Let's Pretend was a 1980s children's television series aimed at preschool aged children in the United Kingdom. It was shown across the ITV network at 12:10 on Tuesdays, then later on Mondays, replacing the popular Pipkins which had been cancelled at the end of 1981. Like its predecessor, each edition was fifteen minutes long, and the programme was produced using many of the same personnel, such as the puppeteer Nigel Plaskitt and the producer Michael Jeans. Each week the presenters would find a number of ordinary household items and contrive to produce a short story featuring them all. The first programme, "The Story Of The Broken Puppet", was shown on Tuesday 5 January 1982 by Central Television. The show was broadcast weekly until 1988. Big Centre TV has since re-aired the programme. The show's original opening titles showed items moving along a conveyor belt into the mouth of a large plastic whale, and later a puppet caterpillar moving along the screen. The actual story began with the rising of a curtain with the same puppet caterpillar on accompanied to the same bars of the song On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at that were used as the pre-programme ident of Yorkshire Television. Transmission guide Series 1 (1982) The Story of the Broken Puppet – 5 January 1982 The Story of the Leaping Frog – 12 January 1982 The Story of the Dancing Elephant – 19 January 1982 The Hungry Pillar Box – 26 January 1982 The Garden Bench – 2 February 1982 The Shoe That Wanted to Go Its Own Way – 9 February 1982 The Whistling Kettle – 16 February 1982 The Teapot That Lost Its Lid – 23 February 1982 The Zoo Keeper and the Giraffe – 2 March 1982 The Story of the Cleaner and the Cook – 9 March 1982 The Story of the Rabbit and the Mole – 16 March 1982 The Tale of Two Bears – 23 March 1982 The Story of How the Bus Got up the Hill – 30 March 1982 The Story of the Sleepless Owl – 6 April 1982 The Story of the King Who Loved Bananas – 13 April 1982 The Umbrella That Didn't Like Rain – 20 April 1982 The Cheesemaker and the Mouse – 27 April 1982 The Story of the Giant's Boots – 4 May 1982 Series 2 (1982-1983) The King Who Liked Music – 24 August 1982