ABSTRACT
Indeed, the days when children were rarely seen and hardly ever heard are within human memory. Entertainment of any sort was still suspect. The trouble about television is that it never stops, and therefore the times when a producer or director can sit back and think what he is doing are few and far between. Producing television programs for children has, of course, problems of its own. It is the newest branch of the newest type of entertainment and so, inevitably, in recruiting people to write for it, direct for it and appear in it there must be much experiment and much failure. In children’s programs, however, the studio audience is virtually impossible if it is to be of children. Showing children how to make things for themselves is another positive and valuable function of television. So that, far from encouraging docility and uniformity in children, television promotes the exercise of their minds and their bodies.
