Maggie Muggins is a Canadian children's radio and television series which began on-air live as a fifteen-minute program on CBC Radio

CBC Radio

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 on New Year's Day

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, 1947. The highly popular radio program engaged children's imaginations, with its continuing cast of unique animal puppets and human characters. Maggie Muggins moved to CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 to air between September 29, 1955 and June 27, 1962.

Maggie Muggins is a freckle

Freckle

For other uses of the word, see Freckles .Freckles are clusters of concentrated melanin which are most often visible on people with a fair complexion. A freckle is also called an "ephelis". Freckles do not have an increased number of melanin producing cells...

-faced girl in a gingham

Gingham

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 dress, with her red hair pulled back in two long pigtails

Pigtails

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 who had adventures with many human-like animals and her neighbour Mr. McGarrity, who constantly worked on his garden.

The television series was adapted from previous media including radio

Radio

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 and print.

External links

• Maggie Muggins at the Canadian Communications Foundation
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• Just Mary: the life of Mary Evelyn Grannan By Margaret Anne Hume (2006) ISBN 798-1-55002-597-2; on-line on Google Books.