Polka Dot Door was a long-running Canadian children's television series produced by the Ontario Education Communications Authority from 1971–1993. PDD was created and developed by a team of employees from TVOntario hired and led by original series producer-director, Peggy Liptrott.
Significant contributors to the creation and development of the series in 1971 included Executive Producer Dr. Vera Good who laid the conceptual foundation of the show, Educational Supervisor, Marnie Patrick Roberts, Educational Consultant L. Ted Coneybeare, Script Writers/Composers, Pat Patterson and Dodi Robb, Animator Dick Derhodge and Dr. Ada Scherman, a professor at the prestigious Institute of Child Study in Toronto who was consulted in the early stages of PDD's development and is responsible for giving the show its name.
The events of the series deal with forcing the girl Majdala to marry seven, and how she lived with him throughout her life in oppression and domination, so she decided to escape from him, in order to secure her life and the lives of her young children, and to save their daughter from forcing her father to marry at a young age, and all the challenges and difficulties she is going through, from In order to help her children and secure their most basic rights.
Bobinogs is a children's television programme shown most recently on the BBC channel CBeebies in the UK. It debuted for a Welsh audience, but in 2003 started being broadcast in the English market. It originally featured a child and three characters who lived in his hat: inanimate when he was present, but active when he was out. This aspect of the series was later dropped dropped; the characters are now active from the beginning of the programme.
The three main characters play in a band. A typical episode involves them trying to solve some sort of problem, then performing a song about it at the end. At one point in the episode they will obtain a clue to the problem's solution by looking through their "bobinoculars", which show video footage from the real world.
Bobinogs has been sold to television stations throughout the world since its launch in 2003.
Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952. Mills and the puppet continued with programmes that were broadcast until 1955, when Mills died. The series then transferred to ITV in 1956 and 1957. A modern animated version of Muffin appeared on the BBC in 2005.
The original mule puppet was created in 1933 by Punch and Judy puppet maker Fred Tickner for husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth to form part of a puppet circus for the Hogarth Puppet Theatre. The act was soon put away, and the puppet was not taken out again until 1946, when Bussell and Hogarth were working with presenter Annette Mills. Shes named the puppet mule "Muffin", and it first appeared on television in an edition of For The Children broadcast on 20 October 1946.
Take a trip back in time to see what Christmas and the holiday season were like in America not too long ago as we reveal how many of today’s popular holiday celebrations and traditions had their start in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. With experts and cultural icons offering their own insight and personal memories, we reveal how your favorite holiday films, fads, television specials, songs and toys are still part of your holiday celebrations today.
Israel's ancient tradition is brought to life through the art of clay animation. Using one of the most popular media for 3-D animation effects, this DVD series tells authentic legends that have become wildly popular on Israel's Channel One.
From buffalo to butterflies, this draw-along show goes step-by-step through drawing all the coolest creatures. Follow along with Justin as he draws amazing animals!
It is about a family that moves from the city to the countryside for some reason, and their change in lifestyle will be the main theme of the story. The father of the family has his money stolen by his partner and is about to go to prison. He asks his daughter to go to the north and the countryside with her siblings and their aunt after many years to be safe before his house is confiscated.
After his feelings of being taken for granted by his family are compounded by a crushing heartbreak, middle child Rex (Zaijian Jaranilla) decides to make a rash decision out of hopelessness. Now, his friends and loved ones are forced to look deep into themselves in a fumbling effort to prevent duplicating their mistakes.