"In the Night Garden... In the Night Garden... is a BBC children's television series, aimed at children aged from one to six years old. It is produced by Ragdoll Productions. Andrew Davenport created, wrote, and composed the title theme and incidental music for all 100 episodes. It was produced by Davenport and Anne Wood, the team that also co-created ""Teletubbies"". The programme is narrated by Derek Jacobi. It is filmed mostly in live action, and features a mix of actors in costume, puppetry and computer animation. The characters include Iggle Piggle, Makka Pakka, Upsy Daisy, the Tombliboos, the Pontipines /"
"Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding from the head of each character, the Teletubbies communicate through gibberish and were designed to bear resemblance to toddlers. Particularly notable for its high production values, the series rapidly became a commercial success in Britain and abroad. It won multiple BAFTA awards and was nominated for two Daytime Emmys throughout its run. A"
"Tikkabilla Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC One, BBC Two and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title ""Tikkabilla"" comes from the Hindi word meaning ""Hopscotch"", a popular children's game. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters explain things to Tamba. Whilst Tamba appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to"
"Bobinogs Bobinogs (original Welsh title: Bobinogi) is a British children's television programme, shown most recently on CBeebies. It debuted for a Welsh audience, but in 2003, it started being broadcast in the English market. It originally featured a child (Owen, played by David Pursey) and three characters who lived in his hat: inanimate when he was present, but active when he was out. This aspect of the series was later dropped; the characters were then active (in cartoon form) from the beginning of the programme. The three main characters play in a band. A typical episode involves them trying to"
"series began airing on CBeebies on 17 July 2017. Olobob Top Olobob Top is a British children's television series that originally aired on CBeebies in UK, S4C in Wales, and ABC Kids/ABC4 Kids/ABC for Kids in Australia. The programme is narrated by Stephen Mangan. The series follows a group of young creative creatures called the Olobobs. Tib, Lalloo and Bobble live in a big forest and have fun playing, exploring and solving everyday problems. In each episode, they work together combining shapes, colours and patterns to create a new character, who joins in with the Olobobs’ fun, while a friendly"
"Olobob Top Olobob Top is a British children's television series that originally aired on CBeebies in UK, S4C in Wales, and ABC Kids/ABC4 Kids/ABC for Kids in Australia. The programme is narrated by Stephen Mangan. The series follows a group of young creative creatures called the Olobobs. Tib, Lalloo and Bobble live in a big forest and have fun playing, exploring and solving everyday problems. In each episode, they work together combining shapes, colours and patterns to create a new character, who joins in with the Olobobs’ fun, while a friendly narrator encourages them to think for themselves. The first"
"Pipkins Pipkins (originally Inigo Pipkin) is a British children's TV programme. Hartley Hare, Pig, Topov and the gang were the stars of ATV's pre-school series which ran from January 1973 to 29 December 1981. ""Pipkins"" was one of the first children's programmes on British TV where the characters had regional accents: Pig had a Birmingham accent, while Topov the monkey was a Cockney and Octavia the ostrich had a French accent). In 1972, the ITV network expanded its daytime broadcasting hours and the Independent Broadcasting Authority commissioned four of the main ITV companies to each provide a series of interest"
"an animated clip from ""Hotch Potch House"". Tikkabilla began in 2002 and was produced by the BBC's pre-school unit. Tikkabilla Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC One, BBC Two and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title ""Tikkabilla"" comes from the Hindi word meaning ""Hopscotch"", a popular children's game. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters"
"Doodle Do Doodle Do was a British television programme designed for pre-school children. It aired on the CBeebies channel between 2006 and 2010. The programme features three ""Doodle Doers"" — puppets called ""Dib-Dab"", ""Scribble"" and ""Stick"" — who interact with a human presenter, Chris (played by Chris Corcoran, a Welsh stand-up comedian). The programme first aired on the 30 January 2006 on the CBeebies channel at 9am and again at 1pm and 5pm. Dib-Dab, Stick and Scribble are literal glove puppets, as they consist of colourful knitted gloves decorated with eyes, noses, and hair. They are operated by three puppeteers"
