Release Date

05 Jan, 1982

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

235/8

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Let's Pretend

Photos

Season One

05 Jan, 1982

Season Two

24 Aug, 1982

Season Three

26 Sep, 1983

Season Four

15 Oct, 1984

Season Five

14 Oct, 1985

Season Six

06 Oct, 1986

Season Seven

12 Oct, 1987

Season Eight

13 Mar, 1989

Actors