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I only have to hear the piano chords introduction to Bagpuss and my eyes start leaking; and I was 24 in 1974 when he was first broadcast.

A girl who my mum knew was actually in this, then ended up in Emmerdale. Her career has not continued ever since.

I think what people love most of the classic Postgate stories is their inherent simplicity - one could feasibly recreate or tell the stories with their own toys, and in a way they do feel like children playing with their toys, with parents narrating or making some of the voices and sounds, and the child does the whistling noise of the Clangers and the singing of the mice.

'It's like a spawning point for enemies in a video game'

Tik Tok before tik tok

Crazy to think Ed Sheeran nearly ended up on this show, and they rejected him for not being good looking enough. Now look where he is.

Love this, thanks Charlie :)

This video always makes me laugh my head off

Beautiful.

I got Probed by a clanger. It was very traumatic.

Small films. Nice name.

I nobody going to question how someone with dyslexia got into a performing arts school without anyone knowing

Seriously, why did this fictional school have a cofin in the middle of it?

Sincere, and valid. I have been telling people about the Clangers for many years, at all sorts of odd moments, and they were a very important realization of someone's surrealism which somehow just clicked with me, and I was not a kid back then! Never saw Bagpuss, though.

God I loved Bagpuss

I remember bagpuss damn

Britannia High is so 2000’s it hurts.

4:35 - Coronavirus pandemic 2020

A shame that Charlie didn't mention Vernon Elliot.

Which episode and series was this?

I think if the BBC had credit-squashed the end titles on this, Charlie would have murdered someone.

no dislikes, the way it should be, I will kill myself if I've jinxed myself but then again I don't wanna kill myself because I couldn't enjoy the pingwings or clangers

A video without a single dislike in 10 years? Well done Postgate/Brooker fans ✨

That's all very interesting. But please don't forget about Grolliffe the ice dragon from Noggin The Nog. I have a crush on him.

A very touching tribute.

He suffers from life threatening dyslexia

that "oh no" at the beginning of the toilet paper song is by far the best of this video

Thank feck, there's something Charlie Booker likes.

I'm so pleased there are no dislikes for this, there is hope after all

'I think he's the black one' made me spill my drink on myself 😂

I am the man...

The rewatchability of Charlie Brooker clips is off the chart! This man is a genius!! xD

"I think he's the black one"

4:53 Charlie's trying not to laugh rocking out face is just the best

Bagpuss. An absolute legend in children's TV.

I loved these programmes. My mum had bagpuss and clangers on vhs for me

Form an orderly queue to punch the living daylights out of "Jez"...

why aren't 90% of the comments here about the brilliant song we just enjoyed

haha! "wheres the paper, wheres the paper. ."

I'd TP Charlie.

I still think the best bit is the look on Richard Blackwood's face at 2:05, having been "treated to a glimpse of fanny".

2:31 what you all came for

That's not funny, my grandad died of life threatening dyslexia

''treating them to a glimpse of fanny'' hahahaha

Need to set the 'where's the paper' song as my ringtone.

nades on the spawn point....charlie brooker is that guy

"its like a spawning point for enemies in a video game ... " ... Genious

I really must try to use the term "piss weasel" more in everyday conversation.

"This is the planet Earth, our Planet. It is a small planet, wrapped in clouds - but for us, it is a very important place: it is HOME. But supposing we look away from the Earth and travel in our imaginations, across the vast starry stretches of outer space. Then we can imagine other stars - stranger stars by far than ever shone in our night's sky - and planets too. This calm, serene orb - sailing majestically among the myriad stars of the firmament - perhaps this star too, is home for somebody. Can we imagine the sort of people that might live on star like this? Lets us go very close, let us look - and listen - very carefully. And perhaps we shall see... and hear…." Like millions of other children, I listened, spellbound by Oliver Postgate's enchantingly beautiful voice. To some extent, the words themselves were less important than the richly mellifluous delivery. Those words though, ARE important; consider the language itself: hypnotically poetic, perhaps - but crucially (for me, at least) the language is unapologetically erudite. As an adult, I'm struck by Postgate's unashamed use of our language's rich diversity. Compare this to the restrictive language in children's programmes today. How can we inspire children to express themselves if we fail to expose them to a wide vocabulary? I don't suppose Charlie Brooker ever reads these postings, but in the event that this is seen by someone who knows him, I hope they'll tell him that his elegy was absolutely on the money - and to thank him for taking the trouble to do this.