Andy Pandy

Infobox British television
show_name = Andy Pandy


size = 200px
caption = The 1952 "Andy Pandy" title card
format = Childrens
runtime = 30mins
creator = Freda Lingstrom
starring = 1950
Maria Bird
Gladys Whitred
2002
Tom Conti
Vera McKechnie
channel = BBC One 1950
CBeebies 2002
first_aired = 1950-1970
last_aired = 2002-2005
num_episodes =
producer = David Boisseau
Peter Thompson
related =

"Andy Pandy" is a British children's television series, the original incarnation of which premiered on BBC TV on 11 July 1950, [ [http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/watchwm/watchwm.htm Watch with Mother ] ] as part of the "For the Children" strand (later "Watch with Mother"). A marionette who lived in a picnic basket, Andy was later joined by Teddy (a teddy bear) and Looby Loo, a rag doll, who would appear when Andy and Teddy weren't around. All three lived in the same picnic basket.

In one episode Andy Pandy sees how high he can go on a swing. This episode was released on the 1987 compilation by BBC Video.

* Producer: Freda Lingstrom.
* Writer/composer: Maria Bird.
* Singer: Gladys Whitred.
* Puppetters: Audrey Atterbury, Molly Gibson.

Though only 26 episodes were made, they were repeated continuously until 1970, when, due to the now deteriorating films, thirteen colour episodes were made.

Another set of 52 episodes were made in 2002, now using the stop-motion technique instead of string puppeteering. The original nursery and garden were expanded to an entire village, with Andy, Teddy and Looby Loo now owning individual houses, and four new characters were introduced - Missy Hissy, a snake, Tiffo, a dog, Bilbo, a sailor, and Orbie, a yellow-and-blue ball. Whereas the emphasis of the original series was on music and movement, the emphasis of the 2002 series was on making and doing.

A comic version was published in "The Robin".

Theme music

Opening theme

Andy Pandy's coming to play
La la la la la la
Andy Pandy's here today
La la la la la

Closing theme
Time to stop play
Just for today
Andy and Teddy must now go away

Time to stop play
Just for today
Andy is waving goodbye
Goodbye
Good bye

Looby Loo song
Here we go Looby Loo
Here we go Looby light
Here we go Looby Loo
All on a Saturday night

Put your right foot in
Put your right foot out
Shake it a little a little
And turn yourself about

Here we go Looby Loo
Here we go Looby light
Here we go Looby Loo
All on a Saturday night

Put your left foot in
Put your left foot out
Shake it a little a little
And turn yourself about

2002 Theme

Here comes Andy Pandy and Looby Loo
Happy as they can be
Teddy too
Playing in the garden everyday
Making things is so much fun
Here comes Andy Pandy...here in Andy Pandy Land

References

External links

* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/443679/index.html British Film Institute Screen Online]

2. Andy Pandy.net