My enthusiasm was greatly stimulated, I remember, by a visit to the Victoria Palace when I was about eight to see Delvain's Marionettes on the variety bill.
For the Toytown plays based on a long-running Children's Hour radio series, however, he decided to use rod puppets to emulate S.G. Hulme Beaman’s original character designs.
[5] Murray created The Trumptonshire Trilogy: Camberwick Green which broadcast in 1966 (the first children's programme in colour on the BBC),[1] Trumpton in 1967 and Chigley in 1969.
Following Chigley, in 1969 it was six years before Murray had a new series on television, a stop-motion remake of A Rubovian Legends simply titled Rubovia.
Bound entirely by hand, they contained miniature watercolour paintings, special embroidered covers and bindings, and slip cases.
[8] His puppets were used most recently in the cult BBC drama Life on Mars, in a scene where the character Sam Tyler is hallucinating.