For the Children
For the Children was the umbrella title given to
The series featured a variety of different presenters and acts: story readings, puppet shows, songs. On Saturday 13 March 1937, George Queen's Pantomime Goose was shown in the For the Children slot, the opening programme before In Your Garden came on at 3:10pm.[2][3] In October 1946 the "hugely popular" children's puppet Muffin the Mule made his television debut on the show, accompanied by his "friend" Annette Mills.[4] The puppet's character was devised by the puppeteer Ann Hogarth.[5]
For the Children was last broadcast in December 1952, when "Children's Television" became the title used for the afternoon children's sequences, until use of an overall title was abandoned in the late 1950s.
References
- ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/ca8614241e4a45269f796d3f20f4f8a8 [bare URL]
- ^ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". 13 March 1937.
- ^ "On This Day in TV History".
- ^ Jamieson, Alastair (16 April 2003), "Muffin the Mule kicks back to life", The Scotsman, archived from the original on 11 February 2017
- ^ Jane Phillips, 'Hogarth, Ann (1910–1993)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, 2004 accessed 10 Feb 2017
Further reading
- Vahimagi, Tise (1994), British Television: An Illustrated Guide, ISBN 0-19-818336-4