no, no, no .... Noggin the Nog was another creation of the great Postgate-Firmin duo, along with such other meisterwerke as the Clangers and the immortal Bagpuss.

I used to love Noggin the Nog .... PSD wipe that grin off of your face *now*.

Coulda been worse. Coulda been Muffin the Mule.



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Hooray - someone else who remembers Noggin! :-)



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Somewhere deep in my soul I knew it had to be something to do with Oliver Postgate.

Did you know that the BBC wanted edit the language out of one episode of The Clangers? True - [www.clangers.co.uk]



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Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!



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** looking v. confused ** Must be a Brit-thing. You know, it's just not fair that you guys get most of our stuff but we don't get hardly anything of yours. (I would NOT count Absolutely Fabulous as a good show! LOL) However, I do know we keep stealing your game shows.

I agree All american - we don't get nearly enough. I love the show though - don't know what it is called - Judy Dench and....her lovely curmudgeon-ish husband. Anyone know it? Its silly - but they are cute.
By the way (and the crowd roars) - I finally finished the game. Nothing took anywhere near as long as the odd one out. I still don't understand the third one at all - all trial and error - but would have thought that one would NOT be odd - because ... its book was mentioned regularly....? Anyone able to explain without giving it away to others? (or with giving it away, I don't care....)

PS - how do I personalize this with my own fun quote? I want one too!!! (baa baa)



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Three of them are names of newspapers in the Nextian world. I'm hoping anybody looking for hints won't look here, and besides, they still need to read the book to find out which is the odd one out. Mwahahaha.

Clangers were kind of pink socks that lived on a far off planet and spoke in whistles, ate blue string soup provided by the Soup Dragon and who made friends with the Iron Chicken. I suspect they had a severe influence on my development.



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I remember 'Noggin the Nog', too... and one of my friends at university said that the author of the books on which it was based had been one of the teachers at a school that he'd attended.

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[www.oliverpostgate.co.uk]
[www.clangers.co.uk]
[www.nogginthenog.co.uk]

Essential reading for all people overseas baffled by British nostalgia, which is possibly the only conversation ever heard at parties.



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As Time Goes By.

Geoffrey Palmer was the husband and is a top comedy actor. He was great in Reggie Perrin (can't remember the character name in that).

He played Major James Gordonstoun Anderson...

So who else remembers 'Ifor the Engine'?

Yesssss! Wasn't it great? I once met someone who did an impromptu crossover story between that and "Blake's 7", but sadly she never wrote it down for posterity. I heard about it only afterwards.

I've met some wonderfully strange people. :-)



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They repeated Noggin during my finals, for which I can never forgive the BBC. I blame Noggin for making the Hobbit so interesting to me much later, and we all know what THAT has done to me.

I do hope no one has done slash starring Noggin and Thor Nogsson --- Noggson? Oggson? I feel a crossover coming on. Skiffle! Surely not you?

Anyone else remember Trumpton?

Hugh, Pugh, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble & Grubb...

Or Trumpton Riots by Half Man, Half Biscuit.

'Keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight,
There's gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight.'

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

And as for HMHB, both the brother and I are proud possessors of a Dukla Prague Away Kit.

99% of gargoyles look like Bob Todd. And I always did hate Nerys Hughes. Keep doing the Len Ganley Stance, folks!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I have a Clanger that says the rude words in Clanger that got one of the episodes banned from TV.

I'm afraid best TV personality was Roland Rat

Blue Peter and Mark Curry - the man.
And the Advent Crown always set on fire. The classyness of British Kids TV in the 80's and 90's

A friend of mine once started writing a crossover between "Get Smart" and "Dr. Who". Sadly he never completed it, and the only line I recall off the top of my head was:
"Ah, the old bigger on the inside than it is on the outside trick. I've seen it a thousand times."



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