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Series · 1993–2009
Magic Grandad
6 seasonsCBBC
- Kids
Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch Off' during Schools section of 1993. The show saw 'Magic' Grandad take his young grandchildren back in time, many of the adventures are about comparing the past and the present and seeing how evidence of what happened in the olden days still survives. The show was said to make learning about history "fun for youngsters" and was aimed at children aged 5-7 years. The series was introduced to support the History National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. New seasons have been made periodically to support new areas of the infant history curriculum such as seaside holidays and toys. The early season have a companion booklet of teacher's notes with descriptions of the episodes, various suggestions for follow-up work and photocopiable worksheets.
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Seasons
6 seasons · 21 episodes
- 90 years Ago3 episodes · 1993
- Famous People4 episodes · 1994
- Seaside Holiday3 episodes · 2001
- Toys3 episodes · 2003
- Famous People 24 episodes · 2003
- More Famous People4 episodes · 2009
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Cast
Sam KellyGrandad
Details
- Created by
- Margaret Simpson
- Director
- Anne Ross Muir
- Writer
- Anne Ross Muir, Sharon Miller, Emma Collins
- Cinematography
- Paul Riley
- Producer
- Hazel Graham
- First aired
- January 12, 1993
- Last aired
- June 18, 2009
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- CBBC
- Episode length
- 15m
- Language
- English
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