The Magic Roundabout (known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot. Some five hundred five-minute-long episodes were made and were originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF.
The series also attained great success in the United Kingdom. The English version was narrated by Eric Thompson, the father of actresses Emma Thompson and Sophie Thompson, and was b...
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The Magic Roundabout (known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot. Some five hundred five-minute-long episodes were made and were originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF.
The series also attained great success in the United Kingdom. The English version was narrated by Eric Thompson, the father of actresses Emma Thompson and Sophie Thompson, and was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. This version of the show attained cult status, and was watched as much by adults for its dry humour as by the children for whom it was intended.
Although the characters were common to both versions, they were given different names depending on the language.
The main character was Pollux (Dougal in the English language version) who was a drop-eared variety of the Skye Terrier. In the French version Pollux was an English character who spoke somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent,...
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