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June 13, 1958

The Big Game is a game show created by Jackson Stanley Productions. It ran on NBC in prime time from June 13 to September 19, 1958. It was hosted by Tom Kennedy.

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all.

January 1, 1974

Mio Mao, also known as Mio and Mao, is an Italian-British children's TV show produced by Misseri Studios, HiT Entertainment & Mad Mouse Productions, L+H Films, Cartoonito and Channel 5. The series was produced using Claymation animation.

The first series of Mio Mao was aired from 1974 to 1976. New episodes were produced in late 2005 in association with Channel 5, followed by yet another series of episodes in 2009. The music was composed by Piero Barbetti.

In the U.K., the episodes are narrated by Derek Griffiths and shown on Channel 5, and its sister channel, 5*. Although occasional episodes are listed separately in TV guides, many are also shown as part of Channel 5's Milkshake programme and Tiny Pop and Cartoonito. The show is now available through the Demand 5 online viewing service. In 1993, the program was shown in the UK. on Channel 4's early morning Take 5 line-up.

Currently the episodes are shown in the US on the BabyFirstTV and BabyTV channel.

April 7, 1976

Name That Tune is the British version of the American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. It first premiered 7 April 1976 as a 15-minute slot on the popular entertainment series London Night Out and was turn into a half-hour weekly series in 1983. The first series were hosted by Tom O'Connor. In 1997, the game shoe was revived for two series on Channel 5 with Jools Holland as the host.

December 24, 1977

Athletes compete for a place in the World Finals.

October 9, 1984

Thomas & Friends is a British children's television series, which had its first broadcast on the ITV network on 4 September 1984. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry. These books deal with the adventures of a group of anthropomorphised locomotives and road vehicles who live on the fictional Island of Sodor. The books were based on stories Wilbert told to entertain his son, Christopher during his recovery from measles. From Series one to four, many of the stories are based on events from Awdry's personal experience.

November 17, 1987

Follow the adventures of fireman Sam and his colleagues as they protect the citizens of the Welsh town of Pontypandy. Whenever the alarm sounds, brave Sam and his co-workers can be counted on to jump into a fire engine, hop onto a helicopter, or even launch an inflatable lifeboat to battle blazes, mount rescue missions, or provide medical attention to those in need.

September 11, 1993

A series of five of Eric Carle’s most popular stories which bring the wonders of the world surrounding young children into focus.

September 5, 1995

Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United Kingdom, the program was fully animated, and the characters were voiced by British voice actors Geoffrey Palmer, Gordon Peters, and Jill Shilling. The show was narrated by Geoffrey Palmer. In the United States, the voices were dubbed into North American English by Canadian voice actors and the program had live-action segments between animated segments.

March 30, 1997

Focuses on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.

March 31, 1997

100% is a television game show that ran in the United Kingdom from 31 March 1997 to 24 December 2001.

The Reg Grundy production was often billed as "The game show without a host" but it did, however, have a presenter in its announcer, former Thames Television newsreader Robin Houston. He read the questions off-screen throughout the show and was never seen by the viewers.

In its original format, three players would take three seconds or less to push buttons on the set corresponding to the multiple-choice answers of 100 general-knowledge questions.

Although pulling in reasonable ratings for the channel, it was dropped as part of a station revamp just before 2002.

April 5, 1997

Night Fever was a karaoke style show airing in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 from 5 April 1997 to 30 March 2002. It was hosted by Suggs and in the early series, he was helped by 'The Big Guy in the Sky' - a disembodied voice giving the scores, and later by 'Wolfie' - John Ireland dressed as Mozart. Later series were co-hosted by Will Mellor and Sarah Cawood replaced later by Kieron Elliott and Danielle Nicholls. The programme often had themed shows such as Valentine's Day. Also, Suggs was helped by Pop Monkey who supposedly gave Suggs the choices of songs.

September 22, 1997

An inside, behind-the-scenes look at the practice of law, and the lawyers whose lives are caught up in their work with each other.

November 3, 1997
January 2, 1998

An animated series about the unusual events that happen to a bear and his pals. Based on a series of children's books by Lee Davis. The characters are stuffed puppets that involve the use of stop-motion animation.

August 24, 1998

House Doctor is a television programme, originally broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK. Each week, the House Doctor - Californian real-estate stylist, Ann Maurice - helps UK home-owners sell their houses with her industry know-how and style tips. The popularity of the show has lent the word "house doctoring" to the British English lexicon, which is similar to the American term home staging. This program is now shown in many countries around the globe, which is broadening the use and familiarity of this term.

September 1, 1998

Trisha Goddard, formerly called Trisha, was a British tabloid talk show hosted by Trisha Goddard. It initially aired on ITV in the mornings from 1998 to 2004 before moving to Channel 5, where it was broadcast until 2010. It was also shown on ITV's digital channel ITV2 with a spin-off show called Trisha: Extra and a double bill of the main Trisha show every afternoon. The programme was moved to Channel 5 and aired from 2005 to 2010.

February 6, 1999

A Twist in the Tale is a 1998 TV series starring William Shatner. Willam Shatner's A Twist In The Tale was a 15 episode short lived television series in the late 1990s. Every week the narrator/host would have a group of children he would tell a story to. The main children were always in the story itself.

April 24, 1999

The Tribe is a New Zealand/British post-apocalyptic fictional TV series primarily aimed at teenagers. It is set in a near-future in which all adults have been wiped out by a deadly virus, leaving the children of the world to fend for themselves. The show's focus is on an unnamed city inhabited by tribes of children and teenagers. It was primarily filmed in and around Wellington, New Zealand.

The series was created by Raymond Thompson and Harry Duffin and was developed and produced by the Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group in conjunction with the UK's Channel 5. It has aired on over 40 broadcast networks around the world.

September 8, 1999

To save his besieged Abbey, a young mouse novice must learn of his destiny to be the successor to a great warrior.

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