Trumpton - Complete Series (1967) DVDrip (ISO)

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Description: Trumpton

"Here is the clock, The Trumpton Clock. Telling the time, steadily, sensibly, never too quickly, never too slowly. Telling the time... for Trumpton!"

Out in the countryside not far from Camberwick Green is the busy market town of Trumpton. This is the town that gives its name to the county Trumptonshire in which all three of Gordon Murray's fondly-recalled series are set. Trumpton's centrepiece is the splendid town hall and clock which sits adjacent to an always-bustling square complete with a big bronze statue of Queen Victoria. The town hall is the seat of The Mayor and his assistant Mr Troop and its magnificent clock is maintained by Mr Platt the Clockmaker, and kept presentable by Walter Harkin the Painter and Decorator. But the clock tower isn't the only memorable feature of the town, because the infamous Trumpton Fire Brigade must surely share centrestage. Captain Flack, The Pugh Twins, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub would race to the assistance of Trumpton townsfolk in distress. They rescued The Mayor's hat from a tree, fixed the statue of Queen Victoria, searched for missing artists and members of their own crew, removed paint pots from the clock tower, rescued Mr Robinson the window cleaner, helped remove an old tank from the Town Hall attic, and lift broken trees and branches from people's property but they never once actually dealt with a real fire.

That said, they came close on two occasions. In the episode "Telephone" a series of crossed-wires sends them off to Mrs Minton's house mistakenly expecting flames. and in "The Rag and Bone Man" they arrive just in time to stop Park Keeper Mr Craddock from setting fire to Chippy Minton's rocking horse with his savings inside.

So why the lack of smoke and flames? - It boils down to a tight schedule and budget, prohibiting such time-consuming effects work

Trumpton's thirteen episodes were produced over a short nine month period and broadcast ad-infinitum on through the seventies and indeed, eighties encouraging the illusion of there being more episodes out there than there actually were. The crossovers between the Trumptonshire villages blurr the line further. Most notably, Captain Flack's brigade perform at the bandstand in the park at the end of every episode - the self-same stand and park that
feature in the 6 'o'clock Tea Dance at the end of every Chigle.


01: The Bill Poster
02: Miss Lovelace and the Mayor's Hat
03: Mrs Cobbit and the Ice Cream Man
04: Miss Lovelace and the Statue
05: Mr Platt and the Painter
06: The Mayor's Birthday
07: Telephone
08: The Rag and Bone Man
09: The Window Cleaner
10: Cuthbert's Morning Off
11: The Plumber
12: Pigeons
13: The Greenhouse

Broadcast info

The series premiered with "The Bill Poster" on BBC1 3rd January 1967, and it continued to air each week for thirteen weeks, until 28th March.

Trumpton created by Gordon Murray

Scripts : Gordon Murray, Alison Prince
Songs : Gordon Murray, Freddie Phillips, Alison Prince
Animation : "Bura and Hardwick"
Bob Bura, John Hardwick, GeorgeDebouch, Pasquale Ferrari, Colin Large, Len Palace
Sets : Andrew Brownfoot, Margaret Brownfoot

Narration and voices : Brian Cant

ISO File Information:

Name..........: Trumpton
Filesize......: 3Hrs 8Mins
Runtime.......: 4.35 GB (4.681GB)
Video Codec...: MPEG2
Video Bitrate.: 25.000
Audio Bitrate.: 48000Hz 192 kb/s Stereo (2/0) AC3
frame Size....: 720 x 576 1.333 (4:3)


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