![]() ![]() Royal Mail capitalized on this by having Pat as something of a mascot, and this was clearly a great marketing move as both children and parents loved Postman Pat. The fist series ran for 13 episodes and was an immediate success and for a whole decade people seemed incredibly taken in by the lovable postman. However, it isn’t always the villagers that present problems, nature also presents obstacles that Pat must overcome from snowy winters to windy autumns and animals that seem to like giving Pat the runaround. The episodes tended to consist of one of the villagers having trouble or requiring a favour, and Pat being the helpful man he is, is always willing to lend a hand. Aside from Pat, who easily had the personality of a great protagonist, the show had a wide range of colourful characters that Pat interacted with. Pat was a kind, helpful person, who enjoyed meeting people and loved his job of delivering letters and parcels (and usually the local gossip). The story followed a village postman by the name of Pat who is always accompanied by his beloved cat Jess, doing his rounds around the country village of Greendale. In the early 80’s John Cunliffe wrote the scripts for Postman Pat and they were directed by a pioneer of stop-motion animation Ivor Wood. This is more of a tribute than a review, although I will be discussing aspects of the show that made it great and making criticisms where I believe it went downhill. There was something warm and comforting about the original series, which helped it become one of the greatest British children’s shows of all time. But Postman Pat stayed as long as he did because for over three decades he has delighted and enthralled children everywhere and endeared himself to their parents and grandparents. It was not at all loyal to the original source, like so many other hit classics from the 80’s and 90’s, it was morphed into something else, something mediocre and unoriginal. ![]() As an adult who grew up with Postman Pat as one of the mainstay characters of my childhood, a part of me is slightly relieved it’s over, as what the series became was a far-cry from how it began. As sad as that may be, I cannot say I’m altogether unhappy about this. For that post I did some research into the sources I mentioned, one of which was the legendary Postman Pat. Now up until that point, I was under the impression that the series was still going, albeit under a different name Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service. Now I have some thoughts on that which I will get to, however, through my research I discovered that the show is no longer being made, which means for the time being, Postman Pat is done. I decided to do this as a sort of sister piece to my other blog post on the decline of stop-motion animation within children’s television. ![]()
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