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	As of August 2006, no DVDs of Season 1 episodes have been for sale. Additionally, no DVDs or videos of the 4th season are available.		As of August 2006, no DVDs of Season 1 episodes have been for sale. Additionally, no DVDs or videos of the 4th season are available.

	==Notes==
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			=Quotes=

			"''Bollocks this fucking van''"
	*Postman Pat First Appeared On BBC Television In 1981
	*Where He Appeared In The First Thirteen To About Twenty-One Episodes Based On The Stories By Ivor Wood And John Cuncliffe
	*Then Each Episode Was Later Broadcast 1982 To 1990,
	*Postman Pat Also First Appeared On BBC Video Between 1984 And 1986,
	*In 1991, The Year Of The Shows 10th Anniversary The First Two Specials Where Released On BBC Video
	*Then Later Broadcast A Year Later In 1992,
	*Then Another 2 0r 3 Speecials Where Released In 1994 On BBC Video The Year Of The Shows 13th Anniversary
	*Then All Three Where Later Broadcast On Television A year Later In 1995,
	*In 1996 A Half Of The Shows Second Series Was Released On BBC Video, Which Where All Later Broadcast On Television A Year
	*Later In 1997, And So All Both Series And 4 or 5 Specials Proved To Be The Best On BBC Television,
	*After That They Where Never Before refeatured Much Again Until 2001
	*In 2001 It Was The Shows 20th Anniversary So All The Classic Episodes Where Replayed Again,
	*In 2002 The Year Of The Golden Jubilee The Show Won The Best Golden BBC Childrens Award,
	*In 2003 The Show Returned To BBC Video, At Christmas Of That Year,
	*In 2004 A Year Later The Whole Show Returned To British Television After 10 Years Since 1994, And Only Appeared With BBC TV,
	*So A Third Series Was Broadcast,
	*In 2005 The Show Had Its First Ever Live Sage Show Based On The Original Live Shows Back In The 1980s And 1990s, Ever Since,
	*In 2006 A Fourth Series Of The Show Was Broadcast,
	*And So It Was Also The Shows 25th Anniversary, Which Will Be A Year To Remember,
	*And So Postman Pat And All Of His Friends Will Be Looking Forward For Many Many Many More And More Years To Come,
	*However There Are Plansd Of Reintroducing The Previous Series From The 80s And 90s, And Reintroducing
	*Some Old Characters To The Show For Many More Chracters And New Generations To Forward To Today,
	*So Postman Pat Will Always Be Here Today, As Britains Favourite Postman,
	*Pat will always be the only charater to appear in every episode of the show.
	*2007 Saw The Show,s First Feature Length Special Which Some Old Characters From the 1980s and 1990s return,
	*In which the 5th series was broadcasted

	==See also==		==See also==

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1981 British TV series or program

Postman Pat
Created by	John Cunliffe, Ivor Wood
Written by	John Cunliffe
Starring	Ken Barrie Archie Panjabi
Music by	Bryan Daly
Country of origin	UK
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Producer	Ivor Wood
Original release
Network	BBC 1 1981–
Release	1981 – Present
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Postman Pat is a BBC stop motion animated children's television series aimed at pre-school children, concerning the adventures of Pat, a postman in the (fictional) Yorkshire village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumbria). The animated series was originally screened in 1981. John Cunliffe wrote the original treatment and scripts, and it was directed by animator Ivor Wood, who also worked on The Magic Roundabout, Paddington Bear, and The Herbs. And the main character Postman Pat Clifton, is a fictional postal worker in the village and is a village postman.

Character guide

Pat Clifton - Village Postman
Jess The Cat - Black And White Cat
Mrs. Goggins - Postal Mistress
Sarah Gilbertson - schoolgirl
Katy Pottage - schoolgirl Tom’s twin sister
Tom Pottage - schoolchild - Katy’s twin brother
Charlie Pringle - schoolboy
Lucy Selby (schoolchild)
Julia Pottage
Reverend Peter Timms
Alf Thompson (farmer)
Dorothy Thompson
Bill Thompson (schoolchild)
Ted Glen (handyman)
Rebecca Hubbard
Sam Waldron (mobile shop owner)
Granny Dryden
George Lancaster (farmer)
Peter Fogg (farmer)
Dr Sylvia Gilbertson
PC Arthur Selby
Major Forbes (Garner Hall owner; first name unknown; mentioned in 1981; axed from 2004)
Sara Clifton (station café waitress from 2004; surname not mentioned until 2004; referred to in 1981, but first name and surname not mentioned)
Julian Clifton (schoolchild)
Jeff Pringle (teacher)
Ajay Bains (railway owner)
Nisha Bains (station café waitress)
Meera Bains (schoolchild)
Nikhil Bains (baby)
Mr Cove
Mrs Cove (Postwoman)
Percy Cove (schoolchild)

