Bagpuss turns 50 years old and is still as popular as ever (UK) 12/Feb/2024

Bagpuss, the most magical, saggy, old, cloth cat in the whole wide world, is 50. The children’s show first aired on 12 February 1974 and featured its co-creator’s daughter, Emily. Made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, Bagpuss lived in a shop that was a home for lost property. “It makes me feel very old because he’s 50 and obviously I was about seven when they took the photographs,“ Emily, now 58, said. The stop motion animation had been filmed in Mr Firmin’s barn in Blean, just outside Canterbury, Kent. My favourite episode, the mice making chocolate biscuits with “butter beans and bread crumbs“, Those cheeky mice 😄 #bagpuss #childrenstelevision #UKtelevision