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Almost microscopic in size, there exists a world hidden within our own; the Meadowlands is a delicate world of flowers as large as redwoods, and insects the size of dragons, where peaceful fairies take wing and comical trolls haunt the lowland swamps and inhabit dark, hidden caves. Without warning, a shroud of evil is creeping across the land... deep in the Dark Wood at the edge of the Meadowlands, the Elves have built their citadel in a gnarled ancient tree. Their malevolent leader, Lord Kann, lusts after control of the entire fairy empire and has vowed to conquer every corner of this magical realm.

Two psychic children, two parentless siblings, and their environmentalist guardian try to rescue the globally warmed world of 2025, protect vulnerable lives, and stay ahead of an oppressive government in a dramatic sci-fi thriller.

...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..." ...And that was how it began, back in 1959: one of Oliver Postgate's most loved creations, Ivor the Engine. It was a series about the Welsh adventures of a little green railway engine and his many friends. But Ivor wasn't an ordinary steam engine. He pretty much wished he was a person and ended up doing things like singing in a choir and swimming in the sea! One season of six, 10 minute, Black and White films was made for and screened by Associated-Red.

All is not what it appears at Lizzie's new school. There’s something seriously spooky about the strange Headmaster and Lizzie is determined to find out what’s going on, before it’s too late.

The Forgotten Toys is an animated series made by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment, featuring the voices of Joanna Lumley and Bob Hoskins. The voice of Andrew Sachs is also featured. It is a poignant tale of abandoned toys who are searching for a child to love them.

Football Fantastics is a joyful comedy about a chaotic bunch of kids brought together by their weekend football group and the adults who go along to support them.

Come join the fun at the magical Music Time preschool, where every day is an adventure filled with kid-friendly songs — and lots of learning!

Clever sheep Shaun, loyal dog Bitzer and the rest of the Mossy Bottom gang cook up oodles of fun and mischief on the farm.

A diaper-wearing toddler with a mohawk named Maxwell "Fantastic Max" Young has adventures in outer space with two of his toys: FX, a pull string alien doll from a planet called Twinkle-Twinkle, and A.B. Sitter, a C-3PO-like android made of blocks.

Wide Eye is an owl who lives in the tallest tree in the forest with his young son, Little Hoot and his sidekick, Flea. Wide Eye is fatherly, gentle and reliable. He mostly watches over all the animals to make sure they are all safe and happy and speaks in a deep voice.

Laugh and learn with Gecko and the mechanicals at Gecko's Garage. Gecko is visited by his friends Max The Monster Truck, Amber The Ambulance and more big trucks for children.

Noddy is a little wooden man who lives in his own little House-for-One in Toyland. Noddy loves driving his friends around Toytown in his little red and yellow taxi. Noddy's best friends are Big Ears, Tessie Bear, Bumpy Dog and the Tubby Bears.

Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993. The show saw 'Magic' Grandad take his young grandchildren back in time, many of the adventures are about comparing the past and the present and seeing how evidence of what happened in the olden days still survives. The show was said to make learning about history "fun for youngsters" and was aimed at children aged 5-7 years. The series was introduced to support the History National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. New seasons have been made periodically to support new areas of the infant history curriculum such as seaside holidays and toys. The early season have a companion booklet of teacher's notes with descriptions of the episodes, various suggestions for follow-up work and photocopiable worksheets.

Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952. Mills and the puppet continued with programmes that were broadcast until 1955, when Mills died. The series then transferred to ITV in 1956 and 1957. A modern animated version of Muffin appeared on the BBC in 2005. The original mule puppet was created in 1933 by Punch and Judy puppet maker Fred Tickner for husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth to form part of a puppet circus for the Hogarth Puppet Theatre. The act was soon put away, and the puppet was not taken out again until 1946, when Bussell and Hogarth were working with presenter Annette Mills. Shes named the puppet mule "Muffin", and it first appeared on television in an edition of For The Children broadcast on 20 October 1946.

A stop-motion animated comedy whose big-hearted yarn-made main characters met on the workshop floor of a tweed mill. They quickly become inseparable bond, learning how to communicate without using speech and manage their anxieties.

Peppa is a loveable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her younger brother George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. Peppa's favorite things include playing games, dressing up, days out and jumping in muddy puddles. Her adventures always end happily with loud snorts of laughter.

Keira Knightley narrates this adorable animated series. From the hissing of the tide to the snuffles of his pet Mole, hear the world through the ears of a little Sound Collector.

