Bagpuss was a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate. The series of 13 episodes was first broadcast from 12 February to 7 May 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Although only 13 episodes were produced and broadcast, the programme is fondly remembered, and was frequently repeated in the UK until 1986. In early Bagpuss himself was a stuffed cloth cat, referred to in the intro as "The Most Important, The Most Beautiful, The Most Magical, Saggy Old Cloth Cat in the Whole, Wide World". The six mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. A rag doll made of scraps, called Madeleine, sat in a wicker chair.. Each programme began in the same way: through a series of sepia photographs, the viewer was told of a little girl named Emily who owned a shop. She never sold any merchandise, but instead found lost or broken objects and later displayed them in the front window after they had been mended, so their owners might come in and claim them.