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''Bod'' was a BBC1 children's television programme first shown in 1975, with thirteen episodes, based on four original ''Bod'' books by Joanne and Michael Cole. It was an animated cartoon series narrated by John Le Mesurier & Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths and produced by David Yates. The four books were published in 1965 in the United Kingdom and later in the United States and France. They were: ''Bod's Apple'', ''Bod's Present'', ''Bod's Dream'' and ''Bod and the Cherry Tree''. The French version of ''Bod's Apple'' was called ''La Pomme de Gus''. Before the animated series was commissioned, the four books had been read on another BBC children's programme: ''Playschool''. In 1974, thirteen five-minute episodes were created for transmission on the BBC as part of the ''Watch with Mother'' series, and were also sold to Australia's ABC channel. Soon thereafter, it was shown in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the United States, ''Bod'' aired on Nickelodeon as a segment on the ''Pinwheel'' program. The character of Bod is a boy who lives in a town with Aunt Flo, PC Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow. Each of the characters has their own theme music performed by Griffiths which is heard when they appear. Regular features are animal identification and Bod Snap. There is also another set of characters who appear in each episode called ''Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band'' with artwork by Joanne Cole. This section featured short extracts from famous pieces of classical music as part of the story, and always ended with Alberto choosing a different flavour of milkshake as his reward for solving a problem, and was narrated by Maggie Henderson. ''Bod'' has appeared in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows and 100 Greatest Cartoons. ==Episode titles== #Bod's Dream * - 10/10/75 #Bod In The Park - 19/10/75 #Bod And The Rain - 29/10/75 #Bod And Breakfast * - 02/11/75 #Bod And The Apple - 11/11/75 #Bod On The Beach - 19/11/75 #Bod And The Dog * - 25/11/75 #Bod And The Cake - 01/12/75 #Bod And The Kite - 07/12/75 #Bod And The Birds * -15/12/75 #Bod And The Grasshopper - 19/12/75 #Bod's Present * - 22/12/75 #Bod And The Cherry Tree - 27/12/75 All thirteen Bod episodes are available on DVD. The ''Alberto Frog'' segments were produced separately by the BBC and were originally shown alongside the Bod episodes; only five of these thirteen segments are known to survive, following a decision in the early 1990s to wipe a large amount of videotaped 1970s children's programmes . The five surviving segments are marked above with an asterisk and are present on the Bod DVD. Another was recovered from an old VHS tape and is available on YouTube. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bod (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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