Magpie (1968)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Rating
- 8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a children's magazine show that aired on British TV from 1968 to 1980. It covered popular culture and everyday topics in a hip style that aimed to compete with Blue Peter.
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What happens
Magpie is a British children's television programme shown on ITV from 30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980. It was a magazine format show, intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but it attempted to be more "hip", focusing more on popular culture. The show's creators, Lewis Rudd and Sue Turner, named the programme Magpie, as a reference to the magpie's habit of collecting small items and also because of "mag" being evocative of "magazine" and "pie" being evocative of a collection of ingredients. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Picture Page (1936)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.