"solve some sort of problem, then performing a song about it at the end. At one point in the episode, they will obtain a clue to the problem's solution by looking through their ""bobinoculars"", which show video footage from the real world. Since 2003, Bobinogs has been sold to television stations throughout the world. Simon Grover, best known for playing adult characters on the ""Tweenies"", was a frequent writer for the show. Bobinogs Bobinogs (original Welsh title: Bobinogi) is a British children's television programme, shown most recently on CBeebies. It debuted for a Welsh audience, but in 2003, it started"
"by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport, and produced by McCrorie-Shand and Steve James. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997, and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks after its release. In December 2017, Teletubbies Play Time was released worldwide for mobile devices by Built Games. Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding"
"Pogles' Wood Pogles' Wood (in its first series it was entitled ""The Pogles"") is an animated British Children's television show produced by Smallfilms between 1965 and 1967, first broadcast by the BBC between 1965 and 1968 (but repeated regularly until the early 1970s). The original six episode series, ""The Pogles"", was broadcast from July 29th, 1965, within the childrens' magazine programme ""Clapperboard"". The 26-episode sequel, ""Pogles Wood"", was shown as part of the ""Watch with Mother"" strand, whose target audience was pre-school children (meaning, in the 1960s, children under 5 years of age): a somewhat younger audience than that for"
"the building. Ragdoll Productions Ragdoll Productions is a British television production company located in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, that produces children's programmes. It was founded in 1984 by Anne Wood, who had previously made similar programmes for Yorkshire Television and TV-am. Among its most famous productions are ""Teletubbies"", ""Rosie and Jim"", ""Brum"", ""Boohbah"", ""Tots TV"", ""In the Night Garden..."", ""Pob's Programme"", ""The Adventures of Abney & Teal"" and ""Twirlywoos"". Ragdoll Productions is owned by Ragdoll Ltd, which in 2006 formed a joint venture with BBC Worldwide, Ragdoll Worldwide, to sell and license the company's programmes outside the United Kingdom, Canada, & the"
"Hotel Trubble Hotel Trubble is a British children's comedy drama made by the BBC and broadcast on its flagship children and young person's channel CBBC. It stars Dominique Moore as Sally, the receptionist; Gary Damer as Lenny; Sam Phillips as Jamie, the bellboy; and Tanya Franks as Dolly and Sheila Bernette as Mrs. Poshington, a guest who never leaves (and who becomes the hotel's cleaner in series two and three). It is a farce sitcom. A total of 39 episodes have aired on TV between December 2008 and August 2011.. Many guest stars have appeared, including Tom Price, Josie d'Arby,"
"Fimbles Fimbles is a British children’s television series created and produced by Novel Entertainment. The series lasted 200 episodes, airing from 2002-2004. The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, magical characters who all live in a bright, lush, and colourful place called Fimble Valley. The snouted and concentrically-ringed appearance of the Fimbles was based on the eponymous villains of ""Lucy Anna and the Finders"", written and illustrated by Sarah Hayes. Although Hayes is cited in the credits of ""Fimbles"", and she was involved in adapting the characters for the television series, the implacably omnivorous Finders (who, throughout the book,"
"Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. ""Pingwings"", ""Pogles' Wood"", ""Noggin the Nog"", ""Ivor the Engine"", ""Clangers"" and ""Bagpuss"", were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll ""Bagpuss"" was voted the most popular children's television programme of"
"Toonatics Toonatics is a children's television programme that was first broadcast on Children's BBC between the summers of 1997 and 1998. The show was created, directed and presented by Paul Burnham (as Thomas 'Tommy' Toon). The show broadcast cartoons, which included ""Tom and Jerry"" and ""Looney Tunes"", and played games in between each cartoon. Every day Tommy toon's mum went out to the shop and told his son ""Thomas, Thomas, I'm going to the shop. So you'd better not start watching those crazy cartoons!"" But regardless of his Mum's orders, Tommy doesn't care and invites four Toonatics to join him"
