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In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale...

Noggin the Nog was of course created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate who also created Bagpuss, and The Clangers.