Titch (TV series)
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Titch | |
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Created by | Pat Hutchins |
Starring | Peter Jones (Series 1 and 2) Paul Vaughan (Series 3) |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Running time | 10 minutes |
Production companies | Hutchins Film Company Yorkshire TV |
Original release | |
Network | ITV / CITV Milkshake! |
Release | 26 September 1997 June 2001 | –
Titch is a British stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2002, then from 2001 to 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake! in 2006 as Tiny Living went off-air.[1] It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the Titch book series.
Production
According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in stop-motion animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. After the first two series finished airing in 1999, a third series went into production, and premiered during 2000, before it had its final episode in mid-2001. There is no disclosed reason why the programme was cancelled, but repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2003. The series was then repeated on Tiny Living before moving to Milkshake! on channel 5 between 2005-2006.
Music and DVD
The music for Titch was composed by British pianist & composer Michael Nyman.
The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s. DVDs were released in 2005, titled Picnic and Other Stories and Christmas.
References
- ^ "Titch air dates". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
External links
- Use dmy dates from August 2012
- British children's animated comedy television series
- British preschool education television series
- British stop-motion animated television series
- ITV children's television shows
- Television series by ITV Studios
- Television series by Yorkshire Television
- English-language television shows
- 1990s British children's television series
- 2000s British children's television series
- 1997 British television series debuts
- 2001 British television series endings