The Gublins

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

A British stop-motion children's series from the 1970s. Each five-minute episode tells a folk tale in rhyming verse, narrated by the animator himself. Chimp-like creatures called Gublins appear in these tall stories.

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What happens

The Gublins (also known as The Gublin Legends) is a stop-motion children's television show broadcast between 1977 and 1979. It was the final animated series made by British animator Gordon Murray, the creator of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and was shown as part of the Saturday morning children's TV show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on BBC One. Each episode was 5 minutes long with Murray introducing each one directly to camera. The series related various folk tales told in verse. The Gublins themselves were chimp-like creations (the word "Gublin" is a pun on the humanoid creature "goblin") that featured in a series of Tall Stories, narrated in rhyming couplets to a simple acoustic soundtrack provided by Freddie Phillips. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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