Oliver Postgate was the co-creator and narrator of some classic childrens TV series, Including Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine & The Clangers. Recently he sadly passed away, so as a tribute here, courtsey of YouTube, are some episodes from one of his most famous creations The Clangers:
I’ve really enjoyed eeing all those utterly charming episodes of Ivor the Engine again, they brought back some happy childhood memories – I’ve started to feel really nostalgic, thanks to YouTube I can go back and revisit some of the stuff I enjoyed as a kid.
Anyway here are episodes 7 to 12 of Ivor the Engine
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpscakEztA
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbEUrJeeo0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NBrFNn36Q0A
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=49xz4oWo9Ww
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xaU3B5_SS5M
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdZ1FGFDh0
Here is my tribute to Oliver Postgate the co-creator of many classic children’s Television series such as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Noggin the Nog, Pogles’ Wood, Ivor the Engine, and many more, who sadly passed away recently.
He was born in Hendon, Middlesex on 12 April 1925, and married his wife Prudence Myers in 1957, whith whom he had three children, sadly though she died in 1982 and His partner during the last years of his life was Naomi Linnell. He is survived by three sons and three step-sons.
As the co-creator of the animated programmes , Oliver Postgate was one of a handful of pioneers who turned children’s television into an art form and whose legacy is a warm nostalgia felt by grown-ups today. His calm tones were familiar as narrator of the stories, which he wrote himself and were brought to visual reality by the artist and puppeteer Peter Firmin.
Here are episodes 1 to 6 of one of Oliver Postgate’s best known series Ivor the Engine courtesy of YouTube
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWk0BCeblQ
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZMNyscPcg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2j_RI2rL0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hFcDe4ETPv0
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT3ZFG71QZg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FZHKkHOlzl8
