About this season
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.
Episodes (18)
1. The Magic Bubble
Aired 13 March 1989
2. The Well-Dressed Parrot
Aired 20 March 1989
3. The Noisy Neighbour
Aired 3 April 1989
4. Slow But Not Sure
Aired 10 April 1989
5. Ted
Aired 17 April 1989
6. The Birdwatcher
Aired 24 April 1989
7. The Basset Hound and Mrs Barker
Aired 8 May 1989
8. Swopping Jack
Aired 15 May 1989
9. The Clock that Went on Strike
Aired 22 May 1989
10. The Watchamacallit
Aired 5 June 1989
11. Andy and the Lion
Aired 12 June 1989
12. The Bread and Butter Soldier
Aired 19 June 1989
13. The Dam
Aired 26 June 1989
14. Messy Max
Aired 3 July 1989
15. The King's Move
Aired 10 July 1989
16. The Deckchair Attendant
Aired 17 July 1989
17. The Lonely Spider
Aired 24 July 1989
18. Mrs Knowall
Aired 31 July 1989