Trumpton (series)
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Trumpton is a children's stop motion television series which ran on BBC1 from 3 January - 28 March 1967. The series was created and produced by Gordon Murray, while it was written by Alison Prince. It was part of the Watch with Mother series of shows, as well as being the second instalment in the "Trumptonshire trilogy", a trilogy of three series which took place in the "Trumptonshire" county, the other series being Camberwick Green and Chigley.
The series is set in the titular Trumpton, and features various recurring characters, including the mayor, Mr Clamp, Mrs Cobbit, Miss Lovelace, her dogs (Mitzi, Daphne, and Lulu), PC Potter, and the Trumpton Fire Brigade (Captain Flack, Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grubb). Characters returning from Camberwick Green included Mrs Honeyman and Thomas Tripp.
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The series was among the several BBC productions to be represented in the 1998 Children in Need special Future Generations.
The story featured a young boy walking through the settings of various series while telling the story of the BBC. Early in the video, the boy exits Camberwick Green and enters Trumpton, where several characters from the series can be seen, along with Mrs Honeyman and Thomas Tripp from Camberwick Green. The following scene has the boy perform a roll call on the Trumpton Fire Brigade before exiting the scene and entering Chigley.
The narrative later features two Daleks and the TARDIS, representative of the Doctor Who series.
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In the It's Bigger on the Inside! comic story Nostalgia Corner, the First Doctor realises that he, John, and Gillian are in Storyland when he reads a sign with directions to Trumpton, Mordor, and Lilliput.
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Steven Moffat indicated that he had Trumpton in mind while writing TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"], calling Amy Pond's home town of Leadworth "basically Trumpton."[1]
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