How It's Made simplify overdubbing in different languages. For example, the show currently avoids showing a narrator or onscreen host, does not often have employees of featured companies speak on camera, and keeps human interaction with the manufacturing process to a bare minimum. An off-screen narrator explains each process, often with humorous puns. Each half-hour show usually has three or four main segments, with each product getting a demonstration of approximately five minutes; exceptions are allowed in the allotted time for more complex products. Usually, every show has at least one product with a historic background note preceding it, showing how and where
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding pudding. Potter had considerable experience drawing rats, mice, and cats before approaching "Samuel Whiskers" but the book is exceptional in her "oeuvre" for the many interior scenes at Hill Top and the character and personality of the domineering Samuel Whiskers. In 1933, Theron K. Butterworth published a dramatic adaptation of the tale as "Mr. Samuel Whiskers". In 1993, an animated film adaptation was telecast on the BBC anthology series, "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" with the voices of Rosemary Leach as Tabitha Twitchet, John Gordon Sinclair as John Joiner, Patricia Routledge as Ribby, Struan Rodger as Samuel Whiskers,