Both before and since "Doctor Who", Aldred has had a varied and busy television career, particularly in children's programming, where she has presented educational programmes such as "Corners", "Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams" (which ran from 1992 to '96), Tiny and Crew (which she presented, 1995–96), the BBC series "Words and Pictures" (1992, 1996-2001), and also the CITV paranormal show "It's a Mystery" in 1996. She also played the character Minnie The Mini Magician from series 8 onwards in CITV's "ZZZap!" between 1999 and 2001.