The show consists of interactions between humans and puppets. Each episode presents the young viewers with familiar situations from everyday life, and offers creative ways of solving various problems, as each situation is dealt with through songs and games. Aside from the basic plotline, most episodes also include a story told by one or more of the human actors, and sometimes short cartoon sketches. In the sketches about Pete and Pitagoras (different actors) professor Pitagoras tried to teach the kids but his assistant Pete always ruined everything.
The Serious TV series is an observational documentary series made by the BBC and broadcast as part of their children's programming. It encompasses Serious Jungle, Serious Desert, Serious Arctic, Serious Amazon, Serious Andes, Serious Ocean and Serious Explorers. Serious Ocean consisted of ten 30-minute episodes, while each previous series was six 30-minute episodes. In each series a group of eight 12- to 15-year-olds embark on an expedition to an extreme part of the world, in order to help wildlife or assist in environmental projects. The programmes have won numerous awards, among them honours from BAFTA and the Royal Television Society.
So far only Serious Amazon, Serious Ocean and Serious Andes have been aired in Australia, on ABC1 and ABC3. The series has also been shown on Discovery Kids, where five complete seasons have been shown. Slovenian television Kanal A has bought the rights to air Serious Amazon. The show airs Saturdays at 2:10 pm, under the title Vse o Amazonki.
The Italian television network RAI in
Discover and groove along with the Egg Band as they sing and play the most popular nursery songs and rhymes, like "Wheels on the Bus", "Finger Family", "The ABC Song" and many more! Join in with the Egg Band as they sing and play their instruments on upbeat versions of these kindergarten classics.
Don't Look Now is an American national children's sketch comedy show produced for PBS by WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, and created by Geoffrey Darby and Roger Price. It is a clone of their program for CTV and Nickelodeon, You Can't Do That on Television.
5 television programmes on BBC 1
First broadcast on BBC 1 from April 1974
Rebroadcast on BBC 1 on Thursdays from
20 June 1974 at approximately 11.15 p.m
An educational TV show for pre-schools, entertaining one through five years old with a unique blend of live performances, original music and colorful animation. Charming and droll characters entertain the audience with musical numbers and short skits. The Atención Atención band uses pop-rock music to deliver educational content in a cheeky, humorous way. A cast of characters teach the audience about language, math, social skills and arts.