Dappledown Farm

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Dappledown Farm is a British children's television programme, starring and presented by Brian Cant and a series of puppets. It began airing on 11th March 1990 on TV-am^[1] until 27th December 1992^[2] and was originally broadcast on Sunday mornings. After TVAM's closure, the re-runs were broadcast on The Children's Channel in 1993^[3] before it was later moved to Channel 5's Milkshake! in 1997^[4] when the series got rebooted in 1998.

Despite the fact that production of the show stopped in 1999, it was still shown in repeats until November 2004.^[5]

In the show's narrative, Cant's character Brian was the owner of the Dappledown Farm. For each episode, he introduced feature cartoons from a studio farm set.^[6] For example, in the first episode, Brian told the story of animals on the farm that hatched from an egg such as birds, snakes, and tortoises.^[7] In addition to the puppets, the show also integrated stories that involve real-life animals.