A Hollywood entertainment company, Bento Box Entertainment, partnered with Davenport’s Foundling Bird business to bring to produce Moon and Me, which is designed to relax toddlers and prepare them for sleepy-time. Magical Toy House Meanwhile one person added: “The clown? He's called Colly Wobble. Pretty sure his side job is harvesting organs.” The whole thing has the magical vibe of In the Night Garden, but with a homemade feel … Pepi Nana and Mr Onion in Moon and Me. Photograph: N/A/BBC A ‘HAUNTING’ new CBeebies TV show is giving parents nightmares and some are describing it as worse than most horror films.

Last year, we revealed how Blue Peter was voted the top kids TV show ever – how many others do you remember?A major investment, the fifty-episode Moon and Me is a series of gentle stories about a family of comical toy friends living in a Toy House, and the adventures they all share with a magical visitor, Moon Baby. 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)

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. The show creator said: “I was amazed to see Michael Bublé sing the Igglepiggle song from In the Night Garden in a TV interview, so cheekily asked if he would like to perform a song in Moon and Me. The series “taps into children’s innate curiosity and desire to create through their play routines, forming their own imaginary worlds and relationships through their toys.” Ninky Nonk, Pontipines, Igglepiggle made their first appearance in 2007 and are still shown on CBeebies every evening.

Pepi Nana, Moon Baby and their friends are waiting for your call with the Moon & Me Call & Learn Phone by VTech! 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. Davenport also banned any computer generated imagery (“quite a fight”), instead turning to puppetry, stop-motion animation and homemade effects. “Children are fascinated by real objects,” he says. “They will be able to see the weave of the fabric, the joins in the wallpaper, the printing on the wallpaper. There’s a joy in seeing the messiness.” I thought it was incredible, considering it is a silly song, he was taking it so incredibly seriously.”