Tales of the Riverbank

Name: Tales of the Riverbank
Genre: Family
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Johnny Morris, Peggy Miller

TV Series
1960–19631960–1963
30m

Real live animals such as Hammy the Hamster and Roderick the Rat are cleverly moved around off-camera in order to tell stories for children.Real live animals such as Hammy the Hamster and Roderick the Rat are cleverly moved around off-camera in order to tell stories for children.Real live animals such as Hammy the Hamster and Roderick the Rat are cleverly moved around off-camera in order to tell stories for children.

8.7/10

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Stars
- Johnny Morris
- Peggy Miller

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Real live animals such as Hammy the Hamster and Roderick the Rat are cleverly moved around off-camera in order to tell stories for children.

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Genre
- Family
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Trivia
The animals used to film the series were all female because female animals were thought to be much calmer. This was true for the later series as well.

Connections
Featured in The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows (2001)

Top review

Children's TV at its best

Only 3 black and white episodes of this superb children's TV programme. Features GP (guinea pig) Roderick Rat and Hammy Hamster. The story is told in Johnny Morris' inimitable style using different voices for each of the animals in a similar way to the Animal Magic BBC TV programme.

The black and white episodes were longer than the colour ones and the photography appears superior. The writing did not talk down to children and so even now as an adult the episodes are intelligent and clever.

This was a gentle beautifully crafted series with no violence made in Canada and bought for the BBC by the great Peggy Miller. Sadly Paul Sutherland died in 1994 aged 73.

Can we have all the early episodes on DVD please ?

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