The best childrens TV programme ever...

[sbisson]

...was not Bagpuss, though it did come from the same stable.

It was the wonderful Ivor The Engine.

"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..."

What more could you want? Ivor had everything: North Wales, choirs, coal mines, narrow gauge steam railways, elephants, and (of course) dragons!

And now, if you have a colour printer (and a toilet roll), you can make your very own Ivor!

Comments

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

Ooh no! That violin gave me the creeps.

[muninnhuginn]

The whole aura of voyeurism--that deerstalker-clad man with the binoculars for a start--was faintly odd. Bu the baby hedgehog with the hiccups was classic.

So glad I'm not the only one who remembers it tho': I was beginning to think it was a figment of my imagination.

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Ludwig was brilliant. Wish it was available on video.

[muninnhuginn]

It was superb. I even overcame my general dislike of LvB and learned all the tunes by ear on the flute.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I remember it well!

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

I'm scared by the fact that it was a figment of somebody's imagination in the first place!

Now you've reminded me of the man with the binoculars, I'm going to have to go and hide in the airing cupboard with a bottle of vodka until the memories fade.