Classic Children's Television - Rag Tag and Bobtail

UK - Children's Entertainment - BBC 1953 - 1955

The hedgerow adventures of a trio of country animals.

Rag Tag and Bobtail was the Thursday segment of the 'Watch with Mother' strand and featured the little escapades of glove puppets Rag (a hedgehog), Tag (a mouse) amd Bobtail (a clover-chewing buck rabbit). The puppets were created and controlled by Sam and Elizabeth Williams, and 26 episodes were made. Episodes one and two were never screened, but the remaining 24 were repeated endlessly until the programme was replaced in 1965.

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