Zokko was a BBC television programme for children that ran on Saturday mornings between 1968 and 1970. It was devised by veteran children's TV producer Molly Cox, and featured a mixture of animations, film clips, magic and narrated cartoons. The show was named after its "presenter", a talking pinball machine (designed by Mike Ellis,the father of Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis,and grandfather of singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor) which introduced the clips and then scored them in its electronic voice e.g. "Zokko, Score 7". The programme is regarded as "the first televised children's comic" (The Independent 7 November, 1991 p 35)...