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Mr. Trimble [21/02/73]

Mr. Trimble [21/02/73] (Mr. Trimble)

21 Feb 1973
18m

A typically packed episode of this long-running children's series featuring puppets, animation, and Norman Beaton as a doctor.

This long-running Yorkshire Television series offered a range of attractions for its 1970s pre-school audience. In this example, Mr Trimble is feeling 'a little hoarse' while dressed in stripey pyjamas. Glug the puppet goldfish delightfully leads from her misunderstanding of these two facts into a feature on zebras, viewed through a magic telescope as a bridge to the library nature footage. Alongside songs and an illustrated story, Norman Beaton make an all-too-fleeting appearance as a doctor.

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Kid's TV

Our relationship with the small screen starts early in life, opening our square eyes to a heady mix of drama and comedy; fantasy and fact.

Dedicated children’s programming has been part of the television mix from its earliest years, growing from short intervals “For The Children” after WWII, to a plethora of standalone channels today. The start of the BBC’s long-running “Watch With Mother” series in 1953 set much of the template for pre-school television, blending puppets, song and animation, with the implicit expectation that mum - assumed to be a housewife - would supervise. Catering for older children, meanwhile, sought to balance the kinds of programmes children want to watch with those their parents want them to see. Eventually a fuller menu of drama, comedy, factual and magazine programmes for children - in other words, versions of 'grown-up' programmes for 'small people' - came to fill the schedules of weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Sadly, the segregation of children’s television to its own satellite, cable and digital channels has made its much less likely for adults to experience the frequent delights of kids’ TV. But our collection welcomes all ages! (Though please note that some programmes maybe flagged as unsuitable for young children.)

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