| Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House | |
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| Genre | Animation Children's drama |
| Created by | Oliver Postgate |
| Voices of | Una Stubbs Anna Calder-Marshall Nancy Gair Olwen Griffiths Oliver Postgate |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Oliver Postgate |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company | Smallfilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC |
| Release | 1984 – 1986 |
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Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House is a 1984 stop motion animated television series produced by Smallfilms, directed and narrated by Oliver Postgate. It is based on Rumer Godden's The Dolls' House, originally published in 1947, and focuses on the toys in a Victorian dolls' house belonging to sisters Emily and Charlotte Dane. The programme debuted on BBC1 in the UK on 6 February 1984.
The series has a very dark edge, as the dolls wish very hard that good things will happen and that they will not fall on misfortune. The series opens with the phrase "Dolls are not like people. People choose, but dolls can only be chosen".