It's Friday, it's five to five, it's...Crackerjack!

(CRACKERJACK!)

Ah. A catchphrase of a more innocent age. Still, children's television in the UK has a long history. It began on the BBC in 1946 - with the launch of For the Children which brought the world Muffin the Mule - and was conceived as a 'service in miniature.'

The 1950s saw the development of Andy Pandy, and the dawn of commercial television introduced British children to imports such as The Adventures of Robin Hood. The 1960s brought us Play School and Blue Peter. The 1970s saw the genre transform Saturday mornings, with Tiswas and Multi-coloured Swap Shop and also saw the creation of contemporary dramas such as Grange Hill. The 1980s brought us a lot of music-related programmes, such as Razzmatazz and the seminal Cheggers Plays Pop. Programmes for preschoolers, such as Teletubbies took over the world in the 1990s, and with the new Millennium we now have dedicated satellite and cable channels showing children's programmes exclusively.

This week, we want you to tell us:

• What was your favourite television programme as a child and why? Does it stand up to the test of time?

• Which programmes did you loathe?

• Should children's programming be educational?

• Have standards gone down?

• Should children really have their own television programmes?

• The Chuckle Brothers: Why?