EndedBBC Television1959-12-28

Ivor The Engine

Name: Ivor The Engine
Genre: Animation, Kids
Released: 1959-12-28
Rating: 8.333
Cast: Oliver Postgate, Anthony Jackson, Olwen Griffiths

Animation Kids

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

BBC Television, Rediffusion London

Countries

First aired

1959-12-28

Last aired

1977-12-23

Language

Rating

8.3 / 10

Episode release dates

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Synopsis and details

...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..." ...And that was how it began, back in 1959: one of Oliver Postgate's most loved creations, Ivor the Engine. It was a series about the Welsh adventures of a little green railway engine and his many friends. But Ivor wasn't an ordinary steam engine. He pretty much wished he was a person and ended up doing things like singing in a choir and swimming in the sea! One season of six, 10 minute, Black and White films was made for and screened by Associated-Red.