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Puffin's Pla(i)ce

Puffin's Pla(i)ce poster
Genre
children's television series
Country
United Kingdom

How it feels

A puffin mascot named Oscar hosts a birthday greetings show for a television station. The program ran for 50 years in the Channel Islands.

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What happens

Oscar Grosnez Corbière Claud Puffin, known as Oscar Puffin, is a television station mascot for ITV Channel Television. Oscar was the star of the birthday greetings programme Puffin's Pla(i)ce and was the last remaining ITV regional mascot to have an on-screen presence. His show was on television from 3 March 1963 until 15 September 2013. He was born on the island of Burhou in the Channel Islands. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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