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Creating Teletubbies

Find out how, in 1994, spacemen and technology helped inspire Anne Wood to create one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time.

It鈥檚 1994 and the 麻豆社 is looking for a brand-new children鈥檚 TV series.

TV producer Anne Wood decides she鈥檚 going to make a show aimed at an audience that鈥檚 never had programmes made for it before 鈥� 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 麻豆社/Wildbrain)

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