Gran was a children's stop motion animation television series narrated by Patricia Hayes and directed by Ivor Wood. There were only two main characters, namely Gran and her grandson, Jim.
Michael and Joanne Cole of Woodland Animations created thirteen five-minute episodes in 1982. The series was broadcast on the BBC between February 17, 1983 and May 12, 1983, and was repeated in 1986. A children's book based on the series was also released in 198...
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Gran was a children's stop motion animation television series narrated by Patricia Hayes and directed by Ivor Wood. There were only two main characters, namely Gran and her grandson, Jim.
Michael and Joanne Cole of Woodland Animations created thirteen five-minute episodes in 1982. The series was broadcast on the BBC between February 17, 1983 and May 12, 1983, and was repeated in 1986. A children's book based on the series was also released in 1983. The shorts were also shown in the U.S. as part of the Nickelodeon series Eureeka's Castle.
Despite moderate popularity with young audiences in the mid-1980s, the series has not been seen on UK television since being repeated in the early nineties, and no further episodes were made; however, Series 1 was released on Region 2 DVD in the U.K. on March 7, 2005.
Gran is no ordinary grandma, she takes part in weird and wacky adventures including digging up dinosaur bones in her back garden, growing runner beans up a skeleton, hang gliding,...
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