Songs

Songs by Bryan Daly (1981 series)

Postman Pat (The Magpie Hen)
Farmers (The Sheep In The Clover Field)
Handyman (Thirsty Day)
Mobile Shop (Difficult Day)
Jess The Cat (Takes A Message)
Tuba (The Tuba)
We’ll Win Through (The Barometer)

Songs by Simon Woodgate (2003 on)

What's in his bag? (Opening titles theme, most territories incl USA & JAPAN *not UK)
What's in his bag? (Closing titles 2003 on - all territories)
Back on track (The Greendale Rocket)
We don't need an open road (Postman Pat and The Greendale Rocket)
It's a magical Christmas (Postman Pat's Magical Christmas)
Now it's time to put on a show (Postman Pat Clowns Around)
Sailing on a pirate ship (Postman Pat and the Pirate Treasure)
You can do it (Popstars)
Fruity Feeling (Pink Slippers)
We are the Greendale Knights (Greendale Knights)
Let's get help from Ted Glenn (Incredible Inventions)
What's her name? Mrs Goggins! (several episodes series 3,4&5)
The Greendale Anthem (Spotty Situation)
Follow the music (Pied Piper)
Cooking (Cuisine) (Fantastic Feast)
Arthur Selby (Stolen Strawberries)
In a Rainbow (Pot of gold)
It's Jess the cat! (theme in most episodes)

In other countries

In Scotland, Postman Pat is shown not only in English but also sometimes broadcast as Pàdraig Post, in the Gaelic language, on BBC Scotland.
In the Netherlands the series was also shown dubbed in Dutch. There the series is called Pieter Post.
In New Zealand, the series has been broadcast on TV3 in English, and there are now plans to screen the older episodes in Maori as of 2005.
In Catalonia, Postman Pat is broadcast as Pat el carter, in Catalan language, on Televisió de Catalunya.
In Australia Postman Pat is on Cartoon Network and ABC kids.
In 2005, Postman Pat was sold to the Japanese division of Disney Channel, finally putting to rest a long-standing misconception in the UK that Japanese television would not take the series because having only three fingers and a thumb on each hand (as Pat does) was a Yakuza symbol. The series is dubbed into Japanese.
In Italy Il postino Pat appears on the RaiSat Ragazzi channel.
TVP 1 in Poland shows the adventures of Listonosz Pat.
Postman Pat is known as Postmand Per in Denmark.
In Norway he is known as Postmann Pat and he has repeatedly been broadcast by the NRK. The 1981 series was narrated by actor Sverre Anker Ousdal, whereas the new series are now dubbed in Norwegian. Some parts of the dubbed series are available as DVDs.
Pósturinn Páll is how Pat is known to the viewers of RÚV television in Iceland.
YLE2 of Finland airs the adventures of Postimies Pate. The original 1981 series were also released on VHS in the mid-80's, in those releases Postman Pat was translated as Posti-Pat.
In the United States, newer episodes of Postman Pat have begun running on the HBO cable network. The episodes are apparently unaltered, leaving intact the accents and other distinctly British elements of the series.
In Iran, Postman Pat was broadcast during the years of late 80's and early 90's. The show was dubbed in Persian by the name of Pat-e Postchi.
In Austria, Postman Pat is broadcastet on ORF since 2006 with the name "Postbote Pat".
In the Basque Country, Postman Pat is kn own as "Patrick Postaria" and used to be broadcasted on ETB 1, in basque language.

Trivia

An overdubbed "Pat's Banging Day Out" has become a cult favourite on the internet, replete with foul language . The story is different episodes edited together and follows Pat attempting to collect drug debts from various villagers by threatening them.

There are 3 videos of this style on the internet, one with extremely frequent foul language which has been leaked to mobile phones, the one that has been mentioned above and one with repetitive use of the words "I'll tell ya!" and "tosspot!"

"Postman Pat Uncut", another movie, was released through DVD in August 2005. The movie depicts Pat going very, very postal.

All the shows were produced by Woodland Animations. Later the 4 TV specials and the 1996 episodes were produced by HIT Entertainment and later all the 2003 series were produced by Entertainment Rights.

As of August 2006, no DVDs of Season 1 episodes have been for sale. Additionally, no DVDs or videos of the 4th season are available.

Quotes

"Bollocks this fucking van"

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