Boo! is a children's television series shown in the United Kingdom on the CBeebies channel, and originally on BBC Two. It features several cartoon characters who play a game similar to hide and seek in a variety of settings. The commentary is performed by an adult narrator and a chorus of children. The series was produced by the independent production company Tell-Tale Productions, which was also responsible for Tweenies. From 2011 to 2012, reruns of the show were broadcast in the USA on Qubo. The series ran for a total of 104 episodes and one Christmas special and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002-03. At the end of the programme a song is sung, usually about matching characters or objects to their shapes or colours. The visual style of Boo! is very distinctive, using 3D CGI with rounded shapes and cel-shading. The music and songs are generally in an early-70s funk/R&B idiom.

Cooking, songs, silliness and fun with Jen and Small.

British children's series about a well-meaning witch, her anarchist cat, an owl and a bit of magic. Together, these odd characters create a colorful and eventful world - spiced with mystery.

Big Cook, Little Cook is a t.v. series for nursery school-aged children broadcast on BBC television channels. The programme is set in the kitchen of a café, with two main characters, Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small. Ben is a full-sized adult, but Small is only a few inches tall and flies on a wooden spoon. The format of a programme generally includes a visit to the café by a nursery rhyme or fairy tale character. Little Cook tells a story about the visitor in which he’s the real hero, and then they decide to cook the visitor a meal from Big Cook's recipe book. Little Cook will then fly away on his magic spoon to see where one of the ingredients is made. Activities within the kitchen, such as washing up and tidying up, are accompanied by catchy song and dance routines. Both cooks act in a way to encourage children to take an interest in cooking. Big Cook does most of the cooking and tells the viewers how to make the recipes; Little Cook does some preparation or sets the timer.

A children’s magazine show talking us through the fact and fiction of mysterious subjects and spooky goings on.

Woolly and Tig is a British series of 5-minute live action comedies about a girl named Tig and her toy spider Woolly. The episodes focus on the feelings that children may have when faced with new experiences. Woolly talks Tig through how she is feeling and possible solutions.

Chronicles the melancholically funny lives of the Clangers, a flutey-voiced family of woolen, knitted aliens living below the surface of a knobbly little planet far out in space. Their misadventures brought them into contact with such unlikely creatures as the Soup Dragon, the Froglets, the Iron Chicken and the Glow Buzzers.

To Me... To You... is a children's game show presented by Paul and Barry Elliott, better known as the Chuckle Brothers. It ran for 3 series including 2 Christmas specials, from 21 June 1996 to 25 December 1998, and was shown on BBC1. The show was set on a desert island. The contestants were children and were in teams of two. The contestants won prizes and coconuts and whoever had the most coconuts at the end of the show won the game. There were tasks such as the Chuckle Challenge and the Chuckle Chuck, where contestants would throw custard pies at Paul and Barry and if they failed to hit both of them three times in a minute, then the contestants would have custard pies put in their faces. Each episode would also have a celebrity guest, someone who was famous for being on TV at the time, such as Richard McCourt, Dave Benson-Phillips, Michaela Strachan and Mr. Blobby.

The adventures of a boy named Wally Trollman and his pet dragon, Norville.

Pablo has joined a new school and it’s strange, wild and definitely complicated. From rules that don’t always make sense to chaotic corridors, Pablo is navigating this strange new world one drama at a time, with a little “help” from his book animal friends and a whole lot of imagination. Through art and creativity, Pablo makes sense of the things that feel impossible to untangle, revealing a world that’s funny, heartfelt, and deeply relatable.

Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do with her is to blast her into space. But, knowing Marmalade, it's not going to be that easy!

Mary, Mungo and Midge features the adventures of a girl called Mary, her dog Mungo, and her pet mouse Midge, who live in a tower block in a busy town.

Comedy drama about a girl with a magical cookbook. It feels to Lulu as if her life cannot get any worse, when a visitor takes her on a magical adventure.

Mackenzie Crook writes, directs and stars in this new family comedy series about a scarecrow who comes to life, based on the characters created by author Barbara Euphan Todd.

The Shiny Show is a pre-school children's quiz show, broadcast by CBeebies. Each show featured a quiz with six questions, based around different subjects, and featured three star characters: Tigs the Tiger, Mukka the Monkey and Dogsby the Dog.

Henry's Amazing Animals is an educational children's nature program produced by Dorling Kindersley and originally broadcast on the Disney Channel in 1996. The show centres around the interactions of Henry the Lizard, a green CGI gecko with purple spots, and an unseen narrator. Each episode centers on a theme relating to the episode's subject matter, such as Henry traveling through prehistory in a time machine in an episode about Prehistoric Animals. Henry is usually faced with some kind of predicament or task related to the episode's theme, which he resolves by the end of the episode, often learning a lesson of some sort in the process.

