Andy Pandy

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Andy Pandy
The 1952 Andy Pandy title card
Format	Childrens
Created by	Freda Lingstrom
Starring	1950 Maria Bird Gladys Whitred 2002 Tom Conti Vera McKechnie
Production
Producer(s)	David Boisseau Peter Thompson
Running time	30mins
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One 1950 CBeebies 2002
Original run	1950-1970 – 2002-2005

Andy Pandy is a British children's television series, the original incarnation of which premiered on BBC TV on 11 July 1950,^[1] as part of the For the Children strand (later Watch with Mother). A marionette who lived in a picnic basket, Andy was later joined by Teddy (a teddy bear) and Looby Loo, a rag doll, who would appear when Andy and Teddy weren't around. All three lived in the same picnic basket.

In one episode Andy Pandy sees how high he can go on a swing. This episode was released on the 1987 compilation by BBC Video.

Producer: Freda Lingstrom.
Writer/composer: Maria Bird.
Singer: Gladys Whitred.
Puppetters: Audrey Atterbury, Molly Gibson.

Though only 26 episodes were made, they were repeated continuously until 1970, when, due to the now deteriorating films, thirteen colour episodes were made.

Another set of 52 episodes were made in 2002, now using the stop-motion technique instead of string puppeteering. The original nursery and garden were expanded to an entire village, with Andy, Teddy and Looby Loo now owning individual houses, and four new characters were introduced - Missy Hissy, a snake, Tiffo, a dog, Bilbo, a sailor, and Orbie, a yellow-and-blue ball. Whereas the emphasis of the original series was on music and movement, the emphasis of the 2002 series was on making and doing.

A comic version was published in The Robin.

[edit] Theme music

Opening theme

Andy Pandy's coming to play
La la la la la la
Andy Pandy's here today
La la la la la

Closing theme
Time to stop play
Just for today
Andy and Teddy must now go away

Time to stop play
Just for today
Andy is waving goodbye
Goodbye
Good bye

Looby Loo song
Here we go Looby Loo
Here we go Looby light
Here we go Looby Loo
All on a Saturday night

Put your right foot in
Put your right foot out
Shake it a little a little
And turn yourself about

Here we go Looby Loo
Here we go Looby light
Here we go Looby Loo
All on a Saturday night

Put your left foot in
Put your left foot out
Shake it a little a little
And turn yourself about

2002 Theme

Here comes Andy Pandy and Looby Loo
Happy as they can be and Teddy too
Playing in the garden everyday
Making things is so much fun
Here comes Andy Pandy...here in Andy Pandy Land