‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return

More than half a century has passed since the BBC aired 13 episodes of the story of a somnolent pink-and-white striped cat which cemented Bagpuss’s place in the annals of TV history. Now Bagpuss, “the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world” has been dusted off to star in a new film.

The original show was primarily stop-motion with some paper cutout and conventional animation work, while the big screen reboot will combine live action and animation, with a projected release date of 2027. ‘The cameras were held together with Meccano’: how we made Bagpuss Read more

Voted the the all-time favourite children’s programme in 1999, the show was made by the Clangers co-creators Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, and filmed in the former’