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glitterglam
Oct 11, 2010, 01:43 PM
This was a bbc school's prgoramme that was about an umbrella that keep getting left in a phone box and it used to speak and I believe that you were trying to return the unbrella to it's owner and it used to sing a song which I think went like this my name is Mr Capricorn yes that's my name.

Quinn F
Oct 11, 2010, 02:14 PM
Capricorn Game
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"At the other end of the scale, Capricorn Game, a rather odd series for the very young, introduced concepts such as pairs and rudimentary counting via the odd device of a middle-aged couple being set a treasure trail series of real-world problems by the titular gnomic animated wizard and his talking goat-headed umbrella, by way of yet another cringe-inducing song – “I’m Mr Capricorn, and I’m a clever fella/I wear a coat that’s torn and I found a magic umbrella,”... "