UK / Thames / 68x30m-e / 1973-79

Creator: Roger Price / Music: Dudley Simpson / Script Editor: Ruth Boswell / Producers: Ruth Boswell, Roger Price / Scientific Advisor: Dr Christopher Evans

Scifi drama series. A group of advanced telepathic kids use their secret base 'The Lab' and its amazing computer TIM to combat evil, whether it be power mad villains or aliens.

With:- NICHOLAS YOUNG as John / ELIZABETH ADARE as Elizabeth / MIKE HOLLOWAY as Mike Bell / PETER VAUGHAN-CLARKE as Stephen / SAMMIE WINMILL as Carol  / DEAN LAWRENCE as Tyso / STEVE SALMON as Kenny

UK / Thames/Tetra/ Nickelodeon / 22x25m-e / 1992-95 Three seasons

Creator: Roger Price / Executive Producer: Alan Horrox / Producer: Roger Damon Price 

Scifi drama series. A revival of the seventies 'classic' (see above). Three new teenagers, an Australian, an American and a Brit 'break out' and get involved in stopping various bizarre megalomaniacs.

With:- KRISTIAN SCHMID as Adam  / CHRISTIAN TESSIER as Megabyte  / KRISTEN ARIZA as Lisa / ADAM PEARCE as Kevin  / NAOMI HARRIS as Ami 

ABC-Jay Ward / 17x6m-e / 1967-68

Executive Producer: Jay Ward

Animated misadventures of racing driver Tom Slick who, with his girlfriend Marigold, tangled with various bad guy racers like Baron Otto Matic. This was a show within a show appearing as part of George of the Jungle.

Voices:- BILL SCOTT as Tom Slick and Gertie / JUNE FORAY as Marigold  

UK fantasy period drama serial about a young boy who discovers a magical garden when a grandfather clock strikes thirteen. Based on the novel by Phillippa Pearce it has been dramatised three times by the BBC, 1968, 1974 and 1989. The 1989 (4 January - 8 February) version starred Jeremy Rapling as Tom and Caroline Waldron as Hatty.

UK / BBC1 / x20m-e / 1966-67

Entertainment show presented by Jeremy Carrad and John Earle. One interesting aspect of the show was highlights of Grand Prix races but with the twist that they were performed using scalextric tracks.

USA / Hanna Barbera-Screen Gems / 30x20m-e / 1961-62

Creator: Joseph Barbera / Executive Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera / Producers: Benny Wolf, Jeff Hall

Animated sitcom. Exploits of a group of New York alley cats especially their luxury customised dustbin dwelling leader TC. The gang of cats were always getting into scrapes and falling foul of their nemesis Officer Dibble. The show is a clever reworking of the Sgt Bilko set up. In the UK it was re-titled as BOSS CAT because there was a pet food brand called Top Cat.

Voices:- ARNOLD STANG as Top Cat / MAURICE GOSFIELD as Benny the Ball / MARVIN KAPLIN as Choo Choo / LEO DELYON as Spook/The Brain / JOHN STEPHENSON as Fancy Fancy Pierre / ALLEN JENKINS as Officer Dibble / JEAN VANDER PYL as Goldie

UK / BBC / 1960's and 1970's

General knowledge tournament for grammer school kids.

UK / HTV / x25m-e / 1998-continuing

Producer: Melanie Erikson / Executive Producer: Dan Maddicott

Entertainment. Kids vote on their favourite things, music, TV, food etc producing lists of Top Tens. Presenters of the show are Ben Jones and Vanessa Bewley.  

UK / BBC1/Childrens Film and TV Prod. / 6x30m-e / 1992  24 April - 29 May

Writer: William Corlett / Novel: Jill Paton Walsh / Producer/Director: Robin Crichton 

Scifi drama serial. In the future when the world has reverted to a more rural way of life, five children help a dying man by embarking on a quest to discover the torch of the Olympic Games.

With:- JUDI DENCH as Aba / MICHAEL WILLIAMS as Sage  / ALTAY LAWRENCE as Nikathlon / GRAHAM McGRATH as Peri  / FINTY WILLIAMS as Cal  / LYNDON DAVIES as Dio / KATE McGRATH as Cassie / TAYLOR SCIPIO as Ekow / JOHN CARNEY as Guardian / JUAN JOSE PARRILLA as Tinker / BORIVOJ NAVRATIL as Tandor 

UK / Associated Rediffusion-Arthur Povis / 52x15m-e / 1960-61 black and white

Creator/Music: Roberta Leigh / Producer: Gerry Anderson / Director: Vivian Milroy

Puppet adventure series. The adventures of a wind up clockwork boy with a battery powered lamp on his helmet. Torchy lived in Topsy Turvy land.

