Children's shows

Battle Of The Planets

He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe

Ring-A-Ding

Thomas

The Tomorrow People

Valley Of The Dinosaurs

Crackerjack was first aired on the BBC Television Service on September 14, 1955, introduced by Eamonn Andrews, and was a variety show featuring comedy sketches, singers and quizzes, broadcast live with an audience.

Andrews hosted the show for nine years and was followed by Leslie Crowther and Michael Aspel during the late 60s/early 70s. Ed Stewart was host between 1975-79, and Stu Francis was in charge between 1980 and 1984.

Regular performers during the 1970s included Peter Glaze, Don Mclean, and Bernie Clifton. In the 1980s you had the likes of The Krankies, Keith Harris and Basil Brush.

Here Come the Double Deckers! is a 17-part British children's television series revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in a scrap yard. A co-production between British independent film company Century Films and 20th Century Fox Television, it is a children's adventure sitcom.

After debuting in the US in 1970, BBC 1 broadcast the first episode on January 1, 1971. The series was repeated in the UK by the BBC until 1977, and then during the early 1990s on a number of ITV companies.

Among the cast were Peter Firth as "Scooper", the leader of the gang, and Brinsley Forde as "Spring". Forde would later be a founder of reggae band Aswad.

Among the guest stars were Melvyn Hayes, Clive Dunn, Jane Seymour, Frank Thornton, and Liz Fraser.

Jackanory was designed to stimulate an interest in reading and was first transmitted on December 13, 1965, with around 3,500 episodes in its 30-year run.

The programme's format, which varied little over the decades, featured an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair.

A spin-off series was Jackanory Playhouse (1972–85), which was a series of thirty-minute dramatisations.

Mr Benn, created by David McKee, originally appeared in several children's books that became the basis for an animated television series of the same name originally transmitted by the BBC. 

The series of 13 episodes debuted on February 21, 1971 and were repeated twice a year for 21 years. Further repeats were aired during the 1990s.

The episodes were narrated by Ray Brooks.

Play Away was a sister programme to the infants' series Play School, aimed at slightly older children.

Presenters during the 13-year run included familiar Play School presenters such as Brian Cant, Derek Griffiths, Floella Benjamin, and Johnny Ball. Other presenters such as Jeremy Irons, Julie Covington, Anita Dobson, and Tony Robinson went on to greater prominence in related fields.

Play School was aimed at preschool children and each programme followed a broad theme and consisted of songs, stories and activities with presenters in the studio, along with a short film introduced through either the square, round or arched window in the set.

It was the first programme shown on BBC2's launch day, April 21, 1964. Changes to the BBC's children's output led to the programme's cancellation in 1988, when it was replaced by Playbus, which soon became Playdays.