The Magic Key

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GenreAdventure
Children's
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Written byDiane Redmond
Jan Page
Mellie Buse
James Mason
Jocelyn Stevenson
Lucy Daniel Raby
Julie Middleton
Joe Boyle
Directed byTony Collingwood
Voices ofSophie Aldred
Maria Darling
David de Keyser
Kate Harbour
Adam Henderson
David Holt
Gary Martin
Richard Pearce
Emma Tate
ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from textRoger Jackson
Template:Pluralize from text of originUnited Kingdom
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from textChristopher O'Hare
Running time14 minutes
9 minutes (without educational segments; BBC One and CBeebies broadcast)
Production Template:Pluralize from textCollingwood O'Hare Entertainment Limited
HIT Entertainment
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
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The Magic Key is a British educational animated television series based on the "Biff, Chip and Kipper" stories from the Oxford Reading Tree published by Oxford University Press, originally written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta. The series is co-produced by Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment Limited and HIT Entertainment in association with the BBC[1] and aired within the BBC Schools strand on BBC Two from 2000 until 2001.

Plot

The series centres on the lives of three children, Biff, Chip and Kipper Robinson, their parents, their grandmother, their friends, Wilf and Wilma Page, Nadim Shah, Anneena Patel and the Robinsons' dog, Floppy. Floppy wears a collar around his neck with a golden key upon it. The key is magic, as the title suggests, and seems to do some strange things whenever one of the children asks a question and Floppy wishes for something. It starts to glow and transports the 7 children, Floppy and sometimes the Robinsons' grandmother through a vortex to other worlds, where they have exciting adventures, such as dealing with trolls in a cavern, being characters inside of a computer game, or finding the Fountain of Youth and when the adventure is done, they get a gift and the key glows and they all go home.

Alongside the main story, to fit in with the book's original educational values, there are helpful hints towards teaching children the best use of English.

Characters

  • Kipper Robinson
  • Biff Robinson
  • Chip Robinson
  • Mum
  • Dad
  • Floppy the dog
  • Gran
  • Wilf Page
  • Wilma Page
  • Anneena Patel
  • Nadim Shah
  • Mrs. May

Original stories

The Oxford Reading Tree series was first published in 1985 with a set of 30 stories, and there are now over 300 stories altogether. It is used by more than 80% of schools in the United Kingdom[citation needed], and has been translated into numerous languages in over 120 countries.[2]

The books are aimed at children aged four to nine, and could form part of an English language syllabus in line with the National curriculum, designed to help children learn to speak and read Standard English.

The original book that the series is named after was first published in January 1986.[3] It has many differences from what the TV series would have, with the titular item being kept inside a chest instead of on Floppy's collar. The latter would not always be on every adventure with the key, either and the adventures would take place in a magic doll house.

Broadcast

It ran on the BBC Schools strand on BBC Two from 2000 to 2008 and it was also on the CBBC strand on BBC One strand from October 2000 to March 2001.[4][5] It also aired on CBBC Channel's Class TV strand in 2003 and again in 2007. It also ran during the BBC Learning Zone late night strand between August and September and again in December 2006. A Welsh version titled Yr Allwedd Hud was broadcast on the S4C Ysgolion strand from 2001 to 2004.[6]

Episodes

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Merchandise and home media

To coincide with the TV series, Oxford University Press published a series of books based on the episodes in 2000.[7]

HIT Entertainment released six VHS tapes of the series. The first two – "Troll Talk and Other Stories" and "The Rook King and Other Stories" were released on 30 October 2000. The other three – "Capital Letters And Full Stops". "Adjectives And Labels", and "Sentences And Questions", were released on 24 September 2001, and were aimed to teach children the basics of the English language. Another VHS titled "The Flying Circus and Other Stories" was released in the same year, 2001. HIT would later release all 26 episodes on a two-disc box set on 11 September 2006.

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Williams, Elaine (22 September 2000). "TV holds Magic Key". Times Educational Supplement. TSL Education Ltd. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Series Creators of Oxford Reading Tree, Roderick Hunt MBE and Alex Brychta, receive the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award in this year's Education Resources Awards" (PDF). Oxford University Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hunt, Roderick (1986). The Magic Key. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199160686.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Children's BBC: The Magic Key – BBC One London – 12 October 2000 – BBC Genome". Genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 12 October 2000. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CBBC – BBC One London – 30 March 2001 – BBC Genome". Genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 30 March 2001. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yr Allwedd Hud - Broadcast for Schools". broadcastforschools.co.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Redmond, Diane (2000). HMS Sweet Tooth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192724298.
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