"Funnybones Funnybones was a British children's television comedy series, which originally aired on S4C in Wales, and BBC One elsewhere in the United Kingdom from 29 September to 15 December 1992. It was based on the eponymous series of nine storybooks, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, which were illustrated by André Amstutz, and focused on the adventures of a pair of skeletons who were the eponymous ""Funnybones"", Published in 1980. There was ""Big Funnybone"" (whose catchphrase was ""Good idea.""), ""Little Funnybone"" (who was the brains of the group), ""(White, White) Dog (""These Bones"") Funnybone"" (whose catchphrase was ""Woof."") and ""(Black,"
"Pippin (comics) Pippin was a UK children's comic, published by Polystyle Publications between 1966 and 1986, featuring characters from British pre-school television programmes. Stories were generally of four or eight numbered panels, with a short sentence below each illustration (similar to ""Rupert""), although some stories did appear in prose form. Regular stories included ""The Pogles"" (whose Pippin character gave the comic its name), ""Bizzy Lizzy, Joe, The Woodentops, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Camberwick Green, Trumpton"" and ""Chigley, Titch and Quackers, Toytown, Mary Mungo & Midge, The Moonbeans, Tales of the Riverbank, The Herbs, Mr Benn, Teddy Edward, Barnaby the"
"as well as nature and environment. The non-profit organization Young Media Australia indicates the show is most appropriate for children aged two to seven, combining unrealistic slapstick comedy with general and social education encouraging such traits as cooperation and persistence. Boblins Boblins is a animated educational television show for preschool children produced by the British company InspireGLG Limited. The show, which runs in 10-minute segments, is broadcast internationally, being shown in the United Kingdom on CITV, in Canada by Treehouse TV, in Denmark by DR1, in New Zealand on TVNZ ""Kidzone"", and in Australia on ABC2. The show was picked"
"Ghostbusters, the irony being that the mashup was actually created by Chris Banks himself. Acts which appear on the show include: McFly, The Cheeky Girls, Jamelia, The Drifters, The Puppini Sisters, Julie Felix, the London Community Gospel Choir, and The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. The puppets in the show, including Lippy and the three Jingles, were designed and created by Yvonne Stone and Sacha Choat. Space Pirates (series) Space Pirates is a British children's television series originally shown on CBeebies. It is a mixture of live action and animation, set aboard a space ship which orbits Earth. It starred"
"Toot the Tiny Tugboat Toot the Tiny Tugboat is a British 2D-animated preschool television series developed from Sebastien Braun’s ""Toot and Pop!"" picture book by Lupus Films and animated by Cloth Cat Animation. The series has been airing on Channel 5 Milkshake! since October 2014, and started showing on the 9am time slot from October 2015. Additionally, the series broadcasts on the Cartoonito channel, with the Welsh language version airing on S4C Cyw. The series is also available on UK Netflix. The show follows the nautical adventures of a young tugboat called Toot as he helps out with jobs around"
"Tree Fu Tom Tree Fu Tom is a live-action/CGI children's television program which has been shown on BBC and CBeebies in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top of a part of a trunk of a big tree in a British-type woodland, where the trunk turns horizontal and then vertical again. Its characters are mostly anthropomorphized arthropods (which are not to size scale with each other as in reality). The programme is aimed at 2-6 year olds. In it, some species of"
"The Forgotten Toys The Forgotten Toys is a British animated comedy television series based on the children's book ""The Night After Christmas"". It was made by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment, featuring the voices of Joanna Lumley and Bob Hoskins. It is a poignant tale of abandoned toys who are searching for children to love them. It aired on CITV in the UK, on ABC in Australia. Teddy (voiced by Bob Hoskins) - An ill-tempered scruffy bear. Sometimes he moans about everything, and whenever he passes or sees green vegetables, he exclaims in disgust: ""Sprouts! I hate sprouts!"". In the episode called"
"Cubeez Cubeez was a British animated TV show developed between 1999 and 2001 and first aired on GMTV's Kids strand, now known as CITV. It is aimed at pre-school children aged 2–5. The four box-like characters, Bozz, Doody, Dink and Tizzy are accompanied on their adventures by a talking paintbrush (voiced by Marc Silk) and a variety of creative characters. Each episode has a strong educational element and features live-action footage of children. ""Cubeez"" has been shown around the world and is particularly popular in Latin America and Australia. In the United Kingdom it was aired on Nick Jr. from"
