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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.

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59 minutes

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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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