Ludwig Cartoon - The Arrival 

I was born in 72 and loved watching this, i thought it was stock motion with models and not a cartoon but then we did have alot of great things to watch, bagpuss, ivor the engine, the clangers what a fab time.

I remember this cartoon when it was on the Captain Kangaroo show. Great classic find. We need educated shows like this in our modern world when there's no extremely social media. Just pure clean cartoon fun.

Remember seeing this when I was about 16. A few of us at school would talk about it the next day. Most of my classmates didn't understand what the hell was going on. It was certainly unique and not to everyone's taste. Needless to say, I loved it.

I remember this well. I used to drive my brothers mad following them around going "Ah, Ludwig!"

A nice way to indrouduce children to classical music (I have always liked it anyway due to fantasia and my grandma playing tapes and records of it.

Oh bliss and rapture! I've been hunting for this for years! This is my first TV memory! As a child of the 70s. In 1977 I would have been 4 years old. It was the first time I heard classical music. It started a life long passion with classical music. As well as a life long love affair with Beethoven!

Wow! I was five when this came out! I used to watch this and Simon in the land of chalk drawings! Time flies!!

Long over due for a multi-million dollar Hollywood remake.

Flashback to my childhood, thank you 😁 ☮️❤️

So many of these classic shows needs to be shown again. Still lots of things to teach our kids.

I've never forgotten Ludwig - every bit as charming now as then.

My mother used to watch this but I had never seen it until now.

I was 21 when this went on air, and tried never to miss an episode. This combined good musical education with kids entertainment that adults couldn't resist. Time Ludwig was reborn?

A clever and original cartoon.

For you Brits the bloke who narrated this was Jon Glover, aka Mr Cholmondley Warner from Harry Enfield and friends.

Ah Jesus, just as crazy as Michael Bentines Potty Time. It’s our parents having LSD flashbacks.

I knew I had not imagined this.

Wow thanks for this. I had vague memories of this series as it was on when I was a child. I must have been 6 years old.

I AIN'T SEEN THIS IN YEARS!!!!! RESPECT FOR UPLOADING!!

"Ah, Ludwig! " We used to say that a lot, for about 20 years. I love RU-vid. Thankyou!

I found this mentioned in an article about kids' shows in the 1980s that were really scary or bizarre, when I was looking for a show, something like either 'That's Incredible' or 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not,' which had a story about a crystal skull that gave people nightmares if they slept in the same room with it. I haven't been able to find out what that show was, but it terrified me for a lifetime. Now, in that article, I saw this 'Ludwig' thing, and when I went to watch it, it seemed totally familiar, as though I had completely memorized every single second, of every single event that occurred, and I wasn't consciously aware of this AT ALL. I was born in 1974, so if this was 1977, I had to be only three years old if I saw it. If it was on at the same time as Simon and the chalk drawings, as another commenter said, I do remember that show, but had no conscious memory of this until now. It was so completely and permanently burned into my brain, every single detail.

I remember watching "Ludwig" on "Captain Kangaroo" back in the late 70's. LOVE the music - SO VERY VERY BRITISH!!!!

"Just like That?" Is Tommy Cooper spying on Ludwig? Lol

Fanbloomingtastic, Oh how I miss the simplicity of this cartoon and the introduction that it provided to classical music. And to iterate Fluttermoth thank you so much for uploading this!

As a 9 year old in 1977, Ludwig was a mysterious fascination for me. A gemstone like egg with a penchant for Beethoven?

Ah .... Ludwig! For some reason I remembered him as more 'eggy'.

This brings back memories! :)

used to be my favourite as a kid

I'd forgotten all about this cartoon! Remember it now. Good grief - there's so much useless stuff hidden away in human brains. I'll be talking about Ludwig all day now.

It's so wonderful to recall childhood cartoon series!

1977, god I feel old.

Beautiful description in the doobely-doo. Thank you so much for posting.

i have a memory like an elephant,sadly none of my mates know what the hell im on about when i say about this little guy, told them to google and now im weird for watching it,my nana didnt think so,we loved him lol :o)

I remember that cartoon along with The toothbrush family on Kaption Kangaroo in the late 70s and early 80s.

An introduction to classical music - for pot heads.

Thank you so much for uploading this! I remember it from when I was a kid and now I can show it to my kids as well :)

It is not widely known that early exposure to Ludwig became a subconscious gateway to dogging in later life.

I can't believe this used to be prime time British kids' TV - just before the news started - how times have changed :-/

i don't think there has ever been anything like this. either before, or since. i have the annual somewhere. the only book with an 'intermission'.

So happy I have found Ludwig, would watch hom on Captain Kangaroo....even when I was a gwn up.

