Welcome to my Bagpuss mice, episodes, and yawn chat!
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Intro Verse:
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing
ABOUT BAGPUSS
Created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postage
Opening Sequence: sepia-toned photographs a la Victorian or Edwardian
Narrated by Oliver Postage
Voices of Oliver Postage, Sandra Kerr, John Faulkner
Production Company: Smallfilms
Episodes: 13
Original Network: BBC1
Released: 1974
Emily Firmin played the young girl Emily, who enters the shop.
Outro Verse:
And so their work was done.
Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep
And, of course, when Bagpuss goes to sleep,
All his friends go to sleep too.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
And Professor Yaffle was a carved, wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him.
EPISODE TITLES (and descriptions from Wikipedia):
Ship In a Bottle: Some splints of wood are shaken out of a bottle by the mice. Bagpuss tells a story about mermaids and the magic repairs the model ship. The mice put it back into the bottle and raise the sails.
The Owls of Athens: A dirty rag reveals a picture of an owl. Once cleaned, Madeleine recounts a story explaining why owls sound like they do. Gabriel recounts in song the story of a king who needed a cushion to sit on.
The Frog Princess: Assorted jewels, which initially are thought to represent a cat and a bird but which Gabriel decides were the crown jewels of a frog princess.
The Ballet Shoe: Put to inventive use by the mice, and the subject of a very silly song about its possible use as a rowing boat.
The Hamish: A tartan porcupine pincushion, and a legend of a small, soft creature from Scotland.
The Wise Man: A broken figurine of a Chinese man (the Wise Man of Ling-Po, Yaffle explains) and a turtle.
The Elephant: An elephant missing its ears.
The Mouse Mill: " A wooden toy mill demonstrated by the mice to make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans and breadcrumbs. This turns out to be a mischievous fraud. Gabriel and Madeleine sing a song about how ploughmen, farmers, millers, and bakers work at different stages of bread production. Even stern old Professor Yaffle cries."
The Giant: "A statuette, and a lesson about how sizes are relative."
The Old Man's Beard: "A tangly plant (Clematis vitalba seeding), and a loom for weaving."
The Fiddle: "A fiddle that plays itself, and a leprechaun."
Flying: "A basket that the mice attempt to turn into a flying machine. Professor Yaffle recites a poem about Percy Pratt, a man who apparently invented the aeroplane."
Uncle Feedle: "A piece of cloth, destined to be a house for a rag doll."
Bagpuss was released on VHS and DVD. There are soft toys, figures, and more merchandise!
Bagpuss Characters: Emily - Bagpuss - Professor Yaffle - Madeleine - Gabriel - The Mice