The Magic Store/Trivia

Trivia

 * The film was first shown on television on Christmas Day 1991 on ITV in the UK, 2 years after it was released in cinemas.
 * The film premiered on ITV in the UK on 25 December 1991.
 * Completed in 1989.
 * The book, which the film is based on, was published in 1984.
 * When production began on the film, the key animators used rotoscoped images on all the characters, including Major Doctor Joanna. But it was then discovered that Clinton J. Priest, Tony Garth and Meryl Edge could draw realistic movements without a reference.
 * Pre-production work on the film began in 1986, with Andy Roper, Chris Randall and three others working in a Portakabin on a plot of land which is now the Charles Hill Films car park.