Magpie (TV series)
| Magpie | |
|---|---|
The Magpie logo. | |
| Genre | Children's Entertainment |
| Created by | Lewis Rudd Sue Turner |
| Presented by | Tony Bastable Tommy Boyd Pete Brady Jenny Hanley Douglas Rae Mick Robertson Susan Stranks |
| Theme music composer | Eddie Hardin, Ray Fenwick & Spencer Davis |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Lewis Rudd Sue Turner |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company | Thames Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 30 July 1968 – 6 June 1980 |
Magpie was a British children's television programme shown on ITV from 30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980. It was a magazine format show, intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but it attempted to be more "hip", focusing more on popular culture. The show's creators, Lewis Rudd and Sue Turner, named the programme Magpie, as a reference to the magpie's habit of collecting small items and also because of "mag" being evocative of "magazine" and "pie" being evocative of a collection of ingredients.