”It’s a lovely day in Chigley.” Lord Belborough and Bracket are taking Bessie out for a run to Treadle’s Wharf and the workers are making fine biscuits at the biscuit factory. When the whistle blows at the end of a hard day’s work, everyone makes their way to the park to enjoy the 6 o’clock Tea Dance. Enjoy all 13 original episodes once again, fully restored from the original film negatives.
Set in the industrial hamlet of Chigley near Camberwick Green, each episode tells the story of a local.
This iconic British animation, narrated by Brian Cant was originally broadcast in 1969 and was aired regularly by the BBC until 1985. Chigley comes third in the Trumptonshire trilogy, comprising of Camberwick Green and Trumpton.
Chigley’s first airing on television coincided with the BBC’s changeover to colour broadcasting in 1969, so some episodes were shown in black and white and some in colour. Animators Bob Bura and John Hardwick had the foresight to insist on shooting all the Trumptonshire series (starting in 1966) in both black-and-white and colour ensuring Trumptonshire’s longevity.
Brian Cant narrated all of the Trumptonshire Trilogy filmed between 1966 and 1969. Cant came to the attention of writer and producer of Trumptonshire Gordon Murray through Play School which he presented for 21 years starting in May 1964.
The line from the Oasis track Champagne Supernova “Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a cannonball” from the record breaking Oasis album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? was inspired by Brackett the Butler from Chigley. Noel said “He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn’t think of anything that rhymed with ‘hall’ apart from ‘cannonball’. So I wrote ‘Slowly walking down the hall/ Faster than a cannonball’ and people were like, ‘Wow, f**k, man’. When told by a Sunday Times journalist that the lyrics were ridiculous and asked what they meant Gallagher said “I don’t know. But are you telling me, when you’ve got 60,000 people singing it, they don’t know what it means? It means something different to every one of them.”
Extras: Exclusive interview with creator Gordon Murray, filmed on his 90th Birthday in May 2011. Creating Trumptonshire Featurette. Photo Gallery.
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