Heads and Tails

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This BBC children's series mixes real footage of animals with funny conversations and songs. It highlights silly animal features like the proboscis monkey's nose to teach preschoolers about nature.

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What happens

Heads and Tails is a BBC TV's children's programme written and produced by Michael Cole with voices and music by Derek Griffiths. The 15 minute programme designed for pre-school children, featured archive and specially shot footage of domestic and wild animals. The narration was interspersed with comical conversations between animals and songs, often referring to certain animal characteristics in humorous ways, such as the nose of the proboscis monkey. The programme was first aired on BBC in 1977 with a second series in 1979. In 1980 a vinyl LP was realised with songs written by Cole and performed by Derek Griffiths. Cole and Griffiths had previously worked together on Play School and Bod. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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