"Bottersnikes and Gumbles (TV series) Bottersnikes and Gumbles is a British-Australian animated television series which first aired on 7TWO in Australia and CBBC in the United Kingdom. The cast includes Jason Callender, Richard Grieve, Jeff Rawle, Kathryn Drysdale and Miriam Margolyes. It was released on Netflix in North America on 19 August 2016 but was re-dubbed with American accents. ""Bottersnikes and Gumbles"" was in development as early as 2012 by Cheeky Little Media. The TV series is based on the children's book series of the same name written by S. A. Wakefield. In early 2015, the streaming video service Netflix"
"to appear (though she would still be referred to in dialogue), incorporating the underlying sub-plot of Daisy having kidnapped an elephant and Sally's absence being explained by her having been sent to Guatemala by Daisy. Hotel Trubble Hotel Trubble is a British children's comedy drama made by the BBC and broadcast on its flagship children and young person's channel CBBC. It stars Dominique Moore as Sally, the receptionist; Gary Damer as Lenny; Sam Phillips as Jamie, the bellboy; and Tanya Franks as Dolly and Sheila Bernette as Mrs. Poshington, a guest who never leaves (and who becomes the hotel's cleaner"
"Alphablocks Alphablocks is a British CGI-animated children's educational television programme that is designed to teach children how to spell with the use of animated blocks representing each letter. It is animated by Blue-Zoo and produced by Alphablocks Ltd. Once the Alphablocks discover that whenever they make a word it comes to life, many new adventures in Alphaland can be created. This is meant to help preschool children with learning the alphabet, spelling, reading and writing. Series 1 originally ran in the UK from January to February 2010. CBeebies and Magic Lantern Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February"
"of the most requested unreleased DVDs at TVShowsOnDVD.com. Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) is an animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP and Fairwater Films and distributed in the UK by The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd (who also produced ""Potsworth & Co."" and ""Budgie the Little Helicopter"") which was later changed to SKD Media and Entertainment Rights and then dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) and by PMMP and TF1 Intl in the rest of the world. The show originally aired on"
"Robin Stevens Robin Gordon Stevens (born 30 January 1960) is an English puppeteer, actor, director and writer for children's TV for nearly 30 years, and has done many successful programs. These include ""Pob's Programme"", ""Teletubbies"", ""Rosie and Jim"", ""Tots TV"", ""Boohbah"" and ""Blips"". Stevens was born in London. He trained with John Blundall the world-famous puppet master. Stevens worked for Ragdoll Productions for about 20 years, at times co-writing scripts and originating content with Alan Dapre, before that working for the BBC. He puppeteered Pob in ""Pob's Programme"", Jim in ""Rosie and Jim"", Tom in ""Tots TV"" (he also wrote"
"Pogles"" and ""Pogles' Wood"" survive, and all are available on DVD. Episodes of ""Pogles Wood"", selected by its creators, were initially released on DVD in 2006 by the ""Dragons' Friendly Society"" (an organisation founded by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin). Subsequently three further DVDs followed, again released by the ""Dragons' Friendly Society"", including the final collection of 14 episodes, released in November 2015 under the title ""Pogles' End"". Pogles' Wood Pogles' Wood (in its first series it was entitled ""The Pogles"") is an animated British Children's television show produced by Smallfilms between 1965 and 1967, first broadcast by the BBC"
"Thom In 2019, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (as DreamWorks Classics) announced it would be releasing the entire first series on DVD (Region 2, PAL format). Orm and Cheep Orm and Cheep is a 1980s British children's television series that was aimed at the younger viewers of Children's ITV. It used puppets as the main characters (Orm being a worm and Cheep being a bird) and was narrated by Richard Briers. The show was created by Tony Martin, the puppets created by Mary Edwards. There were a total of 26 episodes, which spanned between the years of 1983–1985, each episode consisting"
"Boblins Boblins is a animated educational television show for preschool children produced by the British company InspireGLG Limited. The show, which runs in 10-minute segments, is broadcast internationally, being shown in the United Kingdom on CITV, in Canada by Treehouse TV, in Denmark by DR1, in New Zealand on TVNZ ""Kidzone"", and in Australia on ABC2. The show was picked up in 2006 for broadcasting in France by TiJi, the French children's network. The show features seven bright, colorful characters who interact in a colourful land called Rainbow's End. Its purpose is to instruct children about basic facts of colour"