Crystal Tipps and Alistair films for the Central Office of Information. The series has no dialogue but rather is accompanied by a full musical soundtrack composed by Paul Reade; however, when shown on "Captain Kangaroo" in the U.S. in the 1970s the series did have voice-over narration by Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti in his high-pitched "Mister Moose" voice. Crystal's Christmas Special was shown on 25 December 1974. Crystal Tipps and Alistair Crystal Tipps and Alistair is a British cartoon produced for the BBC. The title characters are a girl and her dog who are joined by their friends Birdie and Butterfly. There are 50 five-minute
Companion (Doctor Who) was written out by the unusual method within the series of being "killed off". By the time of the Sixth Doctor, a single companion had become standard again. Although the term "companion" is designated to specific characters by the show's producers and appears in the BBC's promotional material and off-screen fictional terminology, there is no formal definition that constitutes such a designation. The definition of who is and is not a companion becomes less clear in the newer series. For instance, Stephen Brook in "The Guardian" newspaper's Organgrinder blog discounted Michelle Ryan as a likely next companion but said that