I have a feeling it was said at the end of every "Bagpuss" episode. (One of my faves.)
If it wasn't, it is still one of my faves.
Not many were made. Delightful!

One vote - Bagpuss.
Two votes- Not Bagpuss
One "Don't Know".
Any offers?
Vague memories of toys coming to life then settling back down again when a human appeared?
This is not a million years ago, could be as late as the seventies, I feel.

I dont understand your last sentence, Jelly. Have you left something out?

BAGPUSS:
This, by far the most beautiful, important, saggy old set of films, starred me, Bagpuss. With the help of Emily, Peter Firmin's daughter, who brought sad or broken articles into her shop, I and my friends; Madeleine the rag-doll, Gabriel the Toad, Professor Yaffle and any number of bolshie mice, mended them by song and story for thirteen episodes, which the BBC showed in all twenty-seven times over a period of sixteen years, until in 1987 their experts decided they were too old-fashioned for what they called "today's children". That piece of nonsense came to an abrupt end in 1998, when Bagpuss was voted 'The best Children's film ever' in a BBC nation-wide poll, and since then I can say, without undue modesty, that we have enjoyed a popularity that is no more than our due.



Here is a synopsis of Episode Two of this series.

Episode 2: The Owls of Athens.

" Emily brings in a very old, very dirty dirty bit of rag, which Yaffle can see no value in (as ever), the mice start to vigourously clean the cloth before being stopped by Madeleine. She implores the mice to be more gentle with the cloth, and they clean it lovingly, to reveal an old cushion cover with an owl on it. The mice run away, scared by the owl, but come back when they realise it isn't real..

Yaffle deciphers the writing on the cushion as "Athens", and therefore the picture is one of the Owls of Athens , but before he can talk any more, Madeleine starts to tell a story, while Bagpuss thinks the pictures....

The Owls of Athens were beautiful singers but they were greedy, and are eventually punished by the moon, who takes away their singing voices.

While Madeleine has been telling the story, the mice have finished cleaning and repairing the cushion which is now fit for a king, leading Gabriel to sing a song about "The Bony King of Nowhere", with assistance from the Marvellous Mechanical Mouse organ.

After they have finished singing, they put the cushion in the window, and Bagpuss yawns and goes back to sleep."

Now this may have no bearing whatsoever on the eventual correct answer, but a bit of a coincidence, nevertheless.