each of the original 26 episodes lasted approximately 5 minutes and were broadcast at 5:35pm on bbc1, continuing a tradition of short cartoons (such as "the magic roundabout" and "the wombles") being shown on weekdays between the end of the main children's programming for that afternoon, and the bbc evening news at 5:40pm. the series was repeated on satellite channel galaxy in 1989 and on channel 4 during the early 1990s.