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A Super Fun #giftidea Rare Vintage 2 October 1971 Playhour and Robin Comic - The Magic Roundabout - Pinky And Perky -Mr Toad - Unusual, Nostalgic Birth Year Gift https://t.co/5VBFQjxcZk via @Etsy #VintageComics #Playhour #Robin #ChildrensComics #TheMagicRoundabout #1971Gift #70snostalgia
A Super Fun and Nostalgic #giftidea Rare Vintage 2 October 1971 Playhour and Robin Comic - The Magic Roundabout - Pinky And Perky -Mr Toad - Unusual Birth Year Gift https://t.co/5HQsKioQAo via @Etsy #VintageComics #KidsComics #1971Gift #OctoberBirthday #TheMagicRoundabout #Playhour
Today's #retrogaming on the #ZXSpectrum #TheMagicRoundabout, build a house and eat sugar. Enjoy those graphics!!!
NEW LISTING What a fun #giftidea Rare Vintage 16 October 1971 Playhour and Robin Comic - The Magic Roundabout - Pinky And Perky -Mr Toad - Unusual, Nostalgic Birth Year Gift https://t.co/bgepTZn5Hu via @Etsy #VintageComics #ChildrensComics #1971Gift #TheMagicRoundabout #nostalgia
NEW LISTING A Super Fun #giftidea Rare Vintage 5 April 1969 Playhour and Robin Comic - The Magic Roundabout - Pinky And Perky -Mr Toad Fun, Unusual Nostalgic Birth Year Gift https://t.co/9othnS5nMJ via @Etsy #VintageComics #1969Gift #Playhour #Robin #TheMagicRoundabout #PinkyAndPerky
A Happy 54th Anniversary to the UK Release of the Magic Roundabout film, Dougal and the Blue Cat! #70sMovies #TheMagicRoundabout #DougalandtheBlueCat https://t.co/ERS1XiUji2 https://t.co/knYS85XFFw
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#TheMagicRoundabout was a cult childrenโs television series that followed the surreal adventures of a group of animal and human friends in a psychedelic, magical garden. Originally a French stop-motion animation titled Le Manรจge Enchantรฉ, it became a massive success in Britain during the late 1960s and 1970s due to its eccentric characters and witty dialogue.
The British version of the show was created because the #BBC refused to use a direct translation of the original French scripts. The presenter Eric Thompson was given the silent film footage and told to invent entirely new stories and personalities for the characters based solely on their visual appearances.
Eric Thompson provided the voices for every single character in the program and recorded the dialogue for each five-minute episode in a single take. He never watched the French episodes to understand the original plots, which resulted in the British version having a much more satirical and adult tone than the French creator had intended.
The character of Dougal the dog was originally a very minor figure in the French series, but Thompson decided to make him the central protagonist for the British audience. He based Dougalโs grumpy and cynical personality on a stereotypical British civil servant, which helped the show appeal to adults as much as children.
The show became so popular with adult viewers that the BBC eventually moved its broadcast slot from the afternoon to a time just before the evening news. It was one of the first children's programs to achieve a genuine "crossover" audience, with millions of office workers rushing home to catch the surreal humor before the daily headlines.
The stop-motion puppets were incredibly small and were filmed on sets that were barely larger than a standard tabletop. The character of #Zebedee, the jack-in-the-box, had to be animated with great care because his spring made him very unstable, often requiring the animators to pin his base to the set with hidden needles.
A persistent urban legend suggested that the showโs surreal nature was a coded reference to drug culture, but the creators always denied this theory. In reality, the bright colors and strange situations were simply a reflection of the creative freedom given to the French animators and the imaginative storytelling of the British writing team
A Fun #giftforher Rare Vintage From 1st June 1974 Bonnie Weekly Comic - Comic Strip Stories - Collectable - Childhood Nostalgia - Unusual Retro Birth Year Gift https://t.co/mymIwuKDxe via @Etsy #VintageComics #Bonnie #1974Gift #JuneBirthday #TheMagicRoundabout #Florence #kitschy
Happy 30th and 20th Anniversaries to The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper and Doogal
#Crossover #Casper #TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresofCasper #TheMagicRoundabout #Doogal
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A Happy 21st Anniversary to The Magic Roundabout! #2000sMovies #3DAnimation #TheMagicRoundabout #Doogal https://t.co/spsOEzrPYv https://t.co/c8mCOPHA3e https://t.co/KxkWKT0uvX
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