Playskool Moon and Me Take and Go Toy House

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The series eschews CGI. “We use puppetry to make the toys come alive and stop motion animation for Moon Baby. We’re trying to make a different world that doesn’t look like anything else out there. It’s a handcrafted with 500 individually-designed props and furnishings. The viewer is at eye level and sees the whole toy house.” In The Night Garden was another billion-pound hit for Davenport (BBC) From little girls to grown-ups, everyone simply loves Moon And Me Toys that makes it one of the most loved toys in recent generations. We just hadn’t prepared for that kind of interest at all,” says Davenport. “People’s relatives were getting doorstepped, which is a surprising place to be in thanks to a pre-school children’s television programme. And the show took on a meaning of its own in the culture that was a little uncontrollable, which in hindsight was fine, but did mean a lot of things were said about it that weren’t true.”

FOUR FELT COLOURING BOARDS - A fun, screen-free creative activity that is a great introduction to arts and crafts for kids. Each of the velvet pictures has a different design featuring Pepi Nana, Moon Baby, Mr Onion and Colly Wobble from the hit children's TV series Moon and Me. Last year, we revealed how Blue Peter was voted the top kids TV show ever – how many others do you remember? Moon And Me aired for the first time in January and is by the creator of Teletubbies Credit: WARNING: Use of this image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Michael Towner, Commissioning Editor at CBeebies, said it was “vital” for children to experience quality UK-originated pre-school programming.Debuted in 1997 and has now seen by an estimated billion children in 120 countries. Controversy followed the four creatures with televisions on their abdomens who played each day in Teletubbyland. Davenport, 53, who has a BSc in speech sciences, conducted his own academic research before embarking on the project. “I was interested in the literary storm of ‘toy house’ stories in the middle of the nineteenth century which are still in print today,” Davenport told i.

The programme was created by Andrew Davenport, whose credits also include pre-school hits Teletubbies and In The Night Garden. A new CBeebies show called Moon and Me is freaking out parents Credit: WARNING: Use of this image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Ninky Nonk, Pontipines, Igglepiggle made their first appearance in 2007 and are still shown on CBeebies every evening.

Davenport’s ideas were pretty radical at the time – incorporating the likes of Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky into his surreal stories – but that didn’t stop people criticising Teletubbies. Stephen Byers, the schools minister at the time, even said it represented a “dumbing down” of British culture, due to its supposedly unintelligible language. “I think the rigour in which it was constructed was largely missed,” he says. Given that every morning since our interview, my daughter has woken up and asked “Where’s Pepi Nana?” repeatedly until we put it on, I think he’s probably going to be ok.