I don't think anything fitting exactly the same niche here. In Britain during the 1970s and 1980s, you tended to have two kinds of serious programming directed towards children. You had a few entirely serious programmes during the children's slot such as Newsround and the more serious bits of the main magazine programmes got children, such as Blue Peter and Magpie.

And then you had the educational programmes designed specifically for use in schools and sixth-form colleges, which were broadcast on the BBC and ITV on weekday mornings, which we would often see in school when the big TV on a roller trolley would be wheeled into the classroom. The ones which still have a cachet will vary by generation. I think quite a few people in my generation obviously remember Look and Read and Magic e - Picture Box (with its creepy theme tune), Stop, Look and Listen and How We Used to Live are some others which I think sometimes strike a chord in popular memory.