Trumpton

Description: Channel: BBC / Genre: Kids / "Here is the clock, the Trumpton clock. Telling the time steadily, sensibly, never too ... more

Trumpton ... quickly, never too slowly. Telling the time for Trumpton." Trumpton carried on the style of Camberwick Green, but this time the setting was a busy market town, complete with town hall and resident mayor. There was a whole new cast of characters, including Mrs Lovelace (and her yappy dogs), Chippy Minton the carpenter and, most famously of all, the town fire brigade, whose roll-call ("Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb!") became the series' catchphrase. But the main theme remained: whether in a small village or a bustling market town, the residents always helped each other out and a problem shared was a problem solved.

Newest Review: ... who also tends to Trumpton's town clock opens his shop as well, and more. There is also the Fire Brigade, which never gets to tend any fires, but which every Tuesday holds a concert in the park at the band stand, and comes to aid in any way they can. Each episode occurs on a Tuesday, by co-incidence (lol), so each episode ends with the Fire Brigade band playing the same song to a crowd of ... more

... town folk (oom pom pomp, oom pom pomp). The episodes are over very ordinary events, such as the Post Office Telephone servciemen (ha, before there was a BT) fixing the lines, and the lines getting accidentally crossed, or someone's aunt coming from...more

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Trumpton: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub! (859 words)
by - written on 18/12/07 (Very useful, 165 readings)
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Trumpton first aired in 1967 on BBC and is a stop motion animation show. Located a few miles up the road from Camberwick Green, which featured in a previous series, Trumpton is a traditional small village complete with a village green with a bandstand. The town has a fancy clock in the town hall complete with moving figures, and at the beginning of each episode, we are greeted by the narrator's voice of Brian Cant informing us that it is "telling the time, steadily, sensibly; telling the time for Trumpton." Each epiode starts with the clock striking the hour and we see the high street coming to life. The Mayor appears in his robes and regalia, Mr ... Read the complete review

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