Rupert Bear, Follow The Magic Fifty-two ten-minute episodes were broadcast and subsequently repeated. In September , Royal Mail issued a set of eight stamps to commemorate the centenary of Rupert Bear. Rupert Bear facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Quick facts for kids. The New Adventures of Rupert , 2. More Adventures of Rupert , 3. The New Rupert Book , 4. The Adventures of Rupert , 5. Rupert's Adventure Book , 6. The Rupert Book , 7.
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Main page: Rupert TV series. Rupert is immensely collectable today and in particular the early annuals are very sought after. Although the first Rupert annual was published in , Rupert Bear was actually created 16 years previously in His creator was Mary Tourtel , born in into a very artistic family and married in her early 20's to Herbert Tourtel who worked in printing and publishing. As a child Mary was fond of sketching animals and eventually attended Canterbury Art School where she won a gold medal as the most outstanding pupil.
Besides being a clever artist she was also an aviator and adventurer who pre-dated the more famous Amy Johnson by some years. With her husband in she had flown in a Handley-Page aeroplane breaking the record from Hounslow to Brussels. But on to Rupert Bear - it all started with the success of Teddy Tail , the product of a talented illustrator, Charles Folkard , who since had held a regular place in the Daily Mail newspaper.
Their rival newspaper, the Daily Express , decided they should have a similar feature. The editor contacted his deputy, Herbert Tourtel and asked him to come up with some ideas. The outcome was that Mary Tourtel created Rupert and the little bear first appeared in the Daily Express issue of 8th November Her husband also played a part - he wrote the verses which appeared with the drawings. Mary Tourtel wrote a total of 85 strips featuring Rupert, many of them finding their way into a series of books during the years that followed.
Failing eyesight finally forced her to retire in and she died in aged Finding a successor was far from easy but after many interviews the right man was found in Alfred Bestall.
Rupert lives in the village of Nutwood with his mother and father, Mr and Mrs Bear. Now considered the definitely Rupert artist, he remained on the strip until and on the annuals until The most recent annual was released in July Rupert was originally depicted as a brown-faced bear, but his colour was soon changed to white to save on printing costs.
Since then, all Rupert annuals have traditionally drawn him as brown-faced on the cover and white-faced inside. The incredibly catchy title song got his name slightly wrong, however, referring to him as Rupert THE Bear.
Tut tut. The title song from the series was sung by Irish singer Jackie Lee. Her other most famous song is probably White Horses, which was a top ten hit for her in
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