Titch (TV series)

Titch is a British stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2001, then from 2001 to 1 January 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake! in September 2004 as Tiny Living went off-air. It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the Titch book series.

Titch
Series logo
Created by	Pat Hutchins
Starring	Peter Jones (Series 1 and 2) Paul Vaughan (Series 3)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	39
Production
Running time	10 minutes
Production companies	Hutchins Film Company Yorkshire Television
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV) Milkshake!
Release	26 September 1997 (1997-09-26) – June 2001 (2001-06)

Production

According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in stop-motion animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. After the first two series finished airing in 1999, a third series went into production, and premiered during 2000, before it had its final episode in mid-2001. There is no disclosed reason why the programme finished but Hutchins but reportedly it became too costly and time-consuming to create. Due to its immense popularity repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2003 and then repeated on Tiny Living. The programme moved to Milkshake! on Channel 5 between 5 September 2005 and 15 January 2006 with updated titles credited to 2005.

Music and DVD

The music for Titch was composed by British pianist & composer Michael Nyman.

The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s. DVDs were released in 2005, titled Picnic and Other Stories and Christmas.

External links

• Titch at IMDb