Future Generations
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Future Generations was a charity programme for Children in Need, put together by the BBC in 1998 as a sort of sequel to the great success of the previous year's Perfect Day charity single.
The programme was dedicated to the BBC's vast output of children's programmes. It featured five year old Scott Chisholm, dressed in 1950s-style school uniform, walking round various children's programmes past and present, sometimes interacting with the characters. It was first shown on December 1st 1998, within the Children in Need charity programme. The programmes and characters that were included were, in order of appearance:
- Bill and Ben (with Little Weed)
- Muffin the Mule
- Andy Pandy (with Teddy and Looby Lou)
- The Woodentops
- Camberwick Green (Windy Miller and others)
- Trumpton (Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb)
- Chigley (Bessie the steam engine)
- The Magic Roundabout (Florence, Dougal, Ermintrude, Brian and Zebedee)
- Noddy (with Big Ears and Mr Plod)
- Pingu
- Morph
- The Herbs (Parsley the Lion and Dill the Dog)
- Postman Pat (with Jess)
- Bagpuss (in archive footage, with the mice)
- Willo the Wisp (Mavis the fairy)
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
- Spider
- Crystal Tipps and Alistair
- Mary, Mungo and Midge
- Roobarb and Custard
- Mr Benn (with the Shopkeeper)
- Doctor Who (the TARDIS and the Daleks)
- Blue Peter (John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and Lulu the elephant)
- Newsround (John Craven)
- Play School (Derek Griffiths)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- The Borrowers
- The Really Wild Show (Michaela Strachan and a Bengal tiger cub)
- Teletubbies
- Live and Kicking (Zoe Ball)
The next year, the BBC followed up with Shaggy Dog Story, featuring a similar collection of BBC comedians.