Voices:- OLWYN GRIFFITHS / KENNETH CONNOR / JILL RAYMOND / PATRICIA SOMERSET

UK / Thames / 13x30m-e / 1971-72  20 October 71 - 12 January 72  Wednesdays 5.20pm

Producer/Directors: Adrian Cooper,Vic Hughes 

Sitcom.  Two teenagers team up with the 43rd Duke of Tottering to save his stately home Tottering Towers from the hands of his creditors.

With:- WILLIAM MERVYN as The Duke  / STACEY GREGG as Daffy / TOM OWEN as Dick / AVICE LANDON as Mrs Pouncer / DAVID STOLL as Gabbige / LEON LISSEK as Geko  / PATSY ROWLANDS as Miss Twitty / JOHN LOUIS MANSI as 'Fingers' Fish  / VIC WISE as Benny the Nose / DAVID LODGE as PC Poppy / BERNARD SPEAR as Sammy the Fog / KEITH MARSH as Boysie / ROBERT GILLESPIE as Joe the Creep / TALFRYN THOMAS as Prayer-book Perce / SAM KYDD as Bertie Bogmoss 

TOUCH THE SUN

Australia / ABC-Australian Children's Television Foundation-Revcom / 6x95m-e / 1988

Executive Producer: Patricia Edgar

An anthology series of 6 feature length children's dramas made to mark Australia's bicentennial year. The stories were:- 1. Top Enders / 2. Princess Kate / 3. Peter and Pompey / 4. The Gift / 5. Devil's Hill / 6. Captain Johnno. 

BBC1 / 1x70m / 22 February 2004 / 5:35pm
Writer: Mary Morris / Director: Joss Agnew / Producer: Jane Steventon

An extended story from THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER about the residents of a children's home. Tracy's mother turns up unexpectedly to reclaim her.

With:- DANI HARMER as Tracy / RUTH GEMMELL as Carly (Tracy's mother) / LISA COLEMAN as Cam / NISHA NAYAR as Elaine / NICOLA REYNOLDS as Shelley / CLIVE ROWE as Duke / SARA CARVER as Gloria

UK / BBC1 / 12x30m-e / 1999-2000  Season One: 6 April - 11 May 1999 / Season Two: 4 April - 9 May 2000  Tuesdays 5.10pm

Executive Producer: Roy Milani / Producer/Director: Cassie Braban

A documentary series in which kids changed places with each other. Season One had the sub title French Exchange and in it a group of twelve to sixteen year olds spent a week as exchange students living with French families and then having the French kids living with them. Season two was three two parters with in 1-2: Fame school kids swapping with army cadets / 3-4: Public School kids and comprehensive goers / 5-6: Footballers and ballroom dancers. Narrated by Katy Hill.

USA / Sunbow / x20m-e / 1985

Animated scifi. Tie in to the massive merchandising 'opportunity' about the shape changing robots. 

UK / BBC1 / 5x30m-e / 1978 4 Jan - 1 Feb

Writer: Diane DeVere Cole / Novel: Alison Uttley / Executive Producer: Anna Home / Design: Walter Miller / Director: Dorothea Brooking 

Spooky drama serial. A young girl staying with her aunt and uncle in an Elizabethan era home finds herself being able to travel back in time to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots where she helps a troubled family. Filmed at Simon (Blue Peter) Groom's farm house Babington House. Blue Peter at the time featured a brief making of the show segment.

With:- SOPHIE THOMPSON as Penelope  / GERALD JAMES as Uncle Barnabus  /  ELIZABETH BRADLEY as Aunt Tissie / MARY MAUDE as Mistress Bassington / SARAH BENFIELD as Tabitha / LOUIS HAMMOND as Jude 

UK / TVS / 6x25m-e / 1985

Writer: Alan England / Novel: Vivien Alcock / Executive Producer: Anna Home / Director: Tony Virgo 

Drama serial. A pair of runaway kids team up with an escaped circus elephant.

With:- LISA COLEMAN as Bell  / JAKE COPPARD as Charlie / JULIAN GARTSIDE as Andrew  Parsons  / BREFFNI McKENNA as Jerry / COLIN JEAVONS as Jack Walker  / J.G. DEVLIN as Danny Murphy / PAULINE DEVANEY as Mrs O'Hare 

UK / BBC / 9x25m-e / 1968

Writer: David Turner / Novel: R.L. Stevenson / Producer: Campbell Logan / Director: Peter Hammond

Period action adventure serial. Young cabin boy Jim Hawkins has adventures after teaming up with the rascally pirate Long John Silver.

With:- PETER VAUGHAN as Long John Silver / MICHAL NEWPORT as Jim Hawkins  

UK / Anglia / 6x10m-e / 1972

Writer/Producer: Paul Honeyman / Director: John Salway 

UK / BBC / 6x30m-e /  1961 

Writer/Producer: Dorothea Brooking / Novel: E. Nesbit 

Period drama serial. In Victorian times five children help save their inventor father from ruin. Also serialised in 6x30m-e in 1982 as The Story of the Treasure Seekers and produced by Paul Stone.

