Creating Teletubbies
The story of the inspiration behind one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time
Witness History · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
It’s 1994 and the BBC is looking for a brand-new children’s TV series.
TV producer Anne Wood decides she’s going to make a show aimed at an audience that’s never had programmes made for it before – two and three-year-olds.
She tells Melanie Stewart-Smith the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.
(Photo: Teletubbies. Credit: Ragdoll Productions for the BBC/Wildbrain)