Take Hart

Take Hart is a continuation of Vision On (BBC, 1964-76) that retained Tony Hart's art and craft ideas and its creative, wacky animations but dropped the sign language elements aimed at hearing-impaired viewers. Morph is an animated plasticine stop-motion character who appeared in Take Hart. Morph appeared mainly in one minute "shorts" interspersed throughout the show. These were connected to the main show by having Hart delivered a line or two to Morph who would reply in gobbledygook but with meaningful gestures. Later on, Morph was joined by cream-coloured Chas. Morph lived in the artist's wooden pencil box. Morph was produced for the BBC by Aardman Animations (later famous for Oscar winning animations such as Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run).

Take Hart also retained Vision On's 'The Gallery' feature for viewers' paintings and borrowed the famous 'Left Bank 2' gallery music for Take Hart's first theme tune.