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Jackanory

8.0(2)19655 seasons · 87 episodes15m / ep
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Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap-o'-Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 1996, clocking up around 3,500 episodes in its 30-year run. The final story, The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, was read by Alan Bennett and broadcast on 24 March 1996. The show returned on 27 November 2006 for two one-off stories. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair. From time to time the scene being read would be illustrated by a specially commissioned still drawing, often by Quentin Blake. Usually a single book would occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes, from Monday to Friday.

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Status
Returning Series
Type
Scripted
Last aired
1991-01-04
Language
English
  • BBC One

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Director

Paul Stone

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First aired
1965-12-13
Latest episode
1991-01-04
Status
Returning Series
Next release
In production
  • Season 113 Dec 1965
  • 1979-19801 Oct 1979
  • Season 19TBA
  • Season 29TBA
  • Season 34TBA

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