KIDS TV PIONEER POSTGATE DIES
Animator OLIVER POSTGATE, the creator of British children’s TV show BAGPUSS, has died at the age of 83.
Postgate was responsible for a string of iconic kids shows from the 1950s to the 1980s; including Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog, but he was most famous for The Clangers, a family of pink knitted aliens who spoke in whistles, and Bagpuss, a saggy pink cloth cat.
Postgate, a cousin of actress Angela Lansbury, died at a nursing home in Broadstairs, England on Monday (08Dec08), according to his partner Naomi Linnell.
He is survived by several children from his marriage to ex-wife Prudence Myers.
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