Once Potter finishes the story, she either posts the picture letter herself or asks a boy to do it.Īn exception to this is The Tailor of Gloucester episode, which takes place at Christmas time. The live-action scenes in Potter's cottage and grounds were filmed on location at her actual cottage, 'Hill Top', in Cumbria, which is maintained unchanged as a museum by the National Trust.Įach episode opens up with a live-action Beatrix Potter, portrayed by actress Niamh Cusack, coming to her farmhouse out of the rain, either after finishing a watercolour painting and running home with her pet dog, Kep, or after doing the shopping in town and hitching a ride home on a horse-drawn vehicle, sitting down to some tea with her pet rabbit, Peter, and then setting up the featured story. The main title song for the show is Perfect Day sung by Miriam Stockley. The animation style of The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends keeps very close to Potter's artwork in the original books. Dianne Jackson, director of the 1982 Christmas special The Snowman, was involved in the planning of the series and received series director and writer credit on the first six episodes, but she died of cancer on New Year's Eve 1992. The first six episodes cost approximately £5 million to produce. TVC London, in association with the BBC and the Japanese companies Pony Canyon Inc and Fuji Television Network Inc., produced the show for the publishing company Frederick Warne & Co. For the initial VHS releases, some of the characters' voices were dubbed-over by actors with more American-like accents. on Family Channel between 23 October 1992 and 23 October 1995. It was subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on the BBC between 20 December 1992 and 25 December 1998. 14 of Potter's stories were adapted into 9 films, and the series was originally shown in the U.K. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is a British animated anthology television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter.

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