The Doctor, a time-traveling alien explorer, is sent by his people, the Time Lords, to liberate a small town in England from the tyrannical rule of a race of alien lava creatures called the Shalka.

The Wild House was a serialised children's programme produced between 1997 and 1999 broadcast by the BBC. The idea was created by Jean Buchanan, and later series were written partially by Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It follows the life of Natalie Wild and the other members of the Wild family.

Popular British children's animation series. Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of Festive Road. However, when he tries on a costume in a mysterious shop, he steps out of the changing room into a different time and place, appropriate to his apparel. His adventures include him being a spaceman, a pirate and a cowboy.

Dani is a teenage actress and singer who is regularly left in charge of her younger brother Max, his friend Ben, and their youngest baby sibling, "the baby from hell" who is only shown in a cot. As they go about their lives, they encounter some bizarre situations. Meanwhile, two aliens known as Coordinators observe their actions.

A delightful collection of new stories from the classic characters Andy Pandy, Looby Loo and Teddy.

What's Up Doc? was a Saturday Morning children's variety series produced by Scottish Television and aired on ITV from 1992 to 1995 and hosted by Andy Crane, Yvette Fielding and Pat Sharp. The first two series were produced at Maidstone, before transfer to Glasgow.

The show that tests the friendships of five close mates with a series of terrible tasks and tantalising treats

'Sooty' is the forth incarnation of 'The Sooty Show' and a revamp of the format of 'Sooty Heights', The gang are still running their hotel, but now the human characters have been almost completely phased out and the focus is on the puppets.

The story of bookshop owner, Dog and his best friend, Pug. Whenever they have a problem or a question, they look for the answer in one of their beloved books.

In Skatoony, animation meets live-action as real kids compete with toons in a quiz-style game show. Three young contestants and original animated characters compete in four trivia-based game rounds to win a spectacular prize. Each week Skatoony's cartoon host "Chudd Chudders" and his sidekick "The Earl" attempt to put together another spectacular show, despite all manner of mad happenings and greedy studio-exec Charles La Puck who seems to conspire against them. Skatoony Canada is a distinctly Canadian version of the innovative U.K. series, with all-Canadian creative talent, new characters, and trivia questions based on the Canadian educational curriculum. The high-energy world of Skatoony will capture the minds and imaginations of young people, motivating them to learn.

Maddie Moate discovers how things work.

Adi and his alien pet Woops go out to discover space on board their spaceship. They explore planets, stars, comets and other curiosities of the Universe.

Animated parody of famous superheroes about a young boy called Eric, who found out that when he eats bananas he transforms into the super strong Bananaman!

Nestled in lavender fields is a lovely little farm where sisters Jill and Jacky nurture and love all their animals—including the talking ones. Being a young farmer isn't easy, but every day brings adventure and a chance to grow.

Motorbike rider Grace is in the driving seat as she introduces the pre-school audience to some of the biggest, fastest and most amazing machines in the world.

Doctor Otter is a stop-motion animated series produced by Ealing Animation and Cosgrove Hall. It was shown on CBeebies during 2001. There were 3 seasons in all.

Drama about the lives of a team of bicycle couriers in London.

Life on the high seas is a whirl of fun and adventure when you’re a little boat with big ideas. An eager and energetic tug in his first year of service, Toot works and plays with his ocean-going friends in the busy waters of the Harbour, a thriving coastal port which serves its local community.

Andy works at the National Museum in the Dinosaur Gallery with Hatty. After part of an exhibit is damaged or needs replacing, Andy travels back in time to age of Dinosaurs using the Old Museum Clock to find a replacement piece. He encounters many Dinosaurs and other creatures that lived at the same time.

Egg-shaped "Ludwig" arrives to share his music and fun adventures with the friendly animals in the forest. Simple and beautiful cut-out animation from the late 1970s.

Classic BBC children's animated television series about the adventures of a little boy who lives in a town with his friends Aunt Flo, P.C. Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow, also featuring Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band.

Trumpton is a stop-motion children's television show from the producers of Camberwick Green. First shown on the BBC in the 1960s, It was the second series in the Trumptonshire Trilogy, which comprised Camberwick Green, Trumpton, and Chigley. Trumpton was narrated by Brian Cant, animation was by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Scripts are by Alison Prince; all other production details were identical to Camberwick Green.

Oakie Doke was a children's television programme that was broadcast from September 1995 until December 1996 on the BBC. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall Productions and was shown in stop motion animation. The show ran for two series, each containing 14 episodes.

An animated anthology adapting a unique story from different countries around the world, with each episode featuring a different art style. It was the largest co-production in the history of broadcast television, involving 39 countries.

A spin-off of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

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