Noddy (TV series) Noddy (TV series) Noddy, also known as The Noddy Shop or Noddy in Toyland (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a Canadian-American children's television series based on Enid Blyton's children's book series of the same name with stop motion sequences from "Noddy's Toyland Adventures" that aired from August 31, 1998 to February 16, 2000 on PBS in the United States. Following its cancellation, reruns were aired until September 5th, 2004. The series was produced by BBC Worldwide, Catalyst Entertainment and Enid Blyton Ltd. The show starred Sean McCann as Noah Tomten, a former old salt, who now runs an
Grey noddy Grey noddy The grey noddy or grey ternlet ("Anous albivitta") is a seabird belonging to the family Laridae. It was once regarded as a pale morph of the blue noddy ("Anous cerulea") but is now usually considered to be a separate species. The first formal description of the grey noddy was by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856 under the binomial name "Procelsterna albivitta". The specific name "albivitta" is from the Latin "abus" for "white" and "vitta" for "band" or "head-band". The grey noddy was formerly placed in the genus "Procelsterna". A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2016