Titch (TV series)
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| Titch | |
|---|---|
 Series logo | |
| Created by | Pat Hutchins |
| Starring | Peter Jones (Series 1 and 2) Paul Vaughan (Series 3) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 minutes |
| Production companies | Hutchins Film Company Yorkshire Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV (CITV) Milkshake! |
| Release | 26 September 1997 – June 2001 |
Titch is a British stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2001, then from 2001 to 1 January 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake! in September 2004 as Tiny Living went off-air.[1] It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the Titch book series.[2]
Production
[edit]According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in stop-motion animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. After the first two series finished airing in 1999, a third series went into production, and premiered during 2000, before it had its final episode in mid-2001. There is no disclosed reason why the programme finished but Hutchins but reportedly it became too costly and time-consuming to create. Due to its immense popularity repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2003 and then repeated on Tiny Living. The programme moved to Milkshake! on Channel 5 between 5 September 2005 and 15 January 2006 with updated titles credited to 2005.
Music and DVD
[edit]The music for Titch was composed by British pianist & composer Michael Nyman.
The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s. DVDs were released in 2005, titled Picnic and Other Stories and Christmas.
References
[edit]- ^ "Titch air dates". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Toonhound - Titch (1997-2000)". www.toonhound.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.