Nigel Planer
The Magic Roundabout (1965)
Season 2
The Magic Roundabout is a French-British children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot, with the help of Ivor Wood and Wood's French wife, Josiane. The series was originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF, originally in black-and-white. Having originally rejected the series as "charming... but difficult to dub into English", the BBC later produced a version of the series using the original stop motion animation footage with new English-language scripts, written and performed by Eric Thompson, which bore little relation to the original storylines. This version, broadcast in 441 five-minute-long episodes from 18 October 1965 to 25 January 1977, was a great success and attained cult status, and when in 1967 it was moved from the slot just before the evening news to an earlier children's viewing time, adult viewers complained to the BBC.
Released Oct. 18, 1965
Episode 5 min
2+
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Kids
Keywords: imdb.carousel, imdb.park, imdb.anthropomorphic-animal, imdb.talking-animal, imdb.stop-motion-animation, imdb.jack-in-the-box, imdb.cow + 15 more, imdb.snail, imdb.rabbit, imdb.gardener, imdb.spanish, imdb.narrator, imdb.pun, imdb.talking-train, imdb.inanimate-object-comes-to-life, imdb.cult-favorite, imdb.dog, imdb.magical-carousel, imdb.cult-tv, imdb.puppet, imdb.surrealism, imdb.girl
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English,
French
S2E1 - Episode 1
S2E2 - Episode 2
S2E3 - Episode 3
S2E4 - Episode 4
S2E5 - Episode 5
S2E6 - Episode 6
S2E7 - Episode 7
S2E8 - Episode 8
S2E9 - Episode 9
S2E10 - Episode 10
S2E11 - Episode 11
S2E12 - Episode 12
S2E13 - Episode 13
S2E14 - Episode 14
S2E15 - Episode 15
S2E16 - Episode 16
S2E17 - Episode 17
S2E18 - Episode 18
S2E19 - Episode 19
S2E20 - Episode 20
S2E21 - Episode 21
S2E22 - Episode 22
S2E23 - Episode 23
S2E24 - Episode 24
S2E25 - Episode 25
S2E26 - Episode 26
S2E27 - Episode 27
S2E28 - Episode 28
S2E29 - Episode 29
S2E30 - Episode 30
S2E31 - Episode 31
S2E32 - Episode 32
S2E33 - Episode 33
S2E34 - Episode 34
S2E35 - Episode 35
S2E36 - Episode 36
S2E37 - Episode 37
S2E38 - Episode 38
S2E39 - Episode 39
S2E40 - Episode 40
S2E41 - Episode 41
S2E42 - Episode 42
S2E43 - Episode 43
S2E44 - Episode 44
S2E45 - Episode 45
S2E46 - Episode 46
S2E47 - Episode 47
S2E48 - Episode 48
S2E49 - Episode 49
S2E50 - Episode 50
S2E51 - Episode 51
S2E52 - Episode 52
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 5 min.
Season Runtime: 5 min.
Released: Oct. 18, 1965
Last Air Date: July 12, 1964, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-Y / 2+
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