Bagpuss rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met), while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the folk songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Postgate, who also wrote the stories. The toys discussed
A Man Called Sarge in a feature film. He had previously worked with director Stuart Gillard as the main character in Disney's 1987 television movie "The Return of the Shaggy Dog". Marc Singer was a well established TV actor when he enrolled as General Von Kraut, with a career spanning almost 20 years, including the lead role in the series "V". As a feature actor, he was best known for the 1982 film "The Beastmaster". "A Man Called Sarge" marked a return to the big screen and the start of a prolific film career during the 1990s. This was the Singer's second collaboration with