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Teletubbies is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on their bellies.
- One episode scared children so much that it had to be banned. The episode in question, ‘See Saw’, contained a lion and a bear made of moving cutouts that somehow manage to be incredibly creepy.
- The Teletubbies were given the keys to New York City in 2007. To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Teletubbies visited NYC, receiving the above honour as well as having the actors’ identities revealed for the first time: John Simmit as Dipsy, CBeebies presenter Pui Fan Lee as Po; dancer Nicky Smedley as Laa Laa; and the late Simon Shelton as Tinky Winky.
- The Teletubbies’ home has been flooded. Advertisement. Following the show’s enormous success, the owner of the land where the exterior shots of Teletubbies’ home were shot, Rosemary Harding, got so fed up with trespassers that she flooded the Wimpstone, Warwickshire site where Teletubbyland sat.
- Tubby Custard is actually just mashed potato. The Teletubbies’ snack of choice is a combination of mashed potato, red and yellow acrylic paint – not for consumption.
Jun 9, 2023 · The Teletubbies, those cute and funny characters distinguished by their respective colors: Tinky Winky (purple), Dipsy (green), Laa-Laa (yellow), and Po (red), marked the childhood of children who grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s. A show that fused elements of reality and fiction!
The Teletubbies, portrayed by costumed actors, are soft round humanoids of toddlerlike proportions, with simple smiling faces, uniquely shaped aerial antennas on their heads, tummy-mounted silver television screens, and age-appropriate waddles.
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- The British children’s television show Teletubbies was created by producer Anne Wood and writer Andrew Davenport for the BBC in 1997.
- The Teletubbies are soft round humanoids of toddler-like proportions, with simple smiling faces, uniquely shaped aerial antennas on their heads, tu...
- Tinky Winky, Po, Laa-Laa, and Dipsy are the names of the Teletubbies. Tinky Winky is predominantly purple, Po red, Laa-Laa yellow, and Dipsy green.
- The last of the 365 original episodes of Teletubbies aired in 2001.
Dec 26, 2022 · She tells the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.
Dec 26, 2022 · TV producer Anne Wood decides she’s going to make a show aimed at an audience that’s never had programmes made for it before – two and three-year-olds. She tells the fascinating story of how...
The preschool show, created by Ragdoll Productions for the BBC, had begun airing in the UK a year earlier, documenting the antics of four giant, alien-looking babies with antennae atop their...
