| Runtime: | 10 minutes |
| Company: | Hutchins Film Company Yorkshire Television |
| Creator: | Pat Hutchins |
| Starring: | Peter Jones (Series 1 and 2) Paul Vaughan (Series 3) |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Network: | ITV (CITV) Milkshake! |
| Num Series: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 39 |
Titch is a British stop-motion children's television programme that originally aired on Children's ITV from 1997 to 2001, then from 2001 to 1 January 2006 on Tiny Living, before appearing on Milkshake! in September 2004 as Tiny Living went off-air.[1] It was created by Pat Hutchins, also the creator of the Titch book series.[2]
According to Pat Hutchins, each episode took three weeks to shoot as it was created in stop-motion animation, using clay models instead of proposed cartoons. The models were miniatures, as ITV gave the animating team a limited budget so that production or scale was minimalistic. After the first two series finished airing in 1999, a third series went into production, and premiered during 2000, before it had its final episode in mid-2001. There is no disclosed reason why the programme finished but Hutchins but reportedly it became too costly and time-consuming to create. Due to its immense popularity repeats of the programme aired occasionally until around 2003 and then repeated on Tiny Living. The programme moved to Milkshake! on Channel 5 between 5 September 2005 and 15 January 2006 with updated titles credited to 2005.
The music for Titch was composed by British pianist & composer Michael Nyman.
The series was issued on several videos in the 1990s. DVDs were released in 2005, titled Picnic and Other Stories and Christmas.