48 Hatty Town

First  watched  : Uncertain

My  goodness  me  , this  one  had  to  be  dredged  from  the  furthest  depths  of  memory  but  yes  Sancho  the  walking  sombrero  does  ring  a  bell.

Ivor  Wood  animated  and  directed  this  one  for  FilmFair  productions   but  it  was  bought  by  ITV  perhaps  because  its  10  minute  running  time  didn't  fit  in  with  BBC  schedules.  The  whopping  debt  its  style  owed  to  The  Magic  Roundabout  is  obvious - probably  just  from  the  still  above.  Even  the  music  was  very  similar.

 Apart  from  Carrots  the  donkey  all  the  characters were  talking  hats  who  also  lived  in  buildings  with  hat  shaped  roofs  which  indicated  their  function. The  programme  was  written  and  narrated  by  children's  author  Keith  Chatfield  and  ran  for  two  initial  series  in  1969-70  then  returned  for  a  third  in  1973.