It was shown across the ITV network, originally at 12:10 on Tuesdays, then later on Mondays, replacing the popular Pipkins which had been cancelled at the end of 1981.
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.
Between each new season selected repeats from the previous one were usually shown, giving the programme an almost weekly presence in the TV schedules for several years.
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.