Let's Pretend

Let's Pretend was a 1980s children's television series aimed at preschool ages. It was shown across the ITV Network at 12.10 on Tuesdays, then later Mondays, replacing the popular Pipkins which had been cancelled at the end of 1981. Like its predecessor, each edition was fifteen minutes long, and the programme was produced using many of Pipkins' personnel such as puppeteer Nigel Plaskitt and producer Michael Jeans. Each week the presenters would find a number of ordinary household items and contrive to produce a short story featuring them all. The first programme, "The Story Of The Broken Puppet", was shown on Tuesday 5 January 1982 by Central Television. The show aired weekly until 1988. The show's original opening titles featured items moving along a conveyor belt into the mouth of a large plastic whale, and later a puppet caterpillar moving along the screen.

First aired

January 5, 1982

Last aired

July 31, 1989

Status

Returning Series

Original language

English

Episodes

235

Genres

Kids, Family

• Season One18 episodes · 1982
• Season Two34 episodes · 1982
• Season Three35 episodes · 1983
• Season Four31 episodes · 1984
• Season Five32 episodes · 1985
• Season Six34 episodes · 1986
• Season Seven33 episodes · 1987
• Season Eight18 episodes · 1989