About this season
The Magic Roundabout is a French-British children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot, with the help of Ivor Wood and Wood's French wife, Josiane. The series was originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF, originally in black-and-white. Having originally rejected the series as "charming... but difficult to dub into English", the BBC later produced a version of the series using the original stop motion animation footage with new English-language scripts, written and performed by Eric Thompson, which bore little relation to the original storylines. This version, broadcast in 441 five-minute-long episodes from 18 October 1965 to 25 January 1977, was a great success and attained cult status, and when in 1967 it was moved from the slot just before the evening news to an earlier children's viewing time, adult viewers complained to the BBC.
Episodes (52)
1. Bubbles
Aired 12 January 1964 • 5 min
2. Episode 2
Aired 19 January 1964 • 5 min
3. Episode 3
Aired 26 January 1964 • 5 min
4. Episode 4
Aired 2 February 1964 • 5 min
5. Episode 5
Aired 9 February 1964 • 5 min
6. Episode 6
Aired 16 February 1964 • 5 min
7. Episode 7
Aired 23 February 1964 • 5 min
8. Episode 8
Aired 1 March 1964 • 5 min
9. Episode 9
Aired 8 March 1964 • 5 min
10. Episode 10
Aired 15 March 1964 • 5 min
11. Episode 11
Aired 22 March 1964 • 5 min
12. Episode 12
Aired 29 March 1964 • 5 min
13. Episode 13
Aired 5 April 1964 • 5 min
14. Episode 14
Aired 12 April 1964 • 5 min
15. Episode 15
Aired 19 April 1964 • 5 min
16. Episode 16
Aired 26 April 1964 • 5 min
17. Episode 17
Aired 3 May 1964 • 5 min
18. Episode 18
Aired 10 May 1964 • 5 min
19. Episode 19
Aired 17 May 1964 • 5 min
20. Episode 20
Aired 24 May 1964 • 5 min
21. Episode 21
Aired 31 May 1964 • 5 min
22. Episode 22
Aired 7 June 1964 • 5 min
23. Episode 23
Aired 14 June 1964 • 5 min
24. Episode 24
Aired 21 June 1964 • 5 min
25. Episode 25
Aired 28 June 1964 • 5 min
26. Episode 26
Aired 5 July 1964 • 5 min
27. Episode 27
Aired 12 July 1964 • 5 min