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The character of Bod is a boy who lives in a town with Aunt Flo, PC Copper, Frank the
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segments were produced separately by the BBC and were originally shown alongside the Bod episodes; only five of these thirteen segments are known to survive, following a decision in the early 1990s to wipe a large amount of videotaped 1970s children's programmes.
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and produced by David Yates. The four books were published in 1965 in the United
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