Perhaps children's TV is more policed now or kids viewing habits more understood and surveyed, but it seems that gone are the days when we were plonked in front of the goggle-box and subjected to horrifying material.
You know the culprits. Jigsaw had Nosey Bonk, who looks now like a surrealist heist movie character - or maybe there's something of the lone anarchist bomber about him. Back then he was just plain scary.
Little children with impressionable minds watched the BBC's Words & Pictures in the 70s to learn their ABCs usually on tellys at school. This featured "Wordy", a disembodied head that floated that still haunts me today.
