Bagpuss Bagpuss Bagpuss is a British children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of 13 episodes was first broadcast from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although only 13 episodes were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was frequently repeated in the UK for 13 years. In 1999 "Bagpuss" topped a BBC poll for the UK's favourite children's TV programme. Each programme began in the same way: through a series of sepia photographs, the
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel is a 1635 oil painting by Judith Leyster that is currently housed in London's National Gallery. There have been various interpretations of Judith Leyster's "A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel" by different scholars. Some, such as Neil McLaren, have argued that it represents the Dutch proverb ""Een aal bij de staart hebben"" (or "to hold an eel by the tail") meaning that you do not get to hold onto something just because you