User talk:MacGyverMagic/In Progress/History of British children's television

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Information to include:
  • Oldest children's programme.
  • Longest running children's programme.
  • Ratio import vs. own programmes (including source, ie. US or Japan).
  • Soaps and other adult programme favourites with children (i.e. Doctor Who).
  • Famous toddler programs: Bob the Builder, Tweenies and Teletubbies.
  • More Blue Peter details, badges, free entry, best known.
  • Saturday Morning television (Mighty Truck of Stuff, Saturday Show, Live and Kicking, TOTP Saturday, Dick and Dom, etc).
  • CBBC & CITV presenters Angelica Bell, Michael Underwood, Andrew Hayden-Smith, etc.
  • Famous people that started off in childrens TV (Ant and Dec, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Grange Hill as a proving ground...)
  • Avoid BBC centric article by including ITV programmes.
  • Nostalgia and the popularity of older programmes (releases on DVD).
  • Introduction of a continued series rather than stand-alone episodes (started being popular in the 1980s?).
Programmes to mention
Old Recent Other
Magic Roundabout Smile  
Catweazle (ITV)    
Do Not Adjust Your Set    

Useful links[edit]

Styles[edit]

Would we be able to include different styles of programmes, or is that too broad for here? There are several different formats:

  • Stand-alone animations
  • Animated series
  • Contestant-based
    • Adventures (ie. 80s Knightmare, 00s Raven)
    • Quizzes
    • "Fun" (ie. Fun House)
  • Soap
  • Informative (ie. Art Attack, Blue Peter, Newsround)

Not sure where something like T-Bag would fit in there! violet/riga (t) 16:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See also[edit]

violet/riga (t) 16:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dates[edit]

From http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm

  • 23 April 1950 – First televised Children's Newsreel
  • 11 July 1950 – Andy Pandy first televised
  • 18 December 1952 – Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men first televised
  • 10 September 1953 – Rag, Tag and Bobtail first televised
  • 14 February 1955 – Picture Book first televised
  • 13 April 1955 – For Deaf Children (later called Vision On) first televised
  • 9 September 1955 – The Woodentops first televised
  • 14 September 1955 – Crackerjack first televised
  • 19 November 1956 – Lenny the Lion first televised
  • 24 September 1957 – BBC television for schools began
  • 20 October 1957 – Pinky and Perky first televised
  • 16 October 1958 – Blue Peter first televised

violet/riga (t) 19:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First programme[edit]

I have included For The Children, shown to be the first programme aimed at children. That article states that it was "[f]irst broadcast on the BBC Television Service at 3pm on Saturday 24 April 1937", but I don't yet have a source for that, only the 1946 start. violet/riga (t) 21:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.ppo.co.uk/pelham/info/media/tv-film.htm is one, but I'm looking for a better one. violet/riga (t) 21:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
(copied from Violetriga's talk) Nice work on the controversies - there are many more (Blue Peter [1], The Sooty Show#Controversy) but we don't want to swamp the article with that, so a future split may be worthwhile. Also, there must be hundreds of kids educational programmes in the UK. Something Special, Dora the Explorer, those by Johnny Ball... We could combine "educational" with "informative", thus include The Really Wild Show and the news programmes. violet/riga (t) 10:26, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Another one: How 2. violet/riga (t) 12:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday morning timeline[edit]

I've tried my hand at making a timeline for kids TV shows on BBC and ITV, but I've come across two problems:

  1. Before ITV became more unified each region had their own show.
  2. BBC programmes have alternated quite a bit, with a Summer show and an, umm, non-Summer show.

I'm not entirely sure how to fix these problems at the moment. Perhaps a different type of timeline will be needed violet/riga (t) 11:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've redone it, but am quite uneasy about the information I've used so far. Need to research when they were all actually broadcast. violet/riga (t) 12:25, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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