Michael Bentine's Potty Time was a long-running British children's show, starring Michael Bentine, and directed and produced by Leon Thau for Thames Television on ITV. It ran from 1973 to 1980. The episodes consisted largely of distinctive, bearded puppets, comically re-enacting famous historical situations. The Potties' faces were always obscured by facial hair, with only their noses protruding. They were operated from beneath and had two distinct sizes - approximately two feet and one foot tall. All of the Potty characters were designed by Bentine, who also provided all of their voices. Their operators were from The Barry Smith Theatre of Puppets.
In 2001, it was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows poll. Several Region 2 DVDs of the series have been released by Network DVD.
Dono, Kasino, and Indro are officers of CHIIPS, a social department whose main job are to protect a city that seems to be perpetually threatened by the bad intentions of either a crazy scientist, a gang of thugs, a hypnotic madman, a sophisticated burglar, or a vengeful robot. As the wacky trio set out daily to patrol the streets, their gross incompetence often proves to be a bigger threat to the city than anything else.
Astro Farm is an English children's television series animated in stop motion. It featured the adventures of the Foxwoods, a small family who work on an asteroid, which is covered in farmland. Astro Farm was produced by FilmFair for Central Independent Television, and was first broadcast on CITV in 1992; Nick Jr. later repeated it.
The main action takes place on an asteroid dedicated to farming. The Foxwoods live in a small cottage with a barn nearby. Daisy, the cow lives in a separate farm. The atmosphere is artificial and is controlled by the weather machine in the cottage. The Gorps live on a nearby asteroid known as 'Gorpdale' which is dark and wet.
The principal characters are Lizzie; Lizzie's husband Sam; their son, Tom; Dinko, a dog; Daisy, the big moo and Clucks the blue chicken; featuring Gorps, Splodger and Biff, three miscreants who steal food and cause trouble at the farm.
An expert in animal health and passionate about animals, the sparkling Joanie Lamoureux takes us on the road to discover and catalog all the animals that live in Quebec, in nature or in captivity. In her safari jeep, the host bringus with her to discover particular species. From Atlantic salmon to American porcupines, white-tailed deer and owls, wild and zoo residents alike, Joanie is interested in all the animals, and she knows how to make them fascinating!
Paco, a distracted young man, wakes up one morning listening to applause, lamentations and laughter in the style of sitcoms. Trying to figure out what is happening, he focuses on his academic and romantic problems and his coexistence with friends.
Pappyland was a live action children's television show originally written by Jon Nappa. More than 65 episodes were written by award-winning children's writer, Benette Whitmore. It was originally broadcast on TLC from September 30, 1996 to December 1999. Then, after cancellation, aired reruns until February 21, 2003. The show starred acclaimed cartoonist-artist Michael Cariglio as Pappy Drewitt, an artist/49er type character who lived in a magical cabin in a bizarre land with many different creatures and people. More than half of the show was shot on bluescreen. During each half-hour segment, Pappy and other characters danced, sang, taught life lessons and other children's television fare but the main focus of the show was watching Pappy draw pictures. Viewers who sent in their artwork, had their drawing shown during the "Hall of Frames" segment near the end and the closing credits.
The series follows the life of Aifric whose wacky family have just moved to a new town in the West of Ireland. The 14yr old wants nothing more than to fit in but feels her family will not make it easy for her. Her mother is a new-age hippy who has banned television, while her father is a wannabe rock star, not to mention her annoying little brother.
Based on the story of Valentina Oseeva "Dinka". This is the story of the friendship of the daughter of a revolutionary and a boy worker in Tsarist Russia. The events take place in 1910.
Alex, Lola and Joaquin blast off into space (or a great adventure! From their secret bunker, they discover the science of the cosmos through earthbound experiments. With help from astronaut David Saint-Jacques, they explore a particular theme by travelling to places all across the country to carry out experiments... like they're in space!
Name Your Adventure is an American reality series that aired on Saturday mornings during NBC's TNBC line-up. Hosted by Mario Lopez, Jordan Brady, and Tatyana Ali, the series ran from September 1992 to September 1995.
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant is an American documentary television series on Discovery Fit & Health and TLC. The series debuted on May 26, 2009 on Discovery Fit & Health. Each episode features two or more women who were unaware that they were pregnant until they went into labor.
Generally, the subjects' reasons for not recognizing pregnancy include:
⁕Mistaking the symptoms for some other condition
⁕Believing they were infertile, and thus not considering pregnancy a possible cause of symptoms
⁕Not having any of the "traditional" symptoms
⁕Being on birth control and having 100% belief in it
⁕Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy being misinterpreted as a period
⁕False negative pregnancy tests