Monday 17 March 2014

Ludwig

Today's next show is a real oddity. I never quite understood this one as a kid, maybe you can figure it out? It's Ludwig!


Ludwig was a surreal British-made children's cartoon animation about a magical egg-shaped gemstone who lived in a forest.
The character's name came from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose music he played in the background of each episode. The series consisted of 25 five-minute episodes, in each of which something would happen to the animals of the forest and Ludwig would come to the rescue.
His "body" facets would open up and out would pop arms, legs, gadgets or even a helicopter rotor blade when he needed to get somewhere fast. He was constantly watched by a human birdwatcher (voiced by Jon Glover) who had a deerstalker and large binoculars. This character was both the viewer's point-of-view and narrator, as no other character talked. At the end of every episode Ludwig played the final movement of Beethoven's first symphony through the credits.

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