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From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's Television

Nigel Planer narrates the story of the struggle to make programmes for children in the days before everything went digital.

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Dec 202502:15
BBC Four

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Music Played

  • Annette Mills

    We Want Muffin (Muffin The Mule) (1949)

  • The Laurie Johnson Orchestra

    Sucu Sucu

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    Unsquare Dance

  • The Rolling Stones

    Get Off Of My Cloud

  • The Noveltones

    Left Bank

  • Mr. Bloe

    Groovin' With Mr. Bloe

  • Wayne Hill

    Left Bank Two ('Vision On Gallery' Theme Tune)

    Performer: The Noveltones.

  • The Who

    Baba O'Riley

  • The Who

    Baba O'Riley

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now? (Edit)

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Enola Gay

  • The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

  • Alan Hawkshaw

    Chicken Man ('Grange Hill' theme)

  • The Stranglers

    Nice 'N' Sleazy

  • Michael Nyman

    Time Lapse

    Orchestra: The Zoo Orchestra.

  • The John Barry Seven

    Hit and Miss

  • Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit

  • Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit

  • Herbert Chappell

    Paddington Bear

Credits

NarratorNigel Planer
Executive ProducerCaroline Wright
ProducerVerity Maidlow

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