Extraordinary wasn't BBC - it was the rival ITV station's Granada subsidiary - based in Manchester. Their educational programs as well as the BBC's helped inspire Look Around You.

UK kids series Inigo Pipkin, a sort of Sesame St knockoff actually in 1973 recognised its star's death, when just a few weeks into the second series, veteran actor George Woodbridge, a regular in Hammer horrors and Michael Powell films died, so they killed his character off - Inigo Pipkin and had the puppet characters…