1970s British children's television series

Timeslip

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Simon Randall and Liz Skinner discover the existence of a strange anomaly, known as the “Time Barrier”, that enables them to travel in time to different historical periods in alternate pasts and futur...

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Catweazle

Series Age rating: 2 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Catweazle is a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened...

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Bagpuss

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms. The title character was, "An old, saggy, cl...

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Lizzie Dripping

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Lizzie Dripping was a British television children's programme produced by the BBC in 1973 and 1975. It was written by Helen Cresswell and set in the country village of Little Hemlock, where a young gi...

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Mr. Benn

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Popular British children's animation series. Mr Benn is the ordinary, bowler-hatted office worker who lives in the ordinary suburban street of Festive Road. However, when he tries on a costume in a my...

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The Changes

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In a post-apocalyptic Britain, everyone has rebelled against modern technology (electricity, engines, trains etc) and reverted to a pre-Industrial Revolution way of life. When Nicky Gore tries to inve...

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Clangers

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The Clangers are strange, long-nosed, pink, woolly creatures that live inside a small blue planet, which lies far, far away in space.Under the dustbin-lidded craters that cover the planet's surface is...

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Worzel Gummidge

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role...

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The Tomorrow People

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late adolescence experience a process called 'breaking out' and develop special paranormal abilities. These...

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