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
Lady's companion in respect of the lady of a household, except for the essential subservience resulting from financial dependency. Lady's companions were employed because upper- and middle-class women spent most of their time at home. A lady's companion might be taken on by an unmarried woman living on her own, by a widow, or by an unmarried woman who was living with her father or another male relation but had lost her mother, and was too old to have a governess. In the latter case the companion would also act as a chaperone; at the time, it would not have been socially