Firstly, Gerry Anderson’s initial contact with the world of puppetry came when his company of the time, Pentagon Films, were hired in 1956 to make a television commercial for Kellogg’s Sugar Ricicles using the same Noddy puppet seen in The Adventures of Noddy series – the puppet was used in several Ricicles adverts over the years.Īnother reason we should be interested at the re-emergence of the 1950’s version of Noddy is that it gives us a fuller picture of the state of children’s puppet programming into which emerged AP Films’ first puppet series, The Adventures of Twizzle, which debuted in November 1957. Now a complete episode, Noddy and the Moon, has appeared on YouTube, which is of interest to Anderson fans for several reasons. The Adventures of Noddy disappeared from British television screens in 1960, until recently the only reminder of its existence segments from a single episode appearing on a VHS compilation of classic children’s TV shows. It was also around four and a half years earlier than Grade’s first Gerry Anderson production, Supercar. His ATV company (or ABC, as it was known in its earliest days) was responsible for The Adventures of Noddy over two years before AP Films’ first puppet production, The Adventures of Twizzle, was first shown by Associated-Rediffusion. You might be surprised to learn that Supercar was not Lew Grade’s first experience with commissioning a children’s television series made with marionettes.
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