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your thoughts, please, on noggin the nog-oh and oliver postgate's autobiography

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 13:01

now, I didn't have a tv growing up, so all this bagpuss/clangers business is a bit lost on me, but dp very much into them and I do like the drawings and the welsh accents.

Now

First, has anyone got firsthand experience of this nogmaia business

and second, has anyone read oliver postgate's autobiography, called, I think, "seeing things" and is it any good? Here it is on amazon seeing things

thanks

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FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:19

yes

in a minute

I did shower this morning btw, this is a supplementary shower

TheDaVinciCod · 22/10/2006 13:19

go away and shower

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:18

Oh GOD why am I sitting here discussing children's animated characters from the 70s when I should be having a shower and getting ready for this flipping party

I am in denial about doing it, does anyone else want to entertain 30 children for 40 mins please?

norkmaiden · 22/10/2006 13:18

Hmm, dredging memory for recall of Nogbad - think he had a scary laugh?
Look for the one about the ice dragon, that's good.

TheDaVinciCod · 22/10/2006 13:17

his tail is his usp
s fluffy
aso funny

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:17

Yes I agree Basil Brush is totally marvellous

TheDaVinciCod · 22/10/2006 13:16

now basil is a nother thing
i loved him
stuill makes me lol

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 13:15

am rofl at having a character called "nogbad the bad"

am easily pleased

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FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:15

Nobody else is bloodthirsty except Ivor may be objectionable to Indian people, or indeed Welsh people because of the accents

Erm, was Pogles Wood by Postgate and Firmin as well? I was too young for them.

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 13:14

oh christ, they also created frigging basil brush

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FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:13

I put it on to check it out when we got it and Nogbad the Bad was being rather threatening

Perhaps that was not representative of the whole series. I was not that keen as a child although have an original copy of "Noggin and the Moon Mouse" which I adore. The Moon Mouse was a sort of prototype Clanger, with a tail (oh lord am turning into some Oliver Postgate geek now)

TheDaVinciCod · 22/10/2006 13:13

i am too young to rmemebr t all that

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 13:13

is noggin the nog seriously bloodthirsty?

What about the clangers?

Is it the films, or the books that are bloodthirsy, or both?

What do they do that is bloodthirsy?

oh ivor is totally wonderful.

Are there any more? Ivor, clangers, noggin the nog, and bagpuss, is that it?

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norkmaiden · 22/10/2006 13:08

bloodthirsty, really??

The little films (some black and white!) were all about, iirc, things like: dragons who get too cold/hot (can't remember which), buried treasure, climbing glaciers, strange squawking birds called Draculus (? ok, maybe bloodlusting name, but he was a sweetie non?)...

bum, have forgotten too much of Noggin, now where's that dvd...

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:06

Actually I have an audio tape of Noggin and you can probably have that if you want it. It is a bit too scary for us so we stick to Ivor

norkmaiden · 22/10/2006 13:05

Noggin the nog totally charming!

My little bro used to have a video - wonder it you can get dvds these days...
Have only seen the cartoons, rather than books, but the characters/illustrations are lovely.

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 13:05

Fancy seeing you here filly

Yes I have it, but there is no way on God's earth I am lending it to you after that other thread

They are all marvellous but Bagpuss and The Clangers are the best. Noggin the Nog is a bit bloodthirsty for little ones, IMO, but some of the books are lovely if you can find them