Ragdolly Anna and the Bacon (Ragdolly Anna)
If the little dressmaker can't bring home the bacon, then maybe Ragdolly Anna can? First episode in a children's series with Pat Coombs and friend.
Anne Wood is the producer of some Britain's most memorable children's television series including Pob (1985-90), Teletubbies (1997-2001) (2015-) and In the Night Garden... (2007-09). In its innovative use of technology and considered approach to its young audience, this adaptation of Jean Kenwood's Ragdolly Anna books features many of the traits of her later successes. There's no explanation required for a ragdoll that can talk and walk the streets hunting for pork products - it's an everyday occurrence in the world of children's play.
Through a combination of basic puppetry and video effects of an actor in a doll costume, Ragdolly Anna leads her eventful life alongside the Little Dressmaker, Dummy and the Big White Cat. Pat Coombs is the perfect choice to play Anna's flatmate in their third-floor home, filmed at the Woolman Street Tenements in Leeds.
Ragdolly Anna has never been out on the street by herself before, but she
returns safely with the little dressmaker's lost shopping.
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Kid's TV
Our relationship with the small screen starts early in life, opening our square eyes to a heady mix of drama and comedy; fantasy and fact.
Dedicated children’s programming has been part of the television mix from its earliest years, growing from short intervals “For The Children” after WWII, to a plethora of standalone channels today. The start of the BBC’s long-running “Watch With Mother” series in 1953 set much of the template for pre-school television, blending puppets, song and animation, with the implicit expectation that mum - assumed to be a housewife - would supervise.
Catering for older children, meanwhile, sought to balance the kinds of programmes children want to watch with those their parents want them to see. Eventually a fuller menu of drama, comedy, factual and magazine programmes for children - in other words, versions of 'grown-up' programmes for 'small people' - came to fill the schedules of weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
Sadly, the segregation of children’s television to its own satellite, cable and digital channels has made its much less likely for adults to experience the frequent delights of kids’ TV. But our collection welcomes all ages! (Though please note that some programmes maybe flagged as unsuitable for young children.)
48 videos in this collection
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Diane's Panda Party [28/09/72]
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Animal Kwackers [09/10/75]
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Witches' Brew [28/12/72]
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Origami [09/04/70]
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Mr. Trimble [21/02/73]
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Gathercole Bunch
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The Distant Voice
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The Challenge
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Play It Again, Stewpot [25/07/74]
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Play It Again, Stewpot [05/09/74]
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A Handful of Songs [27/05/77]
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Saturday Scene Road Show [11/05/75]
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Big and Bigger
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Mickey the Demon Barber
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Kevin Goes to the Library
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Ragdolly Anna and the Bacon
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Britain in the Year 2000
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Delilah
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Zzzap! [19/02/93]
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Granny's Kitchen [26/05/77]
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Heavens Above [23/02/81]
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Moving In
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Nature Trail [16/05/83]
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Our Show [29/10/77]
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Peter Ustinov Tells Stories from Hans Andersen
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Quest of Eagles Episode 1 Sailor
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Sunny Side Up [28/04/82]
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The Children's Royal Variety Performance
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There's Nobody There
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Think Tank [18/08/81]
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Two Good Turns
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William Clears the Slums
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Gus Hunnybun
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One Day in the Life of Television
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Gus Honeybun Animation
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Gus Honeybun around Plymouth
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Modern Music
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Calendar Kids
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Sus
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School Around the Corner
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Tots TV [19/03/93]
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The Raggy Dolls [10/11/92]
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Skoosh Summer Special [14/07/98]
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Zig Zag (Prog 11)
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Stookie [15/09/85]
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Brushes
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