Growing Up Creepie
Middlington Middle School is full of ordinary kids with ordinary problems - and Creepie Creecher. Creepie looks a little differently, thinks a little differently and walks a little differently. All of which would still be perfectly normal except for one thing. Creepie was raised by bugs. Yes, bugs. Creepie's family includes her praying mantis mother, mosquito father and brothers of the gnat and pillbug persuasions. It's the kind of thing that makes being a goth pre-teen just that much tough...

Gerry Anderson: Creator of Thunderbirds
Gerry Anderson: Thunderbirds and More!
For any youngster growing up in the UK in the 1960s, Gerry Anderson's TV shows, such as Stingray, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Thunderbirds were a staple of British television, and have now gone on to enjoy cult status among those of a certain age. Although Anderson had created several puppet shows before these (such as Torchy, the Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls), it is his science fiction adventure shows for which he will be best remembered. In the 1970s, his lega...

Watch With Mother Classic BBC Children's Television
Watch With Mother. Classic BBC children's television from the 1950s and 1960s
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin... If you can remember this, then you remember the BBC children's TV series Watch With Mother. These television programmes were produced in a more innocent age of child hood. No wall to wall news with images of violence and destruction. No Facebook and Bebo. No such thing as a Tweenager. No pester power advertising. Quintessentially British. One of the first things I ever remember as a child was the UK TV series Watch With Mother. The programm...

Pee Wee Herman
Pee Wee Herman and Pee Wee's Playhouse
Pee-wee Herman was a man of childlike enthusiasm. He was an adorably nerdy spectacle. Pee Wee Herman was snappy decorator and leading botanist in hot-dog tree technology. But most of all, Pee Wee was friend of many, and let's not forget he was also the owner of the coolest bike ever!

Sooty and Sweep
How Sooty Started
Sooty began life in 1948 when Harry Corbett was holidaying in Blackpool and bought his son (then 3 years of age), a glove puppet of a teddy bear. Harry then used the puppet in his entertainment show, giving it a water pistol and a xylophone. In 1952, Sooty appeared on TV - Harry re-named the bear sooty after covering its ears and nose with soot as part of trying to make the bear unique. Sooty also became a magician, carrying a wand and uttering the phrase: "Izzy Wizzy Lets Get Busy" Harry...

Morph
Morph is an animated and very hyperactive, plasticine character who appeared on UK television starting in 1977. Morph was produced for the BBC by Aardman and was seen in childrens art programmes such as Take Hart and Hartbeat, usually in one minute shorts. As his name suggests, Morph was capable of amazing and amusing feats of metamorphosis. It was through such programmes as Take Hart and Hartbeat, that Tony Hart and Morph struck up a enduring relationship that so fascinated a whole generat...

The Terrahawks
Terrahawks Childrens TV Series
Set in 2020, and created by Gerry Anderson and Christopher Blurr, the Terrahawks was a British science fiction series shown on childrens television. The original series ran from 1983 to 1986 with a total of 39 episodes from two series.. The Terrakawks were led by Dr Ninestein and this task force aimed to protect the earth from attempts at invasion from androids and aliens who were led by a haggard crone character called Zelda. I remember watching this television show with my own sons. They ...