''Titch'' is a British stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2001, then from 2001 to 1 January 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on

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in September 2004 as Tiny Living went off-air. It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the ''Titch'' book series.

Production

According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in

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animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. After the first two series finished airing in 1999, a third series went into production, and premiered during 2000, before it had its final episode in mid-2001. There is no disclosed reason why the programme finished but Hutchins reportedly said it became too costly and time-consuming to create. Due to its immense popularity repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2003 and then repeated on Tiny Living. The programme moved to

on Channel 5 between 5 September 2005 and 15 January 2006 with updated titles credited to 2005.

Music and DVD

The music for ''Titch'' was composed by British pianist & composer Michael Nyman. The theme song was originally sung by Nicholas Battye, before it was re-recorded with a new vocalist for 2005 repeats. The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s. DVDs were released in 2005, titled ''Picnic and Other Stories'' and ''Christmas''.

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