Postman Pat: Series 1 - Postman Pat Takes A Message [DVD]

Awsome show for the babies and for meThis is really cool, they dont makes cartoons like this anymore, clean, entertaining, good values, enjoyable for the whole family.

Love these shows. My son grew up watching them. Now I’ve bought them for my grandson. Great stories with good family values.

Excellent our daughter loves Pat and it was great to get the early series .

I was not aware that this product only works on British machines. Not very clear in advertisement. Money wasted. Severely handicapped son is very disappointed.

These are exactly the episodes that I used to watch on a nearly worn out VHS as a child from the birthday girl losing her dolly to Ted's 'leave it with me' song I was transported back to my parents 1980s living room and my 2 year old was entranced.For anyone used to the SDS all singing all dancing Pat this will be different. The Postman Pat of the original series is a honest and gentle do-gooder who wants to help out his community as much as possible whether it be taking a bag of shopping to the elderly lady who lives up the hill alone or stopping the Reverand from making an unnecessary journey to London.The stories are idealised snapshots of day to day idealised middle class life in an idealised rural community but they speak of problem solving, team work, kindness and community which are great social lessons for young children.As other reviewers have said, it's the later credits but I'm guessing from the transfer of the actual episodes the 1981 credits were either destroyed previously or damaged beyond recovery or a combination of both.Also the new and very loud and peppy 'what's in his bag' song was a shocker the first time and it did jar with the gentle nature of the early series where Pat was running little errands to help people out and perhaps more suited to the motorbike riding, Helicopter piloting, action delivery man of the modern series and so the nostalgic part of me wants to keep them separate.The brainwashed mummy side of me ended up singing the song complete with Jess's noises to the dog whilst cooking dinner.In all 3 hours of non violent nor perilous stories about friendship and cooperation for preschoolers is pretty good!

Post Man Pat – Series 1I have been waiting for this DVD for so long. I loved the old Postman Pat. Much better than the special delivery that is on TV at the moment. I was brought up in the 90's and am used to stop-motion and the classic kids TV.Episode 1 – Postman Pat's Finding Day, from 18 September 1981 (15mins long)Episode 2 – Postman Pat And The Magpie Hen, from 25 September 1981 (15mins long)Episode 3 – Postman Pat's Birthday, from 2 October 1981 (15mins long)Episode 4 – Pat's Rainy Day, from 9 October 1981 (15mins long)Episode 5 – The Sheep In The Clover Field, from 16 October 1981 (15mins long)Episode 6 – Pat's Tractor Express, from 23 October 1981 (15mins long)Episode 7 – Pat's Thirsty Day, from 30 October 1981 (15mins long)Episode 8* – Pat's Windy Day, from 6 November 1981 (15mins long)*Episode 9* – Pat's Foggy Day, from 13 November 1981 (15mins long)*Episode 10* – Pat's Difficult Day, from 20 November 1981 (15mins long)*Episode 11* – Pat Goes Sledging, from 27 November 1981 (15mins long)*Episode 12* – Letters On Ice, from 4 December 1981 (15mins long)*Episode 13* – Pat Takes A Message, 11 December 1981 (15mins long)*The Royal Mail logo was not used in this series. But the starting titles & ending credits have been updated to include the logo. As for the main episodes no Royal Mail logo is used apart from when I have marked it with a *.

This advertises itself as the original series of Postman Pat, but has the opening title of series 2 and the closing titles of series 3 (with a song that jars a lot). WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?? Why go to the greater effort of splicing the wrong titles onto the programme for ALL EPISODES IN THE SERIES? I am sorely tempted to rip the episodes from DVD, copy the titles from an old VHS in the attic, then re-splice the two to recreate the PROPER version, as transmitted, rather than watch some ham-fisted crack at continuity with a series I'm never going to watch.

All the original early 80’s episodes of postman Pat are here. My only issue is they replaced the original opening titles with more modern ones, which loses the charm of the original.

Purchased this & series 2 for my 18 month old, he loves Postman Pat. We're not in to the SDS so was pleased to find the original series on DVD & at a brilliant price! Brought back memories for me.People have complained about the opening title & credit music, I don't think this affects anything really. Yes, the credit music doesn't quiet fit with what's on screen (singing about Pats mail bag & what's inside when you're just seeing the van driving around.) but it's the credits, not the actual programme so it's fine.