Shark Bytes

Bagpuss will always be "relevant." My nieces love him and I believe I remember watching him in the 70's or 80's on public television.

Loved this show. "but Emily loved him." is one of the most memorable lines from kids TV. I grew up with this playschool, thunderbirds, magic roundabout and other Children's favourites. Agree the late 60s and early 70s were the golden era and count myself lucky to grow up then.

There was only the one thirteen part series so it didn't have time to jump the shark The forerunner of Bagpuss was another Oliver Postgate/Peter Firmin series called Pogle's Wood which is the best young children's programme of all time

ANYONE WHO'S EVER SEE EVEN ONE EPISODE OF THIS FANTASTIC PROGRAMME WILL KNOW IT NEVER JUMPED. OLIVER POSTGATE IS A GENIUS. HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS FAB.

THE greatest childrens tv ever. Just hearing Oliver Postgate's voice will instill an awestruck hush in an entire generation. I really hope that someone in modern children's tv reads this, cos it's so SO important: Oliver spoke QUIETLY and made us children LISTEN. We payed attention because we wanted to know what he had to say. I could cry when I think of what all that modern, fast cutting rubbish is doing to childrens' brains. Every program aimed at the young these days appears to me to be doing nothing but promote the consumption of ecstasy. All that pounding music straight from Ibiza and the promotion of bogus, trans-Atlantic urban gang culture. What the fuck are they doing to our children. When Postgate's shows were on, children everywhere would shut up, sit still and pay attention. You just try getting the poor bastards reared on asinine crap like fecking Barney to do that! It really makes me angry that beautiful, enchanting, gentle shows like Bagpuss are taken off the air and replaced with obscene, harmful rubbish like the bastard Tweenies. And why? Cos Bagpuss is not 'relevant' and 'inclusive' and 'multi ethnic'. Our society is going to hell in a hand cart and modern childrens' tv is pushing it there.

Bagpuss remains one of the golden age of children's programmes from the BBC in the 60's and 70's. It never jumped as it remained fresh and innocent throughout it's entire run. Let's hope the Yanks never get their hands on it.

Oliver Postgate is a man of integrity and principle. Bagpuss remained simply spell-binding until its final show. The phrase "but Emily loved him..." has haunted me for years, to the extent that I have always secretly wished for a girlfriend called Emily.

Bagpuss never jumped because there weren't enough episodes made. Given a $1M dollar budget I'm sure that we'd have seen a summer special including Bagpuss on a Harley leaping over that shark. Thank the Lord the Yanks never got their hands on this. God bless the Children's BBC of the 70's.