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1. Can you identify this British television series for pre-school children which was developed from an earlier programme called "For The Children" and which appeared for nearly thirty years on BBC TV before disappearing from our screens in 1980?
2. Can you identify the original panellists of the Britsh TV series "What's My Line?" which first appeared on UK Television in 1951?
3. This family were featured in the first British TV long running soap series aimed at the younger viewer. The series was broadcast for five years from 1952 and the family consisted of Father, Mother, and four children. Can you please identify this programme?
4. This British TV family drama series had plot lines aimed at the adult viewer. It ran for five years in the 1950s. Can you name this programme named after the featured family?
5. And now for something a little more cerebral. This quiz programme had previously been broadcast on BBC Radio and was brought to BBC TV under the chairmanship of Professor Glyn Daniel. It ran for seven years from 1952. What was the programme called?
6. In the US this TV programme was first broadcast by NBC (1956-1959) and called "Tic-Tac-Dough". What was the British version of this TV quiz show called?
7. A change of mood for this question. This pair of porcine puppet pals first appeared on British TV in 1957. You've probably guessed the names of the characters were "Pinky and Perky" so I want to know which of the two little pigs wore a hat?
8. Another change of genre for you. This British TV programme, usually shown late at night, was first broadcast in 1957 just six months before the launch of Sputnik. Can you identify the name of the presenter of this programme, one of the longest running TV series surviving from the 1950s?
9. Broadcast since 1958 this was another long running British TV series for children to survive from that time and into the twenty-first century. To describe it as a flagship would give you a nautical clue to the title of the programme. Can you name the programme?
10. This was one of my all time favourite programmes broadcast during my formative years. "Noggin The Nog" first appeared in 1959 and was broadcast on BBC TV for the next six years or so. Can you name Noggin's wicked uncle?
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