| Pogles' Wood | |
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| Written by | Oliver Postgate |
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| Narrated by | Oliver Postgate |
| Music by | Vernon Elliott |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Production company | Smallfilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 29 July 1965 – 2 January 1968 |
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Pogles' Wood (in its first series it was entitled The Pogles) is an animated British children's television show produced by Smallfilms between 1965 and 1967, first broadcast by the BBC between 1965 and 1968 (but repeated regularly until the early 1970s).[1]
The original six episode series, The Pogles, was broadcast from 29 July 1965, within the children's magazine programme Clapperboard. The 26-episode sequel, Pogles Wood, was shown as part of the Watch with Mother strand, whose target audience was pre-school children (meaning, in the 1960s, children under 5 years of age): a somewhat younger audience than that for Clapperboard.[2]
The 32 episodes were filmed using stop-frame animation, in Peter Firmin's barn (not in a BBC television studio). All were made in black-and-white. The episodes were narrated by Oliver Postgate, who introduced the story (typically beginning each episode with the show's catchphrase, Now where shall we find the Pogles?) and also voiced several of the characters.