Titch (TV series)

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Titch

Series logo
Format Children's
Created by Pat Hutchins
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 24
Production
Running time 10 minutes
Production company(s) Hutchins Film Company
Yorkshire TV
Broadcast
Original channel ITV / CITV
Tiny Living
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
Original run September 1997 – October 2000

Titch was a stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2000. Then from 2001-2006 shown on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake in 2006 as Tiny Living went off-air.[1] It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the Titch book series.

Production

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. There is no known reason why the programme was cancelled, but repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2006, when the programme was no longer shown on CITV.

Music and DVD

The music for Titch, and in particular the recognisable theme used in the opening and the closing of each programme, was composed by British pianist Michael Nyman.

The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s, and DVDs were released in 2006, titled Picnic and Other Stories and " Christmas "

References

  1. "Titch air dates". BFI. Retrieved 2011-10-04. 
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