I generally look back to the 1970's with nostalgia, but this is utter bollox

I remember this was on a kids Sunday morning show with a puppet that looked like a boy

Thanks for this I've been looking for this for years I can only just remember this as a kid. All I can remember was I used to watch something called 'ludvick' and it was about an egg! now I know for sure after seing this. FANTASTIC!!

Used to be part of the Captain Kangaroo show along with Simon In The Land Of Chalk Drawings

Great program of my youth.

VERY happy, peaceful and SO BRITISH!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

this cartoon taught me classical Beethoven.. and I never knew :)

I always thought this started in 76, I remember the last ever episode of Vision On, the Pat Keysell, Tony Hart thing with Sylvester McCoy and the Prof , Wilf Lunn having its last episode back then. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me again.

I remember this TV series, never occured to me how bizarre it was though. I had the Ludwig annual once (Yes they did an annual on this tv series believe it or not) I think I chucked it out back in the 90's when buying my 1st house and having a clear out, wish I kept it.

I remember reading a review of this programme which summed it up in three words: Creepy. European. Gone. :D

there is a segment in a charlie brooker show where he gets someone to describe non existent reccolections of a fictional show called orlock, he was the shape of a egg!

Ludwig. Mental and awesome

Ah......Ludwig!

This is fun!

It is by Beethoven, and both light-hearted and fun, and just right.

Ludwig vs Orlov

I 3 this.

yep, all the music featured were Beethoven pieces and arranged and played by Paul Reade for the show.

If you like this go to iludwig.co.uk, pay just £5 and download the whole series including the unbroadcast episodes. Peter Lang has done an amazing job of retrieving and restoring this wonderful piece of animation history. Give him your fiver!

It never scared me as a kid it was just so surreal and bizarre it fascinated me...you wonder now what is inside that egg/jewel shell whatever it is...its like a very early version of Inspector gadget in a way...i took magic mushrooms when i was 17 and still didnt get it......hahaha....great upload thanks a lot

Ahhhhh, Ludwig

Im sure this was on a kids early morning TV programme called " Rub A dub dub" I remember watching it as a kid it had many other cartoon animation on it . My favourite was "Curious George" I named my son George after the little scamp :) I wish they would repeat these for kids. The only kids show worth a toss is Thomas The Tank Engine.. The Flumps was Epic in the 70s, Perkin rules.

wow heaven is here

Charlie Brooker did a parody of this that wasn't even a tenth as weird as the real thing

Oh, what memories! Easily the most erudite cartoon, ever. Do you happen to have the cartoon with Simon and his magic chalk?

I seriously laughed when you said "give me regular show." You think a show like that will help your kids more than a show like this? Regular show isn't a show that i'd consider offencive or 'bad' but this show is about things kids should be learning about. Regular show is about strange, unrealistic things that literaly came from the idea of drugs (search for 2 in the AM PM.) It just amuses me that you think something like that is better for teaching kids than this!

No wonder we grew up so messed up. Dark.

Ludwig came from outer space right?

Wasn't this incorporated into Captain Kangaroo?

Although it was ten times more disturbing.

How trippy?!!

@avalanchesuperstar there's one episode where Ludwig ends up in a wheelchair, after a mishap helping his friends. maybe he's just made of strong stuff.

Unfortunately they don’t make things like this and other gems anymore😂 It’s all computerised crap now!

I used to hate Ludwig soooo much. It was a boring interlude till the good stuff came back on!

... wait. How the hell did I get HERE??

For the young engineers and creators of the 1970's.

We have an old VHS tape of this, but wondering if it was ever transferred to DVD? Anybody know.

Remember this, but not which decade. Was it the seventies ? now, here's a question, does anybody - and this may sound weird, but not any odder than Ludwig - remember a cartoon series, in the late sixties or early seventies that featured, amongst other oddities, a walking house ?

All 25 cartoons now available on the web at iLudwig.co.uk

2:25 self-pleasing owl

No reason you can't enjoy both.

Not sure if it is actually a Beethoven piece or melody, could be just incidental music for the Cartoon........anyone else Know?

At 3.15 there's a short phrase by a French Horn. Can anyone tell me from which Beethoven work it was taken?

Very screwed up was Ludwig

And they had two people credited as writing the story lines?

Ha!!!

Fascinating. I would like to meet the person who created this.

All

This....was freaky to a 6 year old me...

Does anyone remember a kids show with 2 giant spider glove puppet things? What was that called?

get out of there ludwig. OUT!!

Hahahahah

0:10s 1st symphony, 4th movement?

luswin

Eh? I don't remember making the above comment!

DMT anyone?

Wasn't this German?