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Three sets of DVDs
to be won!
Put on your party hats, folks, because "Paddington", "The Herbs", "Moschops",
"The Perishers", "Portland Bill", "Huxley Pig" and many more FilmFair delights
are finally coming to DVD. They're included in a magnificent line-up of titles
being released over the coming months by Abbey Home Media, in their
Tempo TV Classics range...
Better still, Abbey have been ultra-generous to The Hound by offering up
three sets of all 12 titles in this first batch of releases. That's right, three
lucky so-and-so's will each be walking away from Toonhound with a
dozen Tempo TV Classics on DVD!...
Abbey Home Media have 3 prize packages on offer, with
each including the following titles:
• Paddington: Please Look After This Bear
• The Adventures of Parsley: Cowboys and Indians
• The Herbs: Parsley's Tail
• The Perishers: Magic Mirror
• The Dreamstone
• The Wombles: Orinocco and the Big Black Umbrella
• The Gingerbread Man: The Arrival
• Moschops: The First Flower
• Hattytown Tales: Mr Wimpole's Breakfast Rolls
• Huxley Pig: The Circus
• The Adventures of Portland Bill: Changeable Weather
• Nellie the Elephant: Nellie and the Ghost
To enter the draw, simply send The Hound an email with the subject
heading Herbidacious Giveaway. Your email should include your full
name and contact address, including postcode.
The closing date for entries is Monday, 3rd April 2006.
Three winning submissions will be drawn after the closing date, and the
winners notified by email.
Please note: This Giveaway is only open to UK residents.
The Giveaway is now closed.
Thanks for taking part, folks!
Herbidacious winners!
• Jane Willis, Fleet, Hampshire
• Claire Beaton, Portlethen
• Lorraine Carter, Liverpool
FilmFair
fun!
FilmFair have given us a seemingly
endless parade of animated brilliance
over the years. The company's origins date back to the late
1960s, when
"The Herbs" first came out to play as part of the
BBC's "Watch With Mother"
programming. Parsley and his pals were the springboard
into a triumphant
two decades, because through the 1970s and early 1980s,
FilmFair's name
became synonymous with those fabulous tea-time tv shows on
BBC1,
broadcast just before the early evening news. "The
Adventures of Parsley",
"Paddington", "The Wombles" and "The
Perishers" were classic series,
repeated ad-infintium and emblazoned on the telly memories
of a generation.
But the company didn't rest on its laurels. We
visited "Hatty Town" with them,
we wallowed in the simple pleasures of "Moschops"
and "Portland Bill".
We daydreamed with "Huxley Pig" before we
were transported to
the half-hour dimensions of "The Dreamstone" and
beyond...
And now all these top series are coming to DVD, courtesy
of Abbey Home
Media and their Tempo TV Classics range.
The festival begins with "Paddington:
Please Look After This Bear", which hits stores
on 6th March 2006, and is
followed by a slew of top titles from the company, plus
a few friends, like
that big pink pachyderm "Nellie the Elephant".
And many discs will feature
extra puzzles, games and info - so a new generation
can learn all about
these top toons too...
"They came from Darkest Peru... from the
overgrown delights of a Walled
Garden... from Wimbledon Common and Guillemot
Rock, a kitchen dresser,
and even the Land of Nightmares... but
they were FilmFair stars one and all.
And they had just as many human stars behind
them too. Ivor Wood,
Graham Clutterbuck, Michael Bond,
Keith Chatwin, Elisabeth Beresford,
Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Dodd, Rodney
Peppe, Mike Jupp, Martin Gates,
David Wood, Martin Pullen and friends
came together behind and
around the camera to bring us so much
tea-time tv pleasure..."
THE
SMALL PRINT
• Prizes
go to the first three entries drawn after the closing date.
• Winners
agree to having their names and location included on this web site.
• Names
and addresses of entrants will not be disclosed to any third parties, or
used for
any marketing purposes.
• The
Tempo DVD titles are all rated U in the United Kingdom.
• Sorry,
but we can not replace faulty or incompatible discs.
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