In the 1960s, the French animator Serge Danot created the well-known The Magic Roundabout ( 1965 ) which played for many years on the BBC.

* Pollux, a dog in the French television series Le Manège Enchanté, known as Dougal in the English version, The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout ( known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté ) is a children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot.

In fact, when Serge Danot was interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up in 1968 his associate ( perhaps Jean Biard ) said that in France it was thought at first that the UK version of Pollux had been renamed De Gaulle, mishearing the name Dougal ( as seen in the Channel 4 documentary The Return Of The Magic Roundabout ( broadcast 08: 50 on December 25, 1991 and 18: 00 on January 5, 1992 ), and in the BBC4 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story ( 2003 )).

" The news was broadcast just after The Magic Roundabout.

In 2006 / 2007, a new TV version of The Magic Roundabout was created, 52 x 11 minute episodes, by French animation house Action Synthese with scripts and voices produced in the UK.

In 2005, a film adaptation ( also called The Magic Roundabout ) was released.

The two-disc special edition of the UK DVD of the film features five of the original Magic Roundabout episodes on the second disc.

In 1975, Jasper Carrott released The Magic Roundabout ( originally featured on his first live LP Jasper Carrot – In the Club ), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7 inch single, featuring his comic song " Funky Moped " on the A-side.

In the United Kingdom, the " Magic Roundabout " name has been given to large road traffic circulation systems with unconventional layouts-in Swindon and in Hemel Hempstead for example.

He created a series of geometrical sculptures featuring everyday road signs and, although its official name is " The Landmark ", it is affectionately known by locals as the " Magic Roundabout ".

In 2006, the Go North East Bus Company branded one of their routes " The Magic Roundabout ", the buses running on it all featuring the characters from the series.

In 1971 BBC Records released The Magic Roundabout ( RBT 8 ), an LP containing 10 stories taken from the soundtracks of the TV series as told by Eric Thompson.

The network also has rights to many films not released by Disney ( either because the studio does not have a children's network or has one that is incompatible with their focus ), such as Warner Bros .' ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( known in the US as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ), Universal Pictures ( Beethoven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), The Weinstein Company ( Hoodwinked, The Magic Roundabout ), Sony Pictures ( Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Hook ), Lionsgate ( Happily N ' ever After ), 20th Century Fox ( Ice Age, the Home Alone film series, Catch That Kid ), Paramount ( Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown ( and Don't Come Back !!)).

Children's television is nearly as old as television itself, with early examples including shows such as Play School, Captain Tugg, The Magic Roundabout, Howdy Doody, Ivor the Engine, Clangers, Noggin the Nog, Bill and Ben, Sali Mali, TUGS, Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

The show contained his popular music parodies ( such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute which he performed with Billy Bragg at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival ), " three men in a pub " jokes ( including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer ) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout.

Hemel is famous for its " Magic Roundabout " ( officially called the Moor End roundabout, or " The Plough Roundabout " from a former adjacent public house ), an interchange at the end of the town centre ( Moor End ), where traffic from six routes meet.

A few metres away, overlooking the ' Magic Roundabout ', is Hemel's tallest building ; the 22-storey Kodak building.

In the foreground is the River Gade and to the right a road sign for the ' Magic Roundabout '.

Image: Hhmra4146. jpg | Northeast side of The Magic Roundabout, Hemel Hempstead.

* Zebedee, a character in the BBC children's programme The Magic Roundabout

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

* Rare Bill Watterson Art at Calvin and Hobbes: Magic On Paper

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

A third paper, The Magic Comic, aimed at a slightly younger audience, followed in July 1939, but ceased publication in early 1941, due to paper rationing.

Murrayfield Stadium has also hosted the Magic Weekend where all Super League matches are played ( at Murrayfield ) all on the one weekend.

One of Barrett's pupils, John Parkin, created his own handwritten grimoire, The Grand Oracle of Heaven, or, The Art of Divine Magic, although it was never actually published, largely because Britain at the time was at war with France, and grimoires were commonly associated with the French.

He enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1966 ; he graduated from the university in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in Magic, becoming the first and only person to have ever received any kind of academic degree in Magic from an accredited university.

* 1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.

* Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion ( 1990 )

Magic lantern at the Wymondham Museum.

Los Angeles Lakers Magic Johnson and Boston Celtics Larry Bird in Game Two of the 1985 NBA Finals at Boston Garden.

She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.

* 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

The halftime show was produced by Disney and was based on It's a Small World, an attraction at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets — a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs — premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990.

* USAAF First Motion Picture Unit at Magic Lantern

** Space Mountain ( Magic Kingdom ) opens at Walt Disney World and to this day remains one of the parks most popular attractions.

Its Might and Magic and especially Heroes of Might and Magic series from subsidiary New World Computing were perhaps the most popular among their games at the time of release.

In addition, several Lynx public bus routes enter the District, with half-hour service between the Transportation and Ticket Center ( and backstage areas at the Magic Kingdom ) and Downtown Orlando and Kissimmee, and once-a-day service to more points, intended mainly for cleaning staff.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

Early synthpop pioneers included Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra and British bands Ultravox and the Human League ; the latter largely used monophonic synthesizers to produce music with a simple and austere sound.

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.

In 2007, Faithfull collaborated with the British singer / songwriter, Patrick Wolf on the duet " Magpie " from his third album The Magic Position and wrote and recorded a new song for the French film Truands called " A Lean and Hungry Look " with Ulysse.

Magic Bus: The Who on Tour was the fourth American album by British rock band The Who, released in the US in September 1968 to capitalize on the success of their single of the same name.

* 8 August — the New York Yacht Club wins the first America's Cup challenge race, as Magic defeats British challenger Cambria, of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.

* George Granville-The British Enchanters, or No Magic Like Love

' Didi manages to eat from street vendors, run into a number of people including a megalomaniac known only as " The Eremite " ( not overtly stated, but implied to be an alternate future version of Mister E, after his return from the end of time at Death's hands in the original Books of Magic miniseries ), and a British woman named Mad Hettie who is looking for her heart.

based on manuscripts from the British Museum, with additions by Crowley, including a Preliminary Invocation drawn from Goodwin's Fragment of a Graeco-Egyptian Work upon Magic, and the essay The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic.

This department on the fifth level of the Ministry of Magic includes the headquarters of the International Magical Trading Standards Body, the International Magical Office of Law, and the British seats of the International Confederation of Wizards.

The department is located on the seventh level of the Ministry of Magic, and includes the British and Irish Quidditch League Headquarters, Official Gobstones Club, and the Ludicrous Patents Office – other sports and games-related aspects of the Harry Potter world.

British rock band Alien Stash Tin included a short novelty song called " Bingo The Magic Pixie " as a bonus track on their 2007 debut album.

* The Magic Numbers, a British rock band

In the same year they scored a hit with Green's " Black Magic Woman " ( later covered more successfully by Santana ), followed by the guitar instrumental " Albatross " ( 1969 ), which reached number one in the British singles charts.

File: Explorer Ridge Zooarium chimney. jpg | Zooarium chimney at Magic Mountain hydrothermal field, located on the Southern Explorer Ridge in the North Pacific Ocean, about 150 miles west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Image: Explorer Ridge sulfide chimney. jpg | Sulfide chimney of the Magic Mountain hydrothermal field, British Columbia, Canada.

Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979.

Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 2000 British / American feature film based on the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, The Railway Series by the Rev.

Gullane Entertainment ( originally The Britt Allcroft Company ) was a British television production company which produced children's programming, including Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Shining Time Station, and Magic Adventures of Mumfie.

The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, the Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality.

* Motto: NVNC ILLE EST MAGICVS (" Now That's Magic " ( Catch-phrase of British magician Paul Daniels ))

* Monkey Magic, a British magic TV show produced by Objective Productions

The Magic Circle is a British organisation, founded in London in 1905, dedicated to promoting and advancing the art of stage magic.