Children's Television Timeline

TIMELINE 1985 2002 Children's Favourites Through the Years CBeebies, BBC CBeebies launched a new brand aimed at a The Broom Cupboard, BBC The all-new Children's BBC was launched, presented by Philip Schofield, Gordon the Gopher and Edd the Duck. 1995 2007 Disney UK The Disney Channel In the Night pre-school audience. Garden, BBc First aired. It is best described as a 1966 UK began. Play School, BBC Play School, featuring Big Ted, was the very first children's programme to be shown in colour. modern televisual interpretation of a nursery rhyme picture book. 2013 1997 1946 1974 Teletubbies, BBC Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po Tee & Bo, CBeebies Starting as a desktop and mobile game, Children's Hour, BBC Bagpuss, BBc Bagpuss broadcast on the BBC. The 13 episodes were so popular they were repeated for 13 years. The first ever children's 2004 TV show was Children's Hour featuring famous puppet, Muffin the Mule. Tee & Bo now have Peppa Pig, Channel 5 Peppa Pig began and has since been shown in 180 countries. become household their own TV series on CBeebies favourites for the under-threes. 1989 1958 Blue Peter, BBC Blue Peter first shown. It is still broadcast Byker Grove, BBC After school club at Byker Grove began, primarily aimed at an older teen and young today, making it the longest running children's TV programme in the world. adult audience. 1971 Sesame Street, ITV ITV aired the American import, Sesame Street. 1998 Pokémon, ITv Japanese animé and cultural phenomenon Pokémon hit Western television screens. 2006 ITV ITV confirmed plans to close its in-house children's programme- making department. 1952 1984 Thomas the Tank Watch with Mother, BBC First BBC television series aimed at children Engine and Friends, ITV The animation aged under five which included well-known based on the books, The Railway Series first began. The books, first published in 1945, were written by Rev. W. Awdry and his son, 1993 Nickelodeon UK channel Nickelodeon launched their UK channel. 2006 2014 characters Andy Pandy, Flower Pot Men and The Woodentops. 1972 John Craven's CITV, ITV launched CITV, a channel dedicated The Furchester, BBC CBeebies and Newsround, BBC The children's news programme began. Newsround explained background and context for viewers Sesame Workshop are coming together to make a brand new to children's Christopher Awdry. programming. show starring Elmo and Cookie Monster. 1955 The Sooty Show, BBC After originally appearing on television in 1952 during BBC's Talent Night, Sooty was given his own show three years later in 1955. aged 6-12 to understand. 1986 1998 Grange Hill, BBC Twelve years after Grange Hill began it launched nationwide Bob the Builder, BBC Premiered on CBBC. It is now shown acrosS the world and is available 2009 Horrible Histories, BBC Based on the books by Terry Deary and Martin Brown, mixing comedy and history to make learhing fun. anti-drugs campaign Just Say No' which ran alongside the storyline focused around Zammo McGuire's in many languages including Spanish, Hebrew and Hindi. drug addiction. 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 A tvlicensing.co.uk/telescope2014 @tvlicensingnews You iba youtube.com/tvlicensing fr flickr.com/photos/tvlicensing U TV LICENSING Tube www.tvlicensing.co.uk