Yorkshire Television produced the series Little Blue – so named because the little anthropomorphic elephant broke a fountain pen which he was playing with whilst taking a bath, and covered himself in blue ink.
Little Blue, a polite and well-mannered (elephant) child, lived with his mother, Mrs Jellybun, in Meadow Cottages in a converted fire station in the human village of Haythorn.
He attended Haythorn School where his teachers were Miss Merryweather (who couldn’t pronounce her “R’s”) and Mrs Gittings, and his friends included his bossy next-door neighbour Geoffrey West, Walter “Kipper” Guppy (so named because his father kept the fish shop) and Agatha Bagshot.
Written by Iris and Harold Purcell (who narrated the first series), the stories were illustrated by Digby Turpin.
Following Harold Purcell’s death in 1977, John Kidd took over as narrator and Purcell’s son, Simon, stepped in to help Iris write the remaining episodes.
Little Blue, Little Blue, Why do they call you Little Blue? Playing in his bath one day as some of us do, He bit his mummy’s fountain pen and broke it in two. The ink it quirted in the water — wow — His mummy has a blue boy now!
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Harold Purcell (1)
John Kidd (2)
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He attended Haythorn School where his teachers were Miss Merryweather (who couldn’t pronounce her “R’s”) and Mrs Gittings, and his friends included his bossy next-door neighbour Geoffrey West, Walter “Kipper” Guppy (so named because his father kept the fish shop) and Agatha Bagshot.
