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''Summerton Mill'' is a British
's children's television series
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created by Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson. It was first shown on the CBeebies
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channel in 2005 as a segment of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Tikkabilla
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. It has subsequently been repeated both within Tikkabilla and as a standalone show on CBeebies and BBC2.
It is a stop-motion animated series featuring the characters Dan, his companion Fluffa, Dr and Mrs Naybhur who live up on the hill, Francoise the cow, Mousey-Tongue the cat, two "yellow-spinner" chickens and the "millfreaks", tiny creatures which appear to resemble small, furry hedgehogs.
In all, twenty-six episodes (and a pilot episode) have been produced, and the show has been broadcast in several European and Middle Eastern countries, including Iceland
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, Finland
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, Slovenia
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, Slovakia
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, and Iran
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.
As at April 2021, the second series has not been seen on UK television, even though it has been broadcast in over 85 countries around the world.
Additional information
Pete Bryden and Ed Cookson created ''Summerton Mill'' based on Pete Bryden's original concept. They designed the sets and the characters, built the sets and the puppets, painted the backdrops, wrote the scripts, edited the video and sound, animated most of the first series and wrote and performed the music. A small production team was drafted in for the second series when the assistant animator of Series 1, James Cleland, was promoted to Director of Animation. The series is voiced by Silas Hawkins, whose father (Peter Hawkins
Peter John Hawkins (3 April 1924 – 8 July 2006) was a British actor. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the most sought-after voice artists for radio and television, becoming a regular face and voice around the Soho-based cir ...
) provided the voices of Bill and Ben, Captain Pugwash
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, the Daleks
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and The Woodentops
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History
The band formed in 1983 in South London with an initial lineup of Rolo McGinty (vocals, guitar, formerly of the Wild Swans a ...
.
Although the series is made very much in the style of Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms
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, much of the background humour is in a similar vein to that of Aardman Animation's Creature Comforts
''Creature Comforts'' is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about th ...
.
''Summerton Mill'' was inspired by Somerton Mill, a riverside property which was owned by Pete Bryden. It was at this secluded riverside location that the project was conceived and the pilot episode was filmed.
The iTeddy children's media player, featured on the British TV series ''Dragons' Den
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'', was distributed throughout the United Kingdom via the Argos
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chain of stores and came loaded with an episode of ''Summerton Mill'', with others available from the iTeddy website.http://www.iteddy.com ITeddy website. Retrieved 5 November 2007.
Episodes
* Pilot episode ''(Extended Introduction)'' * "The Hole" * "Kite Flying" * "The Sock Thing" * "Wing Nuts" * "Hiding" * "Dr Naybhur's Song" * "Cheering Up" * "The Baby Millfreak" * "Lost and Found" * "Mrs Naybhur's Vegetables" ''(Rework of the pilot episode)'' * "Chinese Whispers" * "The Picnic" * "Mrs Naybhur's Poem" * "Buried Treasure" * "Counting the Stones" * "Dan's Amazing Magic Show" * "The Lazy Day" * "Dan's Little Job" * "Laughing" * "The Story" * "Painting" * "Statue" * "Dan's Seeds" * "Dr Naybhur's Balloon" * "The Bottle Organ" * "The Present"Notes
External links
Summerton Mill Studio site
*{{IMDb title, 0939443 2005 British television series debuts BBC children's television shows Animated preschool education television series British stop-motion animated television series