1981: MORPH gets a BLUE PETER BADGE | Children's Television | Making of | BBC Archive

[@pattskatoey3139]

As a child it was a big thing to receive the coveted blue peter badge. W12 7RJ was the address for mail. It really is amazing how much work goes into filming animation.

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Super,at last to know more behind the scenes of a character that was a big part of our childhood back then,we often waited for the ice cream van and watched Morph and similar things on TV,growing up in the 70s/80s was simpler,if I knew then that the future me would be watching the same things now I'd have smiled,I'm still into the 70s. Big thanks to the uploader for making my day and best wishes to everyone.

[@BennyTheBall8899]

Used to love Morph.I remember watching Take Hart and the gallery bit ,me and my sisters would give the paintings in the gallery marks out of ten lol.

[@jasonayres]

I was fascinated with claymation in my youth, especially Morph (-my nickname many years ago -) and The Red and the Blue. Stop motion shows, like The Wind in the Willows and even Fireman Sam, Postman Pat and others must have taken the "patience of a saint" to produce. Thanks very much for posting this.

[@fibrown444]

Same here, I even considered studying it.

[@clarsach29]

I loved Morph as a child. The pile of dead faceless Morphs at 2:05 will forever haunt my dreams now.

[@Matty112uk]

Reminds of the Fast Show Sketch 'Just a tiny amount' 😂. Joking aside, I remember Morph fondly. Young Sarah Greene was lovely. 😍

[@sevenwatson5854]

Loved Morph and his companions, my brother and I watched from the beginning with Tony Hart in Take Hart....we watched Tony in Vision On in the late 60s too

[@hilaryepstein6013]

This is very sweet. Life seemed so much less complicated then, especially for children (rose coloured glasses maybe?). Peter Lord and David Sproxton created Aardman Animations who also did the superb Creature Comforts.

[@BennyTheBall8899]

I agree Hilary,we were allowed to disconnect from things in a way and rely on our own company and imagination a bit more,now social media sort of changes that i think.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

@@BennyTheBall8899 Yes, social media has a lot to answer for. I'm a child of the 70s and I think we had much more freedom and less peer pressure.

[@krashd]

Wow, I had always assumed Nick Park ran Aardman, I'm guessing he was just one of their big signings.

[@davidevans3227]

at the time things were complicated enough.. as my mother has always said (and now i'm saying it...) glad i'm not young these days!

[@StuartAxe]

Then and now, Sarah Greene is adorable ;-)

[@stepheng8779]

Went like a train at uni 👍

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

She comes across as sharp witted.

[@zappababe8577]

Sarah Green, with her lovely natural hair colour! Bless her, she looks so young here! She looks like she should still be in college!

[@duncanself5111]

Trap Door was my favourite stop motion animation, I loved Morph though

[@alexfenton229]

That was amazing!!! One of Cosgrove Halls creations if I remember. BERK!!! FEED ME!!!!!😂

[@JayZDraws]

Morph never gets old

[@therealcaldini]

Seeing all these old Blue Peter sketches you realise just how stylish Sarah Greene was - always a la mode.

[@davidevans3227]

thankyou! i was trying to remember her name

[@Oldgamingfart]

0:15 Looks like Dave's engaging in a spot of Wii Sports Boxing! 🥊

[@matthewfarmer6830]

The clay anamated reminds me of Wallace and Gromet. I remember this and I'm 46.

[@krashd]

Aaardman Animations, the same company makes both.

[@robinvanags912]

Peter Lord's 'Morph' cartoon strip in the Radio Times (John Craven's Back Pages) was faithfully accurate to the 3-D characters.

[@matthewbland8765]

Sarah Greene. 🥰

[@berniewighton1496]

brilliant❤

[@scaredyfish]

OG Aardman animations!

[@PNDStudios]

Grew up with Morph in the US when I was a kid. It aired on American NBC then CBS on Saturday mornings. It came on before Beakmans world

[@gregwilliams6828]

That first guy was rocking a major unibrow 😂

[@EnterShikari01]

He needed to sort that out for sure

[@gregwilliams6828]

@@EnterShikari01 or could try and make it fashionable 😉

[@MiceOnParole]

Sarah Greene 😍

[@MartyOGorman]

7:24 The original Amazing Adventures Of Morph theme! I was beginning to think I’d imagined it. Very jazzy.

[@80ssynthfan48]

It must be super-old. I only remember the brash synth one, and that was early 80s.

[@dunebasher1971]

Yep, by Georgie Fame, who actually recorded it as a full-length song and was going to release it as a single, but it never happened. He performed the full song once on Blue Peter, and that was it. It got dropped from the show when it proved too expensive to licence it for use on Morph video cassettes.

[@johnmurphy9688]

Great to see my old childhood friend morph. Rip Tony hart, my favorite artist to watch on TV in the 80s

[@jpsimmons5100]

25 pictures in 1 second!

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

I wonder whether years later those guys would reminisce about the day 'that lovely young woman from Blue Peter' visited their studio?

[@melanierhianna]

See, 1981, and they are using metric because we've been teaching it since 1968.

[@wasiemqutteneh7346]

Animation back in the day! Wow!!

[@EnterShikari01]

Stop-motion animation is still done like this?

[@melanierhianna]

They still do it like this. Same company does major movies now.

[@melanierhianna]

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[@mehere3013]

she was allways in my bank when I was younger,

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Morph was the British Gumby.

[@elvosparsley9606]

Anyone fancy a pint?

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

I remember that Fast Show sketch. Great wasn't it!

[@jpsimmons5100]

I preferred 30 frames per second.

[@melanierhianna]

They were not alllowed to use trade names so its "modelling clay".

[@MrDannyDetail]

Given the large quantities they'd need, and how they'd want control over the exact material properties of their models, I'd think they'd've been making their own anyway, rather than buying proprietary brands like Plasticene or Play-Doh.

[@alexthomas637]

😎😎😎👍

[@TheBroz]

Just a tiny amount... Anyone fancy a pint?

[@simonturnill]

Hahahaha! I had exactly the same thought!!!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hahaha i remember watching this character on tv!!

[@royfr8136]

Sarah Green before she did what 99% of all gingers do...... Go blonde.

[@thebadgamer1967]

Morph used to annoy me no end .

[@imansfield]

Nowadays the “tomboy” character would be regarded as trans!

[@krashd]

In 1981 it was completely normal to keep a unibrow?

[@hughtierneytierney3585]

She's trying not to stare at it.

[@carmelhughesparolya899]

How terribly boring🤪

[@pjgathergood6987]

...And yet, we are to presume you watched it?

[@stepheng8779]

You are yes