Animal Magic (TV series)
Animal Magic | |
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Presented by | Johnny Morris |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 42 |
No. of episodes | 440 |
Production | |
Running time | various |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 13 April 1962 8 March 1983 | –
Animal Magic is a BBC children's television series which ran from 1962 to 1983 from BBC Bristol.[1] It began fortnightly and was transmitted weekly from 1964.
The presenter was Johnny Morris. The show combined jovial voiceovers applied to various animals from Bristol Zoo with some basic educational features.
Morris' co-presenters over the years were
One edition, broadcast in late 1979, featured Tom Baker in character as Doctor Who, discussing ferocious animals on Earth and other worlds. During this programme, the Doctor references the events of the then-current serial, The Creature From The Pit.
The 100th edition was transmitted on 4 January 1967.
Many editions of the show were junked by the BBC in the early 1990s when they were assumed to be of no further use. Recent documentaries such as The Way We Went Wild have had to resort to using clips from off-air recordings of some shows.[citation needed]
In addition to airing on the BBC, the series was also aired on
Theme tune
The signature tune, "Las Vegas", performed by Group Forty Orchestra, was written by
References
- ISBN 1903111277.
- ^ "Animal Magic". BBC.
- ^ "Animal Magic (1962)". Soundtrack Collector. Concept and Creation. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ^ The Historic Record Quarterly, Volumes 18–21. J. R. Wrigley. 1991. p. 18.