Creating Teletubbies

Published: Dec. 9, 2022, 10 a.m.

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It\\u2019s 1994 and the BBC is looking for a brand-new children\\u2019s TV series.

TV producer Anne Wood decides she\\u2019s going to make a show aimed at an audience that\\u2019s never had programmes made for it before \\u2013 two and three-year-olds.

She tells Melanie Stewart-Smith the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.

(Photo: Teletubbies. Credit: Ragdoll Productions for the BBC/Wildbrain)

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