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| Genre | Children's television series |
| Created by | David Wood |
| Written by | David Wood |
| Directed by | Martin Pullen |
| Creative director | Alan Murphy (art director) |
| Voices of | Andrew Sachs Jacqueline Clarke David Wood |
| Narrated by | Anton Rodgers (uncredited) |
| Theme music composer | David Wood |
| Composers | Peter Pontzen David Wood |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | David Yates |
| Producer | Kath Swain |
| Editor | Andi Sloss |
| Camera setup | Simon Paul |
| Running time | 10 minutes per episode (approx.) |
| Production companies | FilmFair Central Independent Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 24 April [1] – 24 July 1992 |
The Gingerbread Man is a British stop motion animated children's television series about a gingerbread man and his friends, who come to life in their home on the kitchen dresser when the Big Ones are asleep. [2]
The series was written by David Wood, adapted from his two-act musical play The Gingerbread Man , which premiered in 1976 at the Towngate Theatre in Basildon, Essex, and went on to great international success. [3] The play is inspired by "The Gingerbread Man", a 19th-century fairy tale.
The screen adaptation was co-produced by FilmFair and Central Independent Television in 1991, and broadcast on ITV in 1992. Andrew Sachs voiced the Gingerbread Man, Mr Salt the Sailor, Herr Von Cuckoo and Sleek The Mouse. Jacqueline Clarke voiced Miss Pepper and Old Tea Bag. Although uncredited, Anton Rodgers voiced the narrator. And also uncredited, David Wood voiced one of The Big Ones.
In the United Kingdom, some episodes were released on VHS tapes in the 1990s by PolyGram Video, 4 Front Video (Pocket Money Video) and distributed by Channel 5. For example, PolyGram Video released a VHS tape with the first 5 episodes on 28 April 1995. Various animation compilations on VHS included single episodes.
After including a portion of the series on its VHS animation compilation All Together Now (2001), Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the first 5 episodes on a Region 2 DVD entitled The Gingerbread Man (12 April 2004), again distributed by PolyGram Video and Channel 5. The entire series was finally issued on DVD when Abbey Home Media released the first 6 episodes on DVD on 27 March 2006, and the remaining seven episodes on a second DVD on 26 March 2007.
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