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Trumpton - Chigley - Camberwick Green. The Complete Collection [DVD] [1969]

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Actors: Brian Cant
Writers: Gordon Murray, Alison Prince
Producers: Gordon Murray
Format: PAL
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 3
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Studio: Firefly
DVD Release Date: 11 Nov. 2002
Average Customer Review: 52 customer reviews
ASIN: B00006RHSE
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 21,875 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
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- #4567 in DVD & Blu-ray > Box Sets

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Three children's tv favorites from 60s and loved by successive generations of kids since collected on one DVD set that has become a rarity. Originally aired by the BBC on the Watch with Mother slot their ongoing popularity and nostalgia is typified by the many positive customer reviews below.

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Hours of gentle entertainment for toddlers

ByA customeron 14 January 2003

Format: DVD

With 9 hours of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley (all the episodes from each series) this is very good value. Obviously a 2 year old is not going to watch a marathon viewing of it but it provides lots of story variety rather than a video with four episodes on and is of slightly better quality to view than the video. Quite a memorable watch for mum too!

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Nostalgia for my 2 year old

ByJustine Williamson 22 March 2004

Format: DVD

Our 2 year old daughter is now thoroughly enjoying the programmes her parents so enjoyed years ago. The simplicity of the animation and clarity of script makes it ageless and therefore still very watchable. Delighted that we can still share these classics today.

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Great for nostalgia but remember it is OLD!

ByleftfooterTOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon 20 May 2003

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

Bought this partly for my daughter and partly out of nostalgia for the TV of my youth.
The rating of this item is not a reflection of the original programme content - this is just as good as I remembered (5 stars!). The narration is spot on and the stories have a simple, repetitive beauty that children love.
However, buyers should remember that these programmes were made DECADES ago. The quality of the playback is distinctly variable - some episodes are OK, but others are blighted by 'scratchiness' on the screen. Some episodes are noticeably darker than others. Worst of all, payback suffers from a sort of 'wobble' - this varies between episodes, but the worst ones made me feel a little sea-sick after a few minutes!
I can only assume that this is down to the quality of the original tapes from which the DVD was produced. I note that this is not a BBC product, and is not up to the standard of other collections I have seen (e.g., Bagpuss). Perhaps true fans should petition for a 're-mastered' edition from Auntie Beeb herself.
Summary:
Pros: Gotta love those puppets. Brian Cant's narration. 39 episodes on 3 DVDs
Cons: video quality variable, with disturbing 'wobble' on some episodes. Very basic menu function only - no notes or accompanying info.

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My son loves this

BySarahon 5 February 2015

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

My son loves this dvd...enough said really lol
Nice and peaceful, repetitive with songs.

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Return of some very happy memories

ByDean Evanson 15 November 2005

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

I bought all 3 DVD's mainly through years of 'ribbing'from my parents and sister alike about stories of my childhood and my love affair with Trumpton. You see, as a 1971 child, and one that was sports mad, not even a game of street soccer could ever stop me from running in to the sounds of "Dean, Trumpton is on".
Of course I purchased the set for my 3 year old son but a trip down memory lane was a factor for me and what a trip it was! The stories are still as I can vividly remember them - a make-believe world of goodness and friendliness, a world where the commuity holds together.
My son positively loved the characters and the models of the farmers truck, army wagon, fire engine and of Lord Bellboroughs "cho cho" and I strongly believe his speach and use of words have improved since viewing thanks mainly to Brian Cants clear and concise (and friendly) manner.
All in all I could not rate this highly enough for my son - he watches it so much I know the words (again!). One word - brilliant!

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A stop-motion Barsetshire

ByEarthshakeron 14 July 2005

Format: DVD

For beginners: Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were all made in the late 1960s and chronicled the doings of residents in three nearby settlements. They were made using puppets in stop-motion. Each series expanded on the characters and landscape of the previous one; coming to it again as an adult I'm surprised just how much interlock there is, with a lot of characters from one series cropping up in another. (Pretentiousness alert: you could compare them to the way Trollope interlocks his groups of characters in Barsetshire.) The time in which they are set is roughly that at which they were made, or perhaps an old-fashioned version of it, but in the same way that a child will play with a mixture of toys and not care that model cars are built to different scales or that a cowboy is defending a model castle, there are anachronisms: the boys at Pippin Fort military academy ride in an army lorry but wear 18th century grenadiers' outfits, complete with pigtail.

How well do they stand up today? Well, my five year old watched them with huge enjoyment, which has to be the best test of all. They are certainly of their time; you won't find black or disabled characters and attitudes to authority are pretty deferential. You're unlikely, however, to find anything that positively grates and the target group, infants of pre-school and reception age, will enjoy it.

What you get with this set of DVDs is the complete set of three series. Full marks for completeness; that is, however, all that you get. There are absolutely no extras (I for one wouldn't have minded just a little information on the people behind the names credited; the names Bura and Hardwick, in charge of photography, crop up in a lot of children's programmes from this era, and I'd like some background and maybe career highlights). More importantly, as previous reviewers have noted you get the films as they are now apparently dumped straight onto DVD with no attempt to clean them up or remove the wobble caused by old distorted film. It's something that one can live with, but it's not great. Also, the menu functionality is negligible: you can select the episode at which you start but from then on the disk will play continously (and start again once it reaches the end) so you only get to choose where in the cycle you start, not whether you want to play a specific episode only. Still less do you get to programme episodes to play in a certain order: an annoyance when one comes to the Chigley disk, since the first two episodes here are in reverse order.

Four stars - for the content. It doesn't have the haunting strangeness of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's work of the same period, but it's a solid, fun piece of work that can still delight children nearly forty years after it was made. For the actual production - film quality and the amount of "customer service" you get in terms of menu, extras etc. - three stars. Spartan, but it gets you there, is the best one can say about that. Fortunately it is worth getting there.

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Still good!

ByShinsFortresson 18 February 2009

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

One of those that has not becomse a dinosaur!

This is quality, lovely, childrens entertainment that for some probably has more value as a nostalgia trip for adults. Not all modern childrens telly is tripe and not all older series were great, but this one is.

Aging technical issues aside, I feel Chigley (+ Trumpton et al) are still watchable now. A lot of "retro childrens TV" is now available on TV, but do your review research well as you might not feel all series hold up to the test of time. An example for me is/was The Clangers, whose nostalgia wore off quickly and I didn't like it so much. Bagpuss though, is still great.

Then there's the cartoons. Has Dangermouse ever been topped? Discuss.... :)

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Pure nostalgia!!

Just three words that describes this wonderful children's TV show....A timeless classic!

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Time flew by

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lovely slow piece of life and something that really is nice to watch in the modern world

From start to finish this is so charming to watch, lovely slow piece of life and something that really is nice to watch in the modern world.

Published 1 year ago by Bradley Bottomley

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Published 1 year ago by cassie1

Classic kids TV, 30 odd years ago I watched ...

Classic kids TV, 30 odd years ago I watched all these when they were on BBC 1 at Lunch time after Pebble Mill at 1.

Published 1 year ago by Mr. R. Allen

Well worth buying for those who remember the programmes the first time round

For those who remember 'Watch with mother' and want to be reminded of classic children's programmes, this is the DVD set for them.Read more

Published 1 year ago by P. Wray

Four Stars

Lovely DVD for me and my grand children

Published 1 year ago by Gillian Balmforth

Four Stars

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