Lawyer Arnold König has just moved into a new house in Bonn with his family. On his first day at work, Felix the apparently stray St. Bernard runs into his car. While the stressed-out Arnold vehemently resists keeping the dog, his wife Ellen and children Julia and Tim immediately take him to their hearts. But that soon changes. Chaos soon breaks out in the König household when the curious Felix explores his new home and turns the whole house upside down. From now on, the Königs are no longer safe from surprises. Freshly planted flowerbeds are razed to the ground again. The neighbor's cat is chased off their property in wild chases. The specially built doghouse soon falls victim to the dog's temperament and Felix doesn't even stop at the fridge at home. Despite everything, the Königs can't do without their faithful St. Bernard.
Let's Pretend was a 1980s children's television series aimed at preschool ages. It was shown across the ITV Network at 12.10 on Tuesdays, then later Mondays, replacing the popular Pipkins which had been cancelled at the end of 1981. Like its predecessor, each edition was fifteen minutes long, and the programme was produced using many of Pipkins' personnel such as puppeteer Nigel Plaskitt and producer Michael Jeans.
Each week the presenters would find a number of ordinary household items and contrive to produce a short story featuring them all. The first programme, "The Story Of The Broken Puppet", was shown on Tuesday 5 January 1982 by Central Television. The show aired weekly until 1988.
The show's original opening titles featured items moving along a conveyor belt into the mouth of a large plastic whale, and later a puppet caterpillar moving along the screen.
Jamie Oliver and his family help us get into the festive spirit and prepare for a unique Christmas like no other, from creating edible presents and a gorgeous Christmas dinner to reinventing leftovers.