Noddy (character) Hoffmann". Noddy, Big Ears and PC Plod are referred to in the "Two Ronnies" crossword sketch where Ronnie Corbett thinks their names are "Roddy, Big Ears, and PC Plop!" In an episode of "Last of the Summer Wine", all of the characters dressed up as fairy tale characters for a parade. Smiler is dressed as Noddy complete with a smaller version of his car in order to tow a bouncy castle with the rest of the characters on it. But it deflated while they were taking part. Noddy being associated with small children's reading has led to "Noddy" being sometimes
Noddy (camera) acronym "NODD" was first recorded in a web forum related to TV presentation, where an author unconnected with the BBC claimed it stood for Nexus Orthicon Display Device. However, the term is not recognised among the many surviving Presentation and Engineering staff who worked with the system and internal BBC paperwork of the era specifically refers to the camera system as "Noddy". Presentation's "Noddy" camera also had a companion, originally named "Big Ears", which was a dual monochrome slide scanner, thus allowing in-vision changes between slides. With the advent of colour this was replaced with a Rank Cintel slide scanner,