In 1984 Anne Wood founded a company to produce children's shows for TV, the early shows from which included Pob's Programme, Playbox and Teletubbies. What was it called?
Playbox (1987 TV series) Playbox (1987 TV series) Playbox is a British children's television programme for pre-school children aged 2–5, which was broadcast on ITV. It debuted on 31 August 1987, and aired through 18 September 1992. "Playbox" was produced by Central Independent Television. The programme was the first ragdoll television show to be made by ITV. It was created by Leslie Pitts, and Anne Wood who had just founded Ragdoll Productions. The show took place inside a red, yellow and blue box, with the main characters, Cat and Dog, being controlled by a puppeteer (Marcus Clarke) from inside the box. The puppets would
Anne Wood Garden Dipdap Anne Wood Anne Wood, CBE (born 1 December 1937) is an English children's television producer, responsible for co-creating shows such as "Rosie and Jim" with Andrew Davenport. She is also the co-creator of "Tots TV" and "Teletubbies". She was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, England, and grew up in Tudhoe Colliery, a small coal-mining village nearby. She qualified as a secondary school teacher through the Bingley Training College in Yorkshire and took up her first teaching post back home in Spennymoor. She married Barrie Wood in 1959 and moved to Surbiton in Surrey where she took up a