who was bagpuss?

Answer 1

He was Emily's friend. Saggy, and a big loose at the seams, but she loved him.

Answer 2

Bagpuss is a magical cat. When he wakes up, all his friends come to life. He can also make his thoughts visible in bubbles above his head.

Despite this, he doesn't play a major part in most of the stories, instead being content to lie on his rug and listen to the songs the others sing as they identify and repair the thing.

All in all, he's just an old, saggy cloth cat.
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams.
But Emily loved him.

(he lived in a shop)

Answer 3

Bagpuss is a popular 1974 UK children's television series, made by Smallfilms. It is fondly and widely remembered, despite the fact that only 13 episodes were ever made.

Each programme would begin the same way: Through a series of sepia photographs, we are told of a little girl named Emily (played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of the illustrator Peter Firmin), who owned a shop. The shop didn't sell anything, however - instead, Emily would find lost and broken things and display them in the window of the shop, so that their owners could one day come and collect them. She would leave the object in front of her favourite stuffed toy - a large, saggy, pink and white striped cat named Bagpuss. She would then recite a verse:

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing
When Emily had left, Bagpuss would wake up. The programme shifted from sepia to colour stop motion film, and various toys in the shop would also come to life: Gabriel the toad and a rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (distantly based, it is said, on the philosopher Bertrand Russell), while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ which played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the proper songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Oliver Postgate.

The toys would discuss what the new object was; someone (usually Madeleine) would tell a story related to the object (shown in an animated thought-bubble over Bagpuss's head), often with a song, which would be accompanied by Gabriel on the banjo (which often sounded a lot more like a guitar), and then the mice, singing in high pitched squeaky harmony as they worked, would mend the broken object. The newly mended thing would then be put in the Shop window, so that whoever had lost it would see it as they went past, and could come in and claim it. Then Bagpuss would start yawning again, and as he fell asleep the colour faded to sepia and they all became toys again.

Most of the stories and songs used in the series are based on folk songs and fairy tales from around the world.

In 1999 it came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nations' favourite children's show. It also came fourth in the 2001 Channel 4 poll The 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows.

Bagpuss has now retired to the Rupert Bear Museum in Canterbury, UK, part of the Museum of Canterbury.

Answer 4

A saggy old cloth cat, But Emily loved him.
http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/bagpuss/people.htm

Answer 5

He was a cloth-eared, soggy old cat (but Emily loved him).

Bagpuss ran for a series of thirteen shows in 1974. It was a stop animation in which he and other toys and ornaments would come to life and ponder over lost objects brought in to a shop where Emily would display them in the window, where Bagpuss sat.

Answer 6

bagpuss dear bagpuss old fat furry cat- puss, wake up and look at this thing that I bring, wake up be bright, be golden and light, Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing. He was a saggy old cloth cat and Emily loved him

Answer 7

An old saggy cloth cat, but Emily loved him.
When Bagpuss woke up, all his friends woke up too.
The mice on the mouse organ (we will fix it), Professor Yattle, Abigail the doll, the frog.
It was a BBC kids programme, and only 13 episodes were ever made.

add - nikitaa s, good answer! Mines all wrong!

Answer 8

BAGPUSS WAS A CAT A VERRY SPECIAL CAT WHO HAD A PRITTY LITTLE FRIEND CALLED EMILY AND WHEN EMILY FELL ASLEEP BAGPUSS WOULD COME TO LIFE AND WHEN BAGPUSS WOKE SO DID THE CLOCKWORK MICE AND THEY WOULD TAKE CARE OF EMILY AND PLAY LITTLE GAMES AND HAVE PARTYS and i ceep bugging my little friend emily out asking hows bagpuss lugs emily ,n, kim

Answer 9

A pink and white soggy cloth cat from a show way back in the 70's/80's. He used to talk and stuff....he was ace!

Answer 10

a fat saggy catpuss or a fat ugly sagpuss or summink...

Knocked about with some dozey tart called Emily who befriended inanimate objects...

Little did she know, however, that when she clocked-off they all came to life; The mice in the mouse-organ, a fat frog bloke with a banjo; professor Yaffel (a stuck-up tosser of a woodpecker if ever there was one).

Oh aye, life was never dull in that place...