Pigeon Street: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Pigeon Street was an animated children's television series originally shown on the BBC in 1981 as part of its 'See-saw' strand for pre-schoolers. There were two series with eight and five episodes respectively, each programme lasting fifteen minutes. The series has been repeated a number of times. The animation was created by Alan Rogers and Peter Lang of the Cut-Out Animation Co., who later went on to do a nursery rhyme series with similar animation called Rub-A-Dub-Dub. Voices were performed by George Layton, with additional voices by John Telfer. Music was by Benni Lees, and played by Soulyard. The shows featured the everyday adventures of a group of characters living on Pigeon Street, an area of flats and terraced housing in a British city, also home to several pigeons which appeared in each show but only occasionally featured in the plot. Characters included Clara the long...

Series details

• Title: Pigeon Street
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Children
• Premiere date: 1981-02-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 1981-12-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 10 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 9550
• TVDB ID: 81469

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1981-02-10; final listed air date 1981-03-31; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 1981-11-19; final listed air date 1981-12-17; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from Pigeon Street on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.