8 /10 1 Votes
Music by Bryan Daly No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 12 May 1983 Number of seasons 1 | 8/10 IMDb Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 17 November 1982 Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Bertha, Charlie Chalk, Postman Pat, The Herbs, The Animals of Farthing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gran gliding
Gran is 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 and they were lucky and kind
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The programme made by Woodland Animations was created and written by Michael and Joanne Cole. Ivor Wood produced thirteen five-minute episodes in 1982 and the series was broadcast on the BBC between 17 November 1982 and 12 May 1983, and was repeated in both 1986 and 1992. Children's books based on the series, written by Michael and illustrated by Joanne Cole were 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 as part of the Tiny Living broadcasting block on Living TV in the late 1990s, and no further episodes were made. Universal Pictures released all 13 episodes on Region 2 DVD in the U.K. on 7 March 2005, but the release has since been discontinued.
Gran the goalie
Synopsis
At first glance you may think Gran is like any other Grandma, but she's not. Along with her grandson Jim, she takes part in different crazy adventures. Each episode sees Gran performing weird and wacky tasks - growing her runner beans up a dinosaurs skeleton, hand gliding, knitting a giant scarf to wrap around her house in the winter and cross country motorbike racing. But one thing's for sure - she'll always be wearing her pink slippers.
VHS release
Castle Communications released one video of Gran with 12 episodes on it and it later got repackaged as a single title by the Castle Communications 'Playbox' brand of children's video titles (Cat. No. PVC 121).
On 1 June 1999, Castle Home Video (a division of Castle Music Ltd) had released a single video of Gran with all 13 episodes of the entire show on it (including Gran's Old Bones as its first episode along with the 12 other episodes of Gran from its original Castle Communications video release).
GOOF: The cover of Gran (CHV 2051) mistakingly contains 12 episodes on the back cover and credited as "12 classic episodes" on the front cover whereas the actual video cassette contained all 13 episodes of Gran.
Theme tune lyrics
The theme music had the following lyrics:
Hello Gran, how are you?How do you feel today?I just came by to see if I could be of help in any way?I always like to come and spend my time with youYou somehow seem to think of something great to doYou really are the mostI think that I can boastYou really are the most surprising Gran!(Whistle)Credits
Copyright Gag: the 1982 caption reads MDCCCCLXXXII instead of MCMLXXXII