UK / Carlton/Tetra / 1x120m-e / 1996

Writer: Olivia Hetreed / Novel: E. Nesbit / Music: Tony Flynn / Costume: Pam Downe / Producer: Alan Horrox / Director: Juliet May

Period drama. Five Victorian children help to save their inventor father (he has come up with an ingenious refrigeration

With:- NICHOLAS FARRELL as Bastable / JAMES WILBY as Carlisle  /  GINA McKEE as Mary Leslie /  IAN RICHARDSON as Haig / PETER CAPALDI as Jellicoe  / NIGEL DAVENPORT as Blackstock / JOHN SESSIONS as Mr Redman / DONALD SINDEN as Old Wincott / CAMILLA POWER as Dora Bastable  

New Zealand/UK / Cloud 9/C5 /  x30m-e/60m-e / 1998-

Creators: Raymond Thompson,Harry Duffin / Music: Simon May

Scifi drama series. On a desolated Earth sometime in the future children have grouped into tribes and taken over. 

With:- DWAYNE CAMERON as Bray / BETH ALLEN as Amber  / CALEB ROSS as Lex  / AMY MORRISON as Zandra /  RYAN RUNCIMAN as Ryan / VICTORIA SPENCE as Salene / ARI BOYLAND as KC / SARAH MAJOR as Patsy

UK / BBC1 / 27x25m-e / 1989-91

Producers: Richard Simkin (Season 1), Judy Whitfield (Season 2), Martin Hughes (Season 3), 

Sitcom. Seasons one and two took the form of shenanigans in a magic shop, season three continued the magic theme but was set in an old theatre.

With:- MARCUS CLARKE as Crabtree (Seasons 1-2) / UNA STUBBS as Mrs Breeze (Season 1) / JOHN QUAYLE as Mr Breeze (Season 1) / SALLY ANNE MARSH as Lucy (Season 1) / JOLYON STEPHENSON as Joe (Season 1) / JOHN SURMAN as Mr Sadd (Season 2) / PAUL ZENON as Mickie (Seasons 2-3) / PATSY PALMER as Zoe (Season 2) / SONIA MAY as Jeannie (Season 2) / ANTHONY DAVIS as Daniel (Season 2) / BERNIE CLIFTON as Bernie (Season 3) / LESLIE SCHOFIELD as Derek Yates (Season 3) / REBECCA FRONT as Debbie (Season 3) / TERRY RANDALL as Eddie Farrow (Season 3) 

UK / Thames-Cosgrove Hall / 13x11m-e / 1992 10 January - 3 April

Writer: Brian Trueman / Novels: Terry Pratchett / Music: Colin Towns / Executive Producer: John Hambley / Producer: Jackie Cockle / Director: Jackie Cockle

Animated fantasy comedy. When an old department store is to close down, the hundreds of tiny,  inch high people who live there are forced to try and find a new home.

Voices:- JOE McGANN AS Masklin / DEBRA GILLETTE as Grimma / ROSALIE WILLIAMS as Granny Morkie / JOHN JARDINE as Torrit / EDWARD KELSEY as The Thing / BRIAN TRUEMAN / JIMMY HIBBERT

Canada / Cellar Door-Catalyst Ent. / 1x25m-e / 1998

Writer: David Weale / Music: Jon Stroll / Producer/Executive Producers: Kevin Gillis, Gretna Rose

Animated fantasy. A young mouse has a Christmas adventure.

Voices:- BILL McFADDEN as Narrator / JESSICA PELLERIN as Eckhart / SARAH BRAND as Mavis / MARLANE O'BRIEN as Mother Mouse / JACK McANDREW as Tomis / DAVID MOSES as Ned / DON WRIGHT as Shorty / DON FRANCKS as Boss Mouse  

UK / BBC1 / 6x25m-e / 1997

Writer: Richard Carpenter / Novel: Sir Arthur Quiller Couch 

Period drama serial. In the 19th century, a young girl run away from the circus and teams up with a young boy and helps him try and gain his rightful inheritance.

With:- MORGAN BELL as Tilda  / ERIC GRAVES as Arthur / JOHN SHRAPNEL as Rev Glasson  /  ISLA BLAIR as Mrs Mortimer / DESMOND BARRIT as Mr Mortimer  /  JOE DUTTINE as Sam Blossom / CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK as Gavel / AMANDA ELWES as Sally Breward 

UK / BBC-Gordon Murray / 13x15m-e / 1967  3 January - 28 March

Music: Freddie Phillips / Animation: Bob Bura, John Hardwick / Writers: Alison Prince, Gordon Murray

Stop frame animated series. A sequel to Camberwick Green and set in the nearby village of Trumpton, each episode of this featured the fire service ( Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub). Narrated by Brian Cant the show was originally part of Watch With Mother and see also the third part of the 'trilogy' Chigley.   

