Your childhood on rewind — before screens rotted your brain, they actually tried.
Direction
Verity Maidlow treats puppet shows with genuine reverence.
Production
Archival footage lovingly restored from magnetic oblivion.
Acting
Nigel Planer's narration: warm, wry, perfectly pitched.
Director
Verity Maidlow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's alphabetical A-to-Z structure was inspired by a 1950s BBC internal memo organizing all children's properties.
Many clips were rescued from 'wiped' tapes — the BBC destroyed countless broadcasts until the 1970s, making this documentary accidental archaeology.
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