Let’s go round again! dougal and pals at 60

With its loveable but strange characters, pointless stories and witty in-jokes for adults, The Magic Roundabout became an instant classic when it burst onto our screens 65 years ago this month

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THE GERRY ANDERSON STORY

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

At 1.30pm on Thursday 25 February 1971, the character of Mr Benn walked cheerfully into many children’s lives. The first episode of the animated series saw Benn, an ordinary resident of 52 Festive Roa

If you watched any children’s TV during the school holidays between 1985 and 1992, you would have quickly become familiar with the career of Timmy Mallett, the host of TV-am’s Wacaday. Essentially a w