The first children's show to be transmitted in colour by the BBC.
Although the action takes place in the present, half of the characters are dressed in clothes from around 1900, mixing incongruously (but charmingly) with the 1966 technology, and with the dress of the other characters.
Re-using existing footage helped save on both time and budgets. Peter The Postman performs the same dance with Miss Dingle in 13 different episodes.
Using stop motion animation, each 15 minute episode would take around 4 weeks to film.
Following a series of various corporate takeovers, mergers, and de-mergers, by May 2019, the intellectual property rights to the Trumptonshire Trilogy appear to now be owned by NBCUniversal.
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