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The Magic Key | |
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Genre | Adventure Children's |
Based on | Characters from the Oxford Reading Tree |
Written by | Diane Redmond Jan Page Mellie Buse James Mason Jocelyn Stevenson Lucy Daniel Raby Julie Middleton Joe Boyle |
Directed by | Tony Collingwood |
Voices of | Sophie Aldred Maria Darling David de Keyser Kate Harbour Adam Henderson David Holt Gary Martin Richard Pearce Emma Tate |
Composer | Roger Jackson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Producer | Christopher O'Hare |
Running time | 14 minutes 9 minutes (without educational segments; CBBC and CBeebies broadcast) |
Production companies | Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment Limited HIT Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One BBC Two |
Release | 25 September 2000 11 June 2001 | –
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The Magic Key is a British educational animated television series based on the "Biff, Chip and Kipper" stories from the Oxford Reading Tree published by Oxford University Press, originally written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta. The series is co-produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment Limited and HIT Entertainment in association with the BBC[1] and aired within the BBC Schools strand on BBC Two from 2000 until 2001.