Button Moon

[Ishikawa]

Shame the last episode ended so tragically:
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Not mine...

That's

so

wrong.

[James]

Button Moon is quite possibly the nicest children's programme ever made. I was too old for it as well, but even as a teenager it fascinated me with its sweetness.

That's quite a claim. The Oliver Postgate/Peter Firmin stuff is as sweet and as charming as one can get - I'd be amazed if Button Moon could hold a candle to their output.

[Cobra Commander]

Button Moon is quite possibly the nicest children's programme ever made. I was too old for it as well, but even as a teenager it fascinated me with its sweetness.

That's quite a claim. The Oliver Postgate/Peter Firmin stuff is as sweet and as charming as one can get - I'd be amazed if Button Moon could hold a candle to their output.

Difficult as I didn't grow up with Oliver Postgate, etc. I've seen Bagpuss but I find it pretty tedious, sorry!

[Tony]

Back in the mid-80s, I auditioned for the stage show. ISTR the guy in charge was pretty unpleasant - and had a huge fluorescently crimson nose.

[The Walrus]

Back in the mid-80s, I auditioned for the stage show. ISTR the guy in charge was pretty unpleasant - and had a huge fluorescently crimson nose.

Odd to hear that Alex Ferguson once had a second job, but there you go.

[Ishikawa]

Button Moon is quite possibly the nicest children's programme ever made. I was too old for it as well, but even as a teenager it fascinated me with its sweetness.

That's quite a claim. The Oliver Postgate/Peter Firmin stuff is as sweet and as charming as one can get - I'd be amazed if Button Moon could hold a candle to their output.

Nah. I'm with Cobra on this one - Button Moon is beautifully imaginative and must sweeter than some dull old mangey cat.

You had to be there to understand

[Sarah Hadley]

must sweeter than some dull old mangey cat.

This is actually the sort of claim the word "sacrilege" was invented for, you realize?

Bagpuss is the most adorable thing ever. I don't even remember seeing it as a kid (though I think I probably did, as it was screened as part of Nickelodeon's Pinwheel), but the absolutely gut-level sweetness of that opening narration makes me tear up every time.

...It doesn't make me actually break down crying, though. That particular embarrassment is reserved for Geoffrey Burgon's theme to The Chronicles of Narnia.

[James]

Most of this has just been added to Amazon Prime video.

[monkeybeard]

I'd like to live on button moon.

[Bachu]

With Mr Spoon.