Bod

British children's TV series based on four books by by Joanne and Michael Cole and Dennis Spooner and produced by the BBC. Before the animated series was commissioned, the four books had been read on another BBC children's programme: Play School. In 1974, thirteen 35-minute episodes were created for transmission on the BBC as part of the Watch with Mother series, originally airing on BBC 1 in 1975. It is a cut-out animated cartoon series narrated by John Le Mesurier and Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths and produced by David Yates.

The character of Bod is a boy who lives in a town with Aunt Flo, PC Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow. Each of the characters has their own theme music performed by Griffiths which is heard when they appear. Regular features are animal identification and Bod Snap.

There is also another segment which appears in each episode called Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band with artwork by Joanne Cole. This section, narrated by Maggie Henderson, features short extracts from famous pieces of classical music as part of the story, and usually ends with Alberto choosing a different flavour of milkshake as his reward for solving a problem. These segments were produced separately by the BBC and were originally shown alongside the Bod episodes; only five of these thirteen segments are known to survive, following a decision in the early 1990s to wipe a large amount of videotaped 1970s children's programmes.