Heartland

Creator of Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine and The Clangers and Pogles (Wood) etc has slipped off this mortal coil.

RIP old man

R.I.P indeed.

I was only watching The Clangers with the wee man the other day.

Man, I loved Bagpuss and Ivor when I was a kid

The voice of my childhood.

cheerio Oliver.

Only last week the three year old eschewed Wall E in favour of ivor the engine.

toot toot!

markfiend wrote:The voice of my childhood.

Well put Mark.

A sad day indeed.

driving at 80 mph overtaking was not the moment to hear that news and fill up. rip, king of animation

I used to watch all that stuff as a kid as well.
And helped my friends reconcile with a bottle of cheap vodka and a Clangers DVD.

Good times. RIP.

Aw

They do not make 'em like that anymore

"Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him"

We all did.

R.I.P

Ramone wrote:"Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him"

We all did.

R.I.P

Hear hear. Formative memories and cultural touchstones. Only the other day I was in a meeting with some heavyweight clients, one of whom was English and about my age (or maybe a little older). He mentioned that a mistake had been made, "someone dropped a clanger" - under my breath I said "Oh dear, blue string pudding everywhere, eh?" Instant connection - spent the next 5 minutes reminiscing about marvellous mechanical mouse organs (and Morph).
While the man himself is gone, his creations will live forever - surely no greater basis for immortality.

Um, Evil, you do know that Morph wasn't anything to do with Oliver Postgate, don't you?

Anyway, I'll add my condolences to all of our childhoods. A great loss to the industry. Hopefully there'll be an honorary BAFTA or something next year.

stufarq wrote:Um, Evil, you do know that Morph wasn't anything to do with Oliver Postgate, don't you?

Yep, but Morph is up there in the pantheon of childhood memories shared by British people everywhere.

And an important forerunner of Wallace and Grommit, who are returning this Christmas.

I can remember as a nipper getting up really early on a Sunday to watch Bagpuss on BBC and that was at that time the only Sunday morning kids TV.