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Camberwick Green (1966) is a British children's television series, originally seen on BBC One, featuring stop-motion puppets. It was written and produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals were provided by Brian Cant. There are 13 fifteen-minute colour episodes produced by Gordon Murray Pictures and FilmFair. Image File history File links WindyMiller. ...
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1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Childrens television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ...
BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC, and the first in the United Kingdom. ...
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A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ...
Gordon Murray (born 1921) is a British television producer and puppeteer. ...
Brian Cant (Born 12 July 1933 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England) is an actor, television presenter and writer. ...
Each episode begins with a shot of a musical box which rotates while playing a tune. The lid of the box then opens and one of the puppet characters emerges. After a brief introduction to the character, the background appears and the episode's story begins. Each story has the character at its centre. A musical box (or music box) is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to strike the tuned teeth of a steel comb. ...
The series is set in the small, picturesque (and completely fictitious) village of Camberwick Green, Trumptonshire which is inhabited by such interesting characters as Police Constable McGarry (Number 452), Mickey Murphy the baker, Dr. Mopp who makes house calls in his vintage car, and the town gossip, Mrs. Honeyman, who is always seen carrying her baby. Just outside the village lives Jonathan Bell, owner of a 'modern mechanical farm', who has a friendly rivalry with Windy Miller, owner of a clanking old windmill and a firm believer in old-fashioned farming methods. Mr. Dagenham, a travelling salesman who drives an open-topped convertible occasionally appears, as do the staff and cadets of Pippin Fort, a nearby military academy run by Captain Snort and Sgt. Major Grout. Almost all the characters have their own theme songs. There is one other character who never appears in the stories: an unnamed clown or pierrot who turns a roller caption to display the show's opening and closing credits. A Dutch tower windmill, sporting sails, surrounded by tulips A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ...
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Each week the villagers undergo such domestic crises as a shortage of flour; a swarm of bees; a water shortage; and rumours of an unwanted electrical sub-station being built in the village. At the end of each episode the narrator bids farewell to the puppet character who was seen at the beginning, and the latter disappears back into the musical box.
Camberwick Green is notable for having no overt fantasy content (apart from the musical box). For the most part it is simply about ordinary people doing ordinary things, and perhaps for that reason it has remained popular to this day. Unfortunately the original masters seem to have been lost; most of the surviving episodes tend to suffer from scratched, wobbly or grainy picture quality and a muffled soundtrack. Camberwick Green is available on DVD along with Trumpton and Chigley, its two sequels in a similar vein. Trumpton (1967) is a stop-motion childrens television show from the producers of Camberwick Green. ...
Chigley (1969) is the third and final stop-motion childrens television series in Gordon Murrays Trumptonshire sequence. ...
Modern Use
Camberwick Green was spoofed for a 1988 edition of Spitting Image, as "Gamberwick Greenbelt". The 90-second sketch had a puppet Nicholas Ridley, described as 'old Nicky Ridley, the village idiot', demolishing the village for redevelopment with the aid of a bulldozer. Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdoms ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. ...
There are two Nicholas Ridleys: Nicholas Ridley (martyr) Nicholas Ridley (politician) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The character Windy Miller and his famous windmill appeared in September 2005 along with some other Camberwick Green characters in commercials for Quaker Oats on UK television. The puppets and setting are all re-creations because Murray destroyed the originals in the 1970s. Original narrator Brian Cant auditioned to do the voiceover for the commercials, before the job was instead given to Charlie Higson. Character in childrens TV series Camberwick Green. ...
A Dutch tower windmill, sporting sails, surrounded by tulips A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. ...
Quaker Oats Company makes many types and flavors of oatmeal. ...
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Charlie Higson (born, 1958 in Frome, Somerset) is an English actor and producer, an author, television writer and a comedian. ...
Episode five of the second series of BBC's Life on Mars features a recreation of the opening of Camberwick Green, with a puppet of the show's main character Sam Tyler (John Simm) emerging from the musical box and despairing over his colleague, Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), who can be seen in puppet form 'kicking in a nonce' at the end. This later leads to Sam to threaten Hunt, telling him to "Stay out of Camberwick Green!". It emerges that Sam is tripping after being accidentally overdosed in his hospital bed. Again the voice-over was not supplied by Brian Cant, but is delivered in a similar style. Life on Mars is an International Emmy-winning British television drama series, which was first shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. ...
John Ronald Simm (born July 10, 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and musician. ...
Philip Glenister (born February 10, 1963 in London, England) is a British actor, the son of director John Glenister and the brother of actor Robert Glenister. ...
In the UK, the term nonce (sometimes spelled nonse) is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser, and thus as an insult. ...
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Credits - Created by: Gordon Murray
- Music: Freddie Phillips
- Narration: Brian Cant
- Settings: Margaret Brownfoot, Andrew Brownfoot
- Animation: Bob Bura, John Hardwick, Pasquale Ferrari
- Puppets: Gordon Murray
- Produced by: Gordon Murray Puppets Ltd
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