The Pingwings
TV ShowTitle | The Pingwings |
User score | 0 |
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Genre | Animation |
Director | Oliver Postgate |
Production country | GB |
Series status | Returning series |
Seasons count | 3 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 12 |
Run time | 10 min. |
Pingwings was an animated black-and-white children's television series of 18 ten-minute episodes broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV in 1961. It first aired on Southern Television. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived at the back of a barn on Berrydown Farm. The Pingwing characters were knitted by Firmin's wife Joan and the animation was achieved using the stop motion technique.