Editing Noggin the Nog (section)

==Television series==
The original television series was first broadcast, beginning on 11 September 1959, by the [[BBC]] in the United Kingdom, and continued until 1965.<ref name=BBCStory/> Production company [[Smallfilms]] made 21 programmes in black and white, and six in colour, each with a running time of 10 minutes.

When the programme made a comeback in 1982 it ran for just six episodes and was made in colour. The new series comprised one new two-part story and a colour remake of the second saga, originally a six-parter, "Noggin and the Ice Dragon". The level of [[stop-motion]] [[animation]] was basic, but did not detract from the popularity of the series.

The on-screen title is "The Saga of Noggin the Nog", since the stories were based on the principle of a [[Norse saga]], and episodes began with the words, "Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old", or "In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale&nbsp;... and those tales they tell are the stories of a kind and wise king and his people; they are the Sagas of Noggin the Nog. Welcome to Northlands, a tribute to Noggin, King of the Nogs and the People of the Northlands". These opening lines were accompanied by [[Vernon Elliott]]'s [[bassoon]] score.

Visually, the series was primarily inspired by the [[Lewis chessmen]] (of Norse origin);<ref name=BFIScreenonline/> one of the stories is about Noggin playing chess with Nogbad the Bad.

A new series was rumoured in the late 1990s, but nothing came of it.<ref name=Independent/>

The complete series was released on [[DVD]] in 2005, in a package that also included DVD versions of the short story books.