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Ragdolly Anna | |
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Presented by | Pat Coombs |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 30 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Original release | |
Network | CITV |
Release | 26 July 1982 – 13 July 1987 |
Ragdolly Anna was a British children's television series, produced by Yorkshire Television and Siriol Productions and based on the books by British writer Jean Kenward. [1] The show was broadcast between 1982 and 1987 on the ITV network during its Children's ITV strand. The show starred Pat Coombs and was about a small stuffed doll named Ragdolly Anna that used to spring into life when nobody was watching and would go on many wild and fantastic adventures. The programme was filmed in the Woolman Street Tenements in the Mabgate area of Leeds.
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