He also performed Worth the Dog in the Woolworths adverts (again opposite Don Austen as Wooly The Sheep), Mervin J Minky on MTV's Fur TV and Rattus Rattus on the CBBC Horrible Histories series and Gory Games.
[3] His "in vision" television career started as one of the original presenters of the UK version of the Mickey Mouse Club, Disney Club, the success of which led to his presenting Run the Risk, The Big Dish, the children's magazine show Brill and Get The Picture, for Nickelodeon.
The characters recorded fifteen episodes of the game show Scratch 'n' Sniff's Den of Doom for Granada Kids.
Eccleston also appeared in the award-winning short film The Box,[5] directed by Michael J. Bassett, and also starring Paul Hendy, Richard Orford and Laurence Akers.
Between 1996–1997, he participated on the second and third series of Jim Henson's Animal Show, manipulating the puppet Yves St. La Roache, among others.