 "Bagpuss", "Pingwings", "Noggin the Nog", "Ivor the Engine", "Clangers" and "Pogles' Wood", were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with collaborator, artist and puppet maker Peter Firmin.The programmes were originally broadcast from the 1950s to the 1980s.In a 1999 BBC poll "Bagpuss" was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.