The inclusion of these animated characters provided a reassuring presence to younger children who would have been potentially traumatized by the events depicted in the films.
This focuses on the consequences of vandalism to electrical infrastructure and opens with a teenage boy, encouraged by friends, throwing a chain up to a 132,000 volt pylon, causing an explosive short circuit which in turn triggers an area blackout.
It subsequently transpires that the dead girl is in fact the younger sister of the teenage vandal who caused the power cut.
However, in both formats, the other two films are narrated by Brian Wilde and also commence and end with a white on black caption with the words 'Play Safe' placed between two prongs between which a violent arc of electricity then occurs.
The 'Play Safe' campaign was superseded in 1988 by a new film called 'Powerful Stuff' which was also presented in both a longer version for schools and separate stand-alone PIFs for television broadcast.