Pingwings
A knitted penguin family on a farm.
Pingwings is a black-and-white stop-motion animated children's television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms. It aired on ITV in the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1965, following a family of penguin-like creatures living on Berrydown Farm. The series is notable for combining animated sequences filmed outdoors with live-action footage of farm characters.
Quick Facts
- Format
- Black-and-white stop-motion animation with live-action sequences
- Number of episodes
- 18
- Episode length
- 10 minutes
- Broadcaster
- ITV (first on Associated Rediffusion)
- First broadcast
- February 1961
- Creators
- Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
- Production company
- Smallfilms
Facts from the source article.
Characters
The Pingwing family includes Mr. Pingwing, a father who is not very clever but cares deeply for his family. Mrs. Pingwing is the typical mother, often seen in an apron. Their eldest child, Paul, is a confident, technically-minded son who always wears a hat. His younger sister, Penny, also wears an apron. Baby Pingwing starts as an egg in the first episode and hatches in the fourth, frequently finding himself in trouble. Mr. Pingwing later seeks advice from the Pog, a strange, wise creature resembling a pig. Gay the Goat is a live-action character who is deaf and kind, playing a major part in episode two and appearing in the background afterward.
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