UK / BBC2 / x25m-e / 1983-85

Creator: Phil Redmond / Producers: David Hargreaves, Darrol Blake

Drama series. A spin off from Grange Hill taking the popular character of Tucker Jenkins and following him as he left school and tried to make his way in the world.

With:- TODD CARTY as Tucker / GEORGE ARMSTRONG as Alan  / PAUL McCARTHY as Tommy / TERRY SUE PATT as Benny Green 

UK / ITV Network-Britt Allcroft / 13x15 minute episodes / 1988

Creators: Robert D. Cardona David Mitton 

Children's animation that was created by the Thomas and Friends team and filmed in the same studios. The show was about two  tug fleets, the Star Fleet and the Z Stacks, who compete against each other in the Bigg City Port during the 1920s. The Star Fleet are honourable and hard-working, the Z-Stacks are underhanded and devious.

Voices by Patrick Allen, Simon Nash, Shaun Prendergast, Sean Barrett, Chris Tulloch, Timothy Bateson and John Baddeley

USA / ABC-Ruby Spears / 12x30m-e / 1984-85

Animated fantasy drama. A freak laboratory accident gives Brett Matthews the ability to transform himself into a car, a 'skill' he uses to help people in need.

Voices:- MICHAEL MISH as Brett Matthews / PAMELA HAYDEN as Pattie / FRANK WELKER as Flip and Rusty / PAT FRALEY as Eddie

Canada / x30m-e / 1987-93

Creators: Roger Price, Geraldine Laybourne

Fast paced sketch series featuring several members of the You Can't Do That on Television cast.

UK / BBC-Tell Tale Productions / 260x20m-e / 1999-continuing

Creators: Tell Tale / Titles: Liquid Animation / Producer: Iain Lauchlan / Executive Producers: Clare Elshow, Judy Whitfield

Adventures of four costumed characters, Jake, Fizz, Milo and Bella, their dog Doodles and their two adult helpers Judy and Max, the gang lived in a nursery like world. Iain Lauchlan (former presenter of Fingermouse) was one of the driving forces behind the show.

Voices:- COLLEEN DALEY / JUSTIN FLETCHER / BOB GOULDING / SINEAD RUSHE / SALLY PREISIS 

ITV1 / ?x25m / 2001, 2002

The story of seven teenagers who share a house in the grounds of their co-educational boarding school, The Oaks.

With:- SADIE PICKERING as Bethan / FIONA WADE as Anya / HAYLEY NEWTON as Tallulah / JORDAN FRIEDA as Miles / ROYCE CRONIN as Chris / AUGUSTUS PREW as Drew / JACK LLOYD-DAVIES as Staggsy / LIAM O’CARROLL as Eddie

UK / ITV Network / 13x25m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Thursday 22 March / 4.10pm)

Strange game show hosted by Nigel Mitchell with two teams competing in a series of challenges and games.

UK / BBC / x15m-e / 1990

Producer: Jane Tarleton 

Nature series presented by Jenny Powell and with songs by Derek Griffiths.  

UK / Thames / 6x30m-e / 1970  10 July - 4 August Fridays 5.20pm

Writer: Jan Butlin / Producer/Director: Daphne Shadwell 

Sitcom. Following the death of her father, Dotty Charles, her friend Dingle Bell and her dog Fido travel around searching for work.

With:-  DENISE COFFEY as Dotty Charles / DAVID JASON as Dingle Bell  

UK / BBC1 / 4x25m-e / 1999 26 November - 17 December Fridays 4.35pm

Creator: Kjartan Poskitt / Theme Music: Ben Lee-Delisle / Executive Producer: Chris Bellinger / Producer: Christopher Tandy

Game show. A massive knockout show starting with 2000 kids taking parts in various rounds to be whittled down to the two of the title. Their prize a chance to appear on Children's BBC at the turn of the Millennium. Hosted by athlete Denise Lewis, Steve Wilson and Rachael Hopper.

USA / Warner-Griffard-Adler-Dualstar-Miller Boyett / x25m-e / 1999-

Creators: Robert Griffard, Howard Adler / Producer: Gil Junger

Sitcom. Exploits of a pair of teenage twins Mary Kate and Ashley Burke living in Chicago with their father and Nanny. The Olsen twins are a huge industry in themselves, multi millionaires already and still in their teens they have a range of books, movies and stacks of merchandise already.

With:- MARY-KATE OLSEN as Mary-Kate Burke / ASHLEY OLSEN as Ashley Burke / CHRIS SLEBER as Kevin Burke / SALLY WHEELER as Carrie