• Source: Mr. Piper

      • Mr. Piper is a 1963 Canadian children's TV series. The series was created by Martin Andrews and Allan Wargon, who was also the producer. 39 episodes were produced.


      Overview


      The show's host was a large Canadian opera tenor Alan Crofoot, dressed as a Pied Piper with a flower in his hat. He would introduce four segments in each half-hour programme:

      Teletune - as a narrator of limited animation cartoons of fantasy stories
      Port of Call - presenter of films about children and events in other lands;
      Bag of Tricks - Crofoot performs magic tricks;
      Animal Farm - many farmyard characters telling the story of the day in miniature barnyard sets, featuring Rupert the Rat, Bessie the Bunny, Kookie the Kitten, Harriet Hen, Freddie Frog, Calvin (Rac)Coon and Charlotte Cow.
      Thirty-nine episodes were produced.
      It was originally shown by CBC Television and also became well known in the United Kingdom, where it was repeated on ITV throughout the 1960s and 1970s, often as part of school summer holiday programming. In May/June 1972, some Mr. Piper episodes were transmitted, dubbed into Italian, by the RAI-TV network.


      Episode list


      Oh My Baby
      Ali Baba
      Brave Molly
      It's A Triple
      Touch Me
      Hasty and the Princess
      The Kindhearted Girl
      The Magic Horn
      The Three Sisters
      The Proud Princess
      It Grew Two Sizes
      Ahmed the Merchant
      Hansel and Gretel
      The Wild Swans
      The Tin Soldier
      The Three Brothers
      Hassan the Simple
      The Three Soldiers


      References




      External links


      Mr. Piper at IMDb
      Alan Crofoot on Canadian Encyclopedia

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