  camberwick green (1966) is a british children's television series, originally seen on bbc1, featuring stop-motion puppets. ==background== the series was written and produced by gordon murray and animated by bob bura, john hardwick and pasquale ferrari. music was by freddie phillips while narration and song vocals were provided by brian cant. there are 13 fifteen-minute colour episodes produced by gordon murray pictures. the inspiration for the name is believed to have stemmed from the east sussex village of wivelsfield green supported by the nearby villages of plumpton (trumpton) and chailey (chigley). each episode begins with a shot of a musical box which rotates while playing a tune. it is accompanied by the following narration:  the lid of the box then opens and the puppet character that is central to the episode emerges. after a brief introduction, the background appears and the story begins. the series is set in the small, picturesque (and fictitious) village of camberwick green, trumptonshire, which is inhabited by such characters as police constable mcgarry (number 452), mickey murphy the baker, dr mopp (who makes house calls in his vintage car), and the town gossip, mrs honeyman, who is always seen carrying her baby. just outside the village lives jonathan bell, owner of a "modern mechanical farm", who has a friendly rivalry with windy miller, owner of a clanking old&nbsp;â but nevertheless efficiently functional - windmill and a firm believer in old-fashioned farming methods. mr dagenham, a travelling salesman who drives an open-topped convertible occasionally appears, as do the staff and cadets of pippin fort, a nearby military academy run by captain sn
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