In a dark wood live the Pogles a small man and woman living in their little hidyhole home. Strange things occur within the wood and each week it seems to be something different that the Pogles have to deal with. This classic British children's animation stands out because it is rather darker than many similar animations, given that it is set in a dark wood and features witches and hags in key roles indeed some of the episodes were deemed "too scary" for young children by the BBC and were not originally screened.
The delivery is very simple, the animation is stop-motion figures that lack a great deal of detail but, along with the sets, it does set a nice atmosphere. It is the plots that give it a darker edge as they do involve a certain amount of magic, witches and so on nothing "scary" by modern standards but then they were different times then I suppose. Overall, this is now rarely seen and its short run meant that it tends to be overlooked in favour of the main childhood favourites of Bill & Ben, Magic Roundabout and so on but it is still nicely nostalgic in its style as well as having a slightly darker edge that other children's programmes of the period didn't often have.