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Title: Oliver Postgate RIP
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 09, 2008, 08:33:56 AM

Oliver Postgate (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7772620.stm)

Surely deserves his own thread.

Noggin the Nog

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPqp99r.jpg&hash=f26d3a4d7ac0c7e1d021778d0010066a259bfa9e) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pqp99r)

Ivor the Engine

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPqpe8J.jpg&hash=e74ab4af352f737287a090d05e7d87c8ba96ed67) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pqpe8J)

The Clangers

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPqpqCr.jpg&hash=dd41e447b7eb7dd305e36fa99e681ca2ecef1018) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqpqCr)

Title: Re: Oliver Postgate RIP
Post by: Snoopy on December 09, 2008, 09:13:25 AM

And of course:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUdgRR0SxA


My first family's childhood ~ we watched them all ......... what went wrong? sad24:

Title: Re: Oliver Postgate RIP
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2008, 09:28:44 AM

The most amazing voice!  cloud9:

Shame he was 83...  whistle:

Title: Re: Oliver Postgate RIP
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 09, 2008, 04:53:20 PM

A great shame.  cry:

I was a huge 'Clangers' fan and Mrs DS#2 was forever known as the 'Soup Dragon' after a memorable row in the kitchen. redface:

Title: Re: Oliver Postgate RIP
Post by: Snoopy on December 09, 2008, 04:54:37 PM

 lol:

My first kids used to call their mother the Soup Dragon ~ for much the same reasons. It's a funny old world innit?