Favourite Children's Television

THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT

When thinking back on favourite tv programmes for kids, one comes to mind straight away. It very different to children's programmes nowadays, it was innocent, nice, educational and so very cute. It was the time-lapse animation called 'The magic Roundabout'.

The Magic Roundabout was first shown on British BBC TV on October 18th, 1965 just before the 6 o'clock news (prime time). It was a popular programme about 8 million watched the five minute episode of the Magic Roundabout.

It's original name was 'Le Manege Enchante', French as you can see because it was created by Serge Danot but as it came to Britain it was re-named by Eric Thompson.

The Magic Roundabout ran on British T.V until 1977 and was phased out. However a few films have been made using this old series and they are both very entertaining for all the family. The first film featuring the characters of the Magic Roundabout is called: 'Dougal and the Blue Cat' and the other film is made in 3D digital animation 'The Magic Roundabout Movie'which is far from the old time-lapse methods of the past but they still keep that lovely quality.

This was such a popular children's programme that they translated it into 28 different language.