Postgate, (Richard) Oliver
- Postgate, (Richard) Oliver
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▪ 2009
British children's television writer and producer
born April 12, 1925, Hendon, Middlesex, Eng.
died Dec. 8, 2008, Broadstairs, Kent, Eng.
was cocreator—with puppeteer and animator Peter Firmin—of some of Britain's most beloved children's programming. Postgate held a variety of jobs before being hired to design, write, and narrate Alexander the Mouse (1958). After Firmin joined the show as an animator, the duo formed their own production company, Smallfilms, based in a disused cowshed near Canterbury. Their charming stop-action programs included The Journey of Master Ho (1958), Ivor the Engine (1959–64; revived in colour 1976–77), The Saga of Noggin the Nog (1959–65; revived in colour 1982), Pingwings (1961), The Pogles and Pogles' Wood (1965–68), The Clangers (1969–74), and, most notably, Bagpuss, a 13-episode show that debuted in 1973 and was broadcast repeatedly until the late 1980s. Bagpuss, a pink-and-white-striped cloth cat, was later voted the favourite British children's television character of all time.
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