Something Special is a children's television programme produced and broadcast by the BBC. The producer is Allan Johnston who worked as a teacher of children with special needs before joining the BBC in 1989. It is designed to introduce children to Makaton signing, and is specifically aimed at children with delayed learning and communication difficulties. It is aired on the CBeebies channel and in the past was also broadcast as part of the CBeebies programme strand on BBC One and BBC Two).
The name of the programme derives from the idea that all children, irrespective of their position on the learning spectrum, are special.
It is presented by Justin Fletcher and features various other characters and clips of disabled children. Justin speaks as well as signing, and a spoken narrative is provided over the clips of children.
The characters played by Justin are the Tumble Family: Mr Tumble, an adult clown who himself displays delayed learning and communication difficulties, Grandad Tumble and Baby Tumble. Other membe
Happy Monster Band is an interstitial program that airs on Playhouse Disney, and is produced by Kickstart Productions. The series was created by Don Carter. The show is about a group of monsters that performs songs about friendship, love, exercising, chores, and other preschool related themes. Season 2 follows the Happy Monsters on their tour around the world. On March 23, 2012, when Disney Junior started its own channel, the show returned to airing with only reruns.
In each visit Bella, and her mechanical friend, 'LIFT', take little ones on a journey to three surprise floors, each one revealing creative play ideas, such as arts and crafts, dancing and stories all connected by a simple theme woven throughout each episode.
The Family-Ness is a British cartoon series produced in 1983. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 5 October 1984 to 5 April 1985, and it was created by Peter Maddocks of Maddocks Cartoon Productions. Maddocks later went on to produce Penny Crayon and Jimbo and the Jet Set in a similar style. Family-Ness was about the adventures of a family of Loch Ness Monsters and the MacTout family, particularly siblings Elspeth and Angus. The 'Nessies' could be called from the loch by the two children by means of their "thistle whistles". The series was followed with a large collection of merchandising including annuals, story books, character models and even a record. The single "You'll Never Find a Nessie in the Zoo" was written by Roger and Gavin Greenaway, but never made it into the Top 40.
Six years after the defeat inflicted on Qilby by Yugo and his team, tears flow again in Amalia's kingdom. To prevent this, the heroes must find the six missing Dofus.
Meet Mike, a pug who’s in love with the neighbour’s dog. Sadly, his plans to win Iris’ heart never seem to work out as trouble-making furry intruders always manage to interfere.
In the pre-war years in Sukhumi, Chik lived in the family of his aunt - a playful, but smart and kind boy. His days are filled with chores, studies, walks with friends, and, sometimes, skirmishes with the guys in the neighboring yard. From the attentive gaze of the boy, adult problems do not hide. Sensitive Chick suffers involuntarily when he sees injustice and cruelty.
Mummy Nanny is a French-German television series. It follows the story of Nile, an Egyptian mummy who is awoken from her sleep after thousands of years and is hired as a nanny for Capucine and Alex's family.
Watt on Earth is a children's television programme that ran for two 12-episode series, shown as part of Children's BBC. Watt is an alien prince who comes to Earth to escape his evil uncle, who wants to kill him. He befriends a boy named Sean, who helps him hide from the assassin sent by his uncle.
Manu was a French animated TV series, based on comic books by cartoonist Frank Margerin. It premiered in 1991 and was about a teenager 'Manu' and situations in his own life, with the rest of his family and his friend Robert. It used to air in the UK on the now defunct Children's Channel.
It was produced by the French animation studio "Jingle", and the French and defunct network La Cinq.
The GeoFreakZ are a comedic team of teenagers who are working their way through training at the GeoFreakZ Academy where they embark on geocaching adventures in order to save the planet. They travel the Virtual Universe in search of hidden geocaches, adventure and laughs — while trying to keep one step ahead of Fabio and his gang of troublemakers.