A comedy series following list-loving slacker Ted Noonan as he navigates the playground and purgatory of millennial boyhood with a Top Ten list for every occasion.
Planet Sketch is a 15-minute television show aimed at children, with each episode featuring an assortment of sketches. It is produced by Aardman Animations.
Playbox was a TV programme for pre-school children aged 2–5, which ran during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United Kingdom on ITV and was produced by Central Independent Television. It was the first ragdoll show to be made by ITV. It was created by Leslie Pitts, and Anne Wood.
The show took place inside a red, yellow and blue box, with the main characters, Cat and Dog, being controlled by puppeteers from inside the box. The puppets would draw pictures, tell stories, sing songs, and play jokes on one another. The puppets were voiced by Pat Coombs and Keith Chegwin.
Playbox was part of the many other children's shows that would appear on weekday lunchtimes on ITV1 between midday and 12.30pm as well as Rainbow, Rod, Jane and Freddy, Allsorts, Rosie And Jim and The Riddlers.
Playbox began on air in 1987 and the show finished in 1992.
Episodes which were the chosen episodes from each series, In 1987 the first series of playbox was broadcast for 13 episodes, In the 1988 series of series two there were 10 episodes, Another 10 episodes from series three in 1989, Another 10 episodes from series 4 in 1990, 9 Episodes were shown in 1991 in series 5 and the final 8 episodes during series six in 1992 until the show was axed, All the series have got 60 episodes.
Toucan Tecs was a British children's television programme about two private detectives, a pair of anthropomorphic toucans named Zippi and Zac, who, although based in the jungle, flew around the world solving crimes on their flying devices. Their main enemies were group of ducks, dubbed "The Mad Ducks", led by Red Leader.
Produced by Cartwn Cymru, S4C and Yorkshire Television, the show debuted on CITV in 1990 and consisted of 26 ten minute episodes.
The Slow Norris was a British children's television programme that aired on CITV from 4 September 1995 to 16 September 1999. The programme portrayed moral tales and fables through various anthropomorphized creatures.
There was also a version produced for Andy Croft by Hollywood Ventures which ran on the educational channel, PBS in the fall 0f 1997.
The Slow Norris returned on Mini CITV on 20 February 2012.
Emu was an anarchic British television puppet of Rod Hull, and after successful appearing on a number of Variety shows, he was given his own Television series on the BBC, then on ITV.
Harry and the Wrinklies is a British children's drama series based on a novel of the same name by Alan Temperley. It was produced for three series by STV and aired on CITV from 11 May 2000 to 12 December 2002. The show starred Nick Robinson as the title role.
Bookaboo is a British children's television series produced by Lucy Goodman of Happy Films and co-directed by Ian Emes. The show features puppets, celebrities, picture books, songs and animation. Lucy Goodman created the show after researching the current global decline in parental reading in the home. Bookaboo is carefully crafted to inspire more children and grown ups to have fun sharing books together. Bookaboo is broadcast on CITV in the UK, and ABC2 in Australia.
C.A.B. is a British television programme which was produced by Thames Television for Children's ITV. The drama revolved around Colin Freshwater and Franny Barnes and the strange happenings in their junk shop. The show ran for three series, which were broadcast in the UK between 1986 and 1989.
Let's Roll with Roland Butter is a TV series on CITV made in 2004 but for only one series. The show was written by and starring Peter Cocks as a tubby teenager who is obsessed with sport and tries out many different activities every week. Naturally, none of this goes according to plan.
The episodes were supposedly filmed by Roland's best friend, Keef.
Since the show stopped broadcasting in 2004, it hasn't been repeated.
Adventure gameshow where four plucky school kids race through the ‘jungle’ tackling fiendishly tricky puzzles and challenges. But, they best beware for there are traps around every corner.
Meeow! is an animated children's series based on the Maisie MacKenzie books by Aileen Paterson, produced in both English and Gaelic. Scottish Television in association with The Gaelic Committee, decided to make the book in to a cartoon series, with Siriol Animation doing the animation. Meeow was narrations by Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter, with music being produced by The Singing Kettle. Its first run was featured on ITV children's block, CITV.
The series is about a young cat named Maisie Mac who lives with her grandmother in Morningside in Edinburgh as her explorer father is always away.
The programme was re-aired in 2009 on wknd@stv - a children's television strand on Scottish television channel, STV. The Gaelic version is still airs on BBC Alba.
Rocky and the Dodos was a stop motion animated television series seen on CITV in 1998 and 1999 about a group of dodos who lived on a far off island. The show was animated by Cosgrove Hall. It was created by two women named Isabell Mills and Shanii Novak. Rocky And The Dodos is rumored[by whom?] to return on Mini CITV on 20 May 2012.
Prove It! is an educational children's TV series presented by Joe Challands and Jamie Rickers. It is an entertainment programme focusing on the illustration of scientific facts, while raising the question of whether a certain claim can be empirically verified. The programme can usually be seen on the CITV. Regular segments include the 60 Second Prove It!, where a presenter attempts to perform a task in 60 seconds to prove it is possible, Fred's Shed where Fred Talbot shows how to use simple home items to perform various fun and interesting experiments and U Prove It, where viewers demonstrate their unusual skills.
Prove It! is an original format by GeronimoTV and was co-produced with STV Productions.
Crazy Cottage was a children's game show created by Paul Zenon, produced by Action Time for Carlton and broadcast on ITV from 4 April 1996 to 29 May 1998. It was first presented by Rick Adams, followed by Jez Edwards with a puppet cuckoo called Vera. The gimmick of the show was that most things had to be performed backwards.
The show started with the presenter saying "goodbye", then starting the games at Round 5. One of the rounds involved a series of actions that had to be performed in a certain order, so that when it was played back in reverse, it matched what they were asked to do. Another round was a kitchen set up on a slope, but appeared to the viewers as a normal room.
At the end of the programme, the winning team won a prize, such as a trip to Alton Towers. The losing team would win a backwards invention, for example, a black lightbulb.
Squeak! was a children's TV show by Spiffy Pictures for the Playhouse Disney block created by David Rudman under their Spiffy Pictures banner, The show was re-broadcast on STV in 2009 as part of their children's strand wknd@stv. There is a DVD boxset available which features all the episodes. BabyFirstTV also shows repeat episodes.
The show follows three young mice Tizzy, Toot Tog, and the narrator, and they all live in the "Tick Tock Clock", except for the un-seen narrator. The show follows them as they go about learning, having fun including singing and games and even more!
Back to the '50s was the first TV movie from the British pop group S Club 7. It first aired 1999 and was produced for CITV. In this movie, the cast proceeds with their long drive from Miami to Los Angeles - when they suddenly find themselves in the 1950s, having travelled back in time.
Teddybears was a children's television programme from the books. broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 1999. The show was about the life of five bears and there dog Fred. The show was filmed by Meridian Broadcasting.
The Treacle People was a children's television programme shown on CITV in the United Kingdom, from 3 May 1996 to 25 July 1997. It only had two series, each with 13 episodes. In a similar vein to other shows by the same writer, the humour worked on two levels for younger and older viewers. It was produced by The London Studios for London Weekend Television and Fire Mountain Productions in association with Link Entertainment. In 2023, the series was remastered, with full episodes posted on the show's official YouTube Channel.