Toytown Tin Soldiers" by Leon Jessel. The first radio performances were as follows: A puppet show called "Stories from Toytown Featuring Larry the Lamb" was first broadcast on ITV between 1972 and 1974. Twenty-six of Hulme Beaman's stories were adapted for television by his friend Hendrik Baker. The Noddy stories, written from 1949 to 1963 for children by author Enid Blyton, take place in a location called Toyland. Toytown Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for "Children's Hour" on the Home Service. The plays were based on a set of puppets created by S. G. Hulme Beaman, who
Noddy (character) The total number is hard to count: the "Noddy Library" (Sampson Low) of two dozen titles, which became the "New Noddy Library" when revised, was just part of a big production in the 1950s, with "Big Noddy Books" of larger format, and strip books. There were numerous spin-offs, also. Widely differing estimates can be found. Sales of Noddy books are large, with an estimated 600,000 annual sales in France alone, and growing popularity in India, a large market for Blyton books. The Noddy character was formerly owned by Chorion, who sold the rights on to DreamWorks Classics (a part of