Alphabet Zoo is a series of ten minute programmes for young children, produced by Granada Television

Granada Television

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 and was broadcast on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 for two series in 1983 and 1984. It was presented by singer Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....

 and actress Nerys Hughes

Nerys Hughes

Nerys Hughes , is a Welsh actress, known primarily for her television roles.Nerys Hughes was born in Rhyl, . She studied drama at Rose Bruford College. She is best known for the role of Sandra Hutchinson in the enormously