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The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's programme that ran on BBC ... An additional 43 episodes were narrated by Planer from April to September 1993 ...
Thompson worked regularly for the BBC, and was a presenter of the children's television programme Play School from 1964 to 1967. He was best known as the narrator of The Magic Roundabout, for which he also wrote the English language scripts, using the visuals from the original French Le Manège enchanté.
Serge Danot (7 February 1931 – 23 December 1990) [1] was a French animator and former advertising executive. He is best known for creating the animated series, Le Manège enchanté in 1964, which became known in its 1965 English-language version, written and narrated by actor Eric Thompson for the BBC as The Magic Roundabout.
Le Manège enchanté (British English: "The Magic Roundabout", American English: "The Magic Carousel") is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1964, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. [2]
Dougal and the Blue Cat (French: Pollux et le Chat Bleu) is a 1970 animated film based on The Magic Roundabout directed by Serge Danot.It was released in France in December 1970 and its English version, narrated by Eric Thompson, like the original series, was released in 1972.
The Magic Roundabout (1992, English adaptation and narrator on previously unseen episodes) Bonjour la Classe (1993, TV Series) as Laurence Didcott; Sherlock Holmes (1993, TV Mini-Series) as Inspector Hopkins; Let's Get Divorced (1994) Wake Up! With Libby And Jonathan (1994, TV Special short) as Jonathan Hughes; Clockwork Mice (1995) as Parkey
The Magic Roundabout, a 2005 animated film, based on the series; The Magic Roundabout, a 1979 project to build a full scale Millennium Falcon in Pembroke, Wales, for a Star Wars film; A special traffic roundabout in England with a complex layout, nicknamed after the above series, also known as a ring junction: Magic Roundabout (Colchester ...
18 October – The British version of children's stop-motion animation The Magic Roundabout, with narration written and read by Eric Thompson, debuts on BBC1; it continues until 1977. 31 October – BBC2 in the North of England goes on the air.