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While Johnny Ball tried to make difficult subject matter
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Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

While Johnny Ball tried to makedifficult subject matter accessible through entertainment,...

While Johnny Ball tried to make
difficult subject matter accessible through entertainment, some kids' TV drama producers were trying to do much the same
thing in reflecting an ever-changing
society

Full Transcript

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While Johnny Ball tried to make difficult subject matter
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accessible through entertainment,
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some kids' TV drama producers
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were trying to do much the same thing
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in reflecting an ever-changing society.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:36:15
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Genres
documentary, family
Production
Mighty Productions,BBC

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Movie Summary

Konnie Huq explores and celebrates the very best of British children's programming from the past 100 years.
There were still period classics like The Secret Garden - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:08
There were still period classics like The Secret Garden
But there was also something more raw and more real. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
But there was also something more raw and more real.
After the Divorce Act of 1969, families became much more complex - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:09
After the Divorce Act of 1969, families became much more com...
One feels so sorry for the child, though. Such a grubby little thing. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
One feels so sorry for the child, though. Such a grubby litt...
From Kizzy, where an orphan traveller child is threatened - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
From Kizzy, where an orphan traveller child is threatened
..to Break In The Sun, where a young girl runs away - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
..to Break In The Sun, where a young girl runs away
Always hitting me - sometimes for nothing. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
Always hitting me - sometimes for nothing.
And The Cuckoo Sister, where a baby snatched from her pram - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
And The Cuckoo Sister, where a baby snatched from her pram
Then Tracy Beaker hit our screens in 2002. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
Then Tracy Beaker hit our screens in 2002.
I'm in Newcastle to meet actor Dani Harmer, - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:08
I'm in Newcastle to meet actor Dani Harmer,
First ever series. I was 12 years old. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
First ever series. I was 12 years old.
That was two decades ago. Yeah, let's have a nosey. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
That was two decades ago. Yeah, let's have a nosey.
We're on the set of the 10th series of The Dumping Ground, - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:07
We're on the set of the 10th series of The Dumping Grou...
The first house that we ever used was actually based - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
The first house that we ever used was actually based
So you could almost see their personality - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:06
So you could almost see their personality
Not everyone felt it was appropriate teatime viewing. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:04
Not everyone felt it was appropriate teatime viewing.
And I still get it now where parents come up to me and say, like, - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:08
And I still get it now where parents come up to me and say, ...
They kind of didn't want their kids copying her behaviour. - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
They kind of didn't want their kids copying her behavio...
Most people saw her as just a naughty kid - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:08
Most people saw her as just a naughty kid
I'd rather have a dad like that, that visited, - Kids' TV: The Surprising Story 00:05
I'd rather have a dad like that, that visited,