240 Ivor the Engine

First  watched :  January  1976

I knew  this  one  must  be  coming  up  soon. Ivor  the  Engine   was  the  first  programme  produced  by  Oliver  Postgate  and  Peter  Firmin's  Smallfilms  in  the  late  fifties  and  hadn't  been  broadcast  for  years.  The  BBC  asked  them  to  remake  it  in  colour  with  modified  storylines  to  fit  the  five  minute Magic  Roundabout   time  slot.

Like  Thomas , Ivor  had  a  mind  of  his  own  and  actually  more  independence  of  movement. I  can't  really  remember  any  of  the  stories  but  it  was  my  introduction  to  the  ( exaggerated )  concept  of  Welsh  people  only  having  half  a  dozen  surnames  to  go round  so  everyone  had  to  be  identified  by  their  occupation - Jones  the  Steam, Evans  the  Song ,  Dai  the  Station  and  so  on.