| In the 1970s a generation of children experienced a canon of British animated children's programmes, including the likes of Mr. Benn, The Magic Roundabout, the Clangers, Roobarb, The Wombles, Camberwick Green, King Rollo, Ivor The Engine, Bagpuss, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Bod, Captain Pugwash, The Flumps, and Noggin The Nog. |
| In the Nineties these programmes have enjoyed a returning popularity with re-runs and appearances on posters, T-shirts, mugs and all kinds of merchandising. Finally they have also been adopted by the Nineties music scene with sampled sounds from the programmes taking tracks to the top of the British charts. Animated children's television from the Seventies has clearly gained a cult status amongst an adult generation, mostly those who experienced the programmes when they were first broadcast. |
| Through this multimedia project I shall be exploring this phenomena, suggesting reasons behind the return of such programmes, and offering justifications for their sustained popularity with a now older, and supposedly more mature, generation. |
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