The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's programme that ran on BBC Television from 1965 to 1977.It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show Le Manège enchanté but with completely different scripts and characters. The French series, created by Serge Danot with the help of Ivor Wood[4] and Wood's French wife, Josiane, was broadcast from 1964 to 1974 on ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française). The scripts are simple fantasy stories aimed at pre-school chi

Remember this? Swindon's Magic Roundabout filmed in 1974... We've dug it out of the archive as plans to turn the roundabout into a tourist attraction complete with its own characters failed. Full story: https://tinyurl.com/ywu7xd2m | ITV News West Country