Pigeon Street

Pigeon Street
Genre	Children
Written by	Michael Cole
Voices of	George Layton
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Location(s)	UK
Running time	15 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC
Picture format	Colour
Original release	10 February – 17 December 1981

Pigeon Street is an animated children's television series, written by Michael Cole, originally shown on the BBC in 1981 as part of its 'See-Saw' strand for pre-schoolers. There were two series with eight and five episodes respectively, each programme lasting fifteen minutes. The series has been repeated a number of times.

The animation was created by Alan Rogers and Peter Lang of the Cut-Out Animation Co., who later went on to do a nursery rhyme series with similar animation called Rub-A-Dub-Dub. Voices were performed by George Layton, with additional voices by John Telfer. Music was by Benni Lees, and played by Soulyard.

The shows featured the everyday adventures of a group of characters living on Pigeon Street, an area of flats and terraced housing in a British city, also home to several pigeons which appeared in each show but only occasionally featured in the plot.

Characters included Clara the long distance lorry driver, her cohabiting partner Hugo the chef, Mr Baskerville the detective, Mr Jupiter the astronomer, Mr Macadoo the petshop owner and twins, Molly and Polly, who were only distinguishable by the letter M and P on their jumpers.

Rogers and Lang went on creating many animations for programmes like Words and Pictures, Numbertime, Rosie and Jim, Hotch Potch House, Rat-A-Tat-Tat and The Number Crew.

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