkwood and Nick Wilson |
Directed by | Adrian Hedley Catherine Kirkwood Nick Wilson |
Creative director | Nikky Smedley |
Starring | Brian Cant Marcus Clarke Helena Smee Sally Preisig David Alan Barclay Joe Greco Katherine Smee Dave Taylor Tim Jones Geoff Felix Nick Wilson |
Composer | Peter Gosling |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 5 |
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Production companies | Clear Idea Television United Productions (1998-1999) |
Original release | |
Network | TV-am (ITV) (1990-1992) Channel 5 (1998-1999) |
Release | 11 March 1990 1999 | –
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Dappledown Farm is a British children's television programme, starring and presented by Brian Cant and a series of puppets. It began airing on 11th March 1990 on TV-am[1] until 27th December 1992[2] and was originally broadcast on Sunday mornings. After TVAM's closure, the re-runs were broadcast on The Children's Channel in 1993[3] before it was later moved to Channel 5's Milkshake! in 1997[4] when the series got rebooted in 1998.
Despite the fact that production of the show stopped in 1999, it was still shown in repeats until November 2004.[5]
In the show's narrative, Cant's character Brian was the owner of the Dappledown Farm. For each episode, he introduced feature cartoons from a studio farm set.[6] For example, in the first episode, Brian told the story of animals on the farm that hatched from an egg such as birds, snakes, and tortoises.[7] In addition to the puppets, the show also integrated stories that involve real-life animals.
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