Future Generations

Future Generations: Small People was a charity programme for Children in Need, put together by the BBC in 1998 as a sequel of sorts to the great success of the previous year's Perfect Day charity single.

The programme was dedicated to the BBC's vast output of children's programmes and featured five-year-old Scott Chisholm, dressed in 1950s-style school uniform, walking round various children's programmes past and present, sometimes interacting with the characters. It was first shown on 1 December 1998, within the Children in Need charity programme.

The promotion was not meant to be like Perfect Day, but instead reminding the viewers of what their license fee was paying for. The following year, a similar promotion was created entitled Shaggy Dog Story. This promotion featured a collection of BBC comedians and was used to represent the diverse range of comedic output.

Characters

The programmes and characters that were included were, in order of appearance:

gollark: Has anyone ever actually *asked* most of the frequently asked questions?
gollark: I think politics is probably about as controversial as theology. Most people here are probably not the demographic to care much about theological conflict stuff.
gollark: We probably only need info, introductions/welcome (could be merged), computers, maths, politics/economics, general "things" (#3d-printing/<#694964719135490078>/<#677752722761711618>/<#677667174826901513>), media (music, creative works, video games, misc and links), images/things in the world (aviation/images/luxury hotels/surface transport/restaurants/pets).
gollark: I feel like this is an unproductively large number of channels.
gollark: No idea, not really, yes, people do that a lot, that's kind of done a bit, no.

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