Let's Pretend — Season 1, Episode 1: The Story of the Broken Puppet

About Let's Pretend

Let's Pretend was a 1980s children's television series aimed at preschool ages. It was shown across the ITV Network at 12.10 on Tuesdays, then later Mondays, replacing the popular Pipkins which had been cancelled at the end of 1981. Like its predecessor, each edition was fifteen minutes long, and the programme was produced using many of Pipkins' personnel such as puppeteer Nigel Plaskitt and producer Michael Jeans. Each week the presenters would find a number of ordinary household items and contrive to produce a short story featuring them all. The first programme, "The Story Of The Broken Puppet", was shown on Tuesday 5 January 1982 by Central Television. The show aired weekly until 1988. The show's original opening titles featured items moving along a conveyor belt into the mouth of a large plastic whale, and later a puppet caterpillar moving along the screen.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2The Story of the Leaping Frog
• E3The Story of the Dancing Elephant
• E4The Hungry Pillar Box
• E5The Garden Bench
• E6The Shoe That Wanted to Go Its Own Way
• E7The Whistling Kettle
• E8The Teapot That Lost Its Lid
• E9The Zoo Keeper and the Giraffe
• E10The Story of the Cleaner and the Cook
• E11The Story of the Rabbit and the Mole
• E12The Tale of Two Bears
• E13The Story of How the Bus Got Up the Hill