Gran (TV series)

Gran is a British short-lived stop motion animation television series narrated by Patricia Hayes and directed by Ivor Wood. The show features a grandmother, Gran, and her grandson, Jim, going on adventures together.

Despite moderate popularity with young audiences in the mid-1980s, the series has not been seen on UK television since being repeated as part of the Tiny Living broadcasting block on Living TV in the late 1990s, and no further episodes were made. Universal Pictures released all 13 episodes on Region 2 DVD in the U.K. on 7 March 2005, but the release has since been discontinued.

Synopsis

At first glance you may think Gran is like any other grandmother, but she's not. Along with her grandson, Jim, she takes part in different crazy adventures. Each episode sees Gran performing weird and wacky tasks, such as growing her runner beans up a dinosaur skeleton, hang gliding, knitting a giant scarf to wrap around her house in the winter, and cross country motorbike racing. But one thing's for sure – she'll always be wearing her pink slippers.

Production and broadcast

The programme was produced by Woodland Animations and was created and written by Michael and Joanne Cole. Ivor Wood produced thirteen five-minute short film episodes in 1982 and the series was broadcast on the BBC between 17 February 1983 and 12 May 1983,. In 1984, the BBC also screened the series as part of its See-Saw children's television strand (the "new" name for the cycle originally known as Watch with Mother). The series was then regularly repeated until 1989. Children's books based on the series, written by Michael and illustrated by Joanne Cole were also published in 1983. The series was also shown in the United States as part of the Nickelodeon series Eureeka's Castle, in Latin America on Boomerang Latin America and in Canada on Teletoon.

Music

Finnish

Songs in the Finnish dub were sung by the actors of YLE Import re-using the De Angelis's music but with new Finnish lyrics. In the Finnish dub some scenes are cut, which includes musical numbers in some episodes.

Home media

UK VHS release

Castle Communications released one video of Gran with 12 episodes, which later got repackaged as a single title by the Castle Communications 'Playbox' brand of children's video titles (Cat. No. PVC 121).

VHS Title	Release Date	Episodes
Gran - 12 Classic Episodes (CVS 4083)	1996	Template:Hlist

On 1 June 1999, Castle Home Video (a division of Castle Music Ltd.) released a single video of Gran with all 13 episodes of the entire series (including Gran's Old Bones as its first episode along with the 12 other episodes of Gran from its original Castle Communications video release).

VHS Title	Release Date	Episodes
Gran (CHV 2051)	1 June 1999	Template:Hlist

GOOF: The cover of Gran (CHV 2051) mistakenly contains 12 episodes on the back cover and credited as "12 classic episodes" on the front cover whereas the actual video cassette contained all 13 episodes of Gran.

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