Ragtime (1973)

Genre

kids

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 26 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This children's series uses songs, stories and word games to entertain. Presenters Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris bring out puppets from a green bag, including characters named after foods like Mr Porridge and Mrs Custard.

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What happens

Ragtime is a children's television series created by Michael Cole and presented by Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris. The programme features play with words, songs, stories and puppets. Puppets made by Joanne Cole emerge from the green Ragtime Bag, including wooden spoons with faces drawn on them. These are named Mr Porridge, Mr Curry, Mr Jelly, Miss Sponge, Mrs Custard, Uncle Casserole and Mrs Ragamuffin. Other puppet regulars include Dax and Sniff (both dogs), Humbug the tiger and Bubble, a cushion-shaped toy. The music was provided by Peter Gosling and Dave Moses. In 1973 the series won a Society of Film and Television Award (later known as a BAFTA) for Best Children's Programme. Although a book and record were produced at the time, no episodes are currently available on DVD. Although regularly repeated until 1980, only eight of the twenty six episodes remain in the BBC's archive, due to a decision in the early 1990s to wipe the master tapes of many 1970s children's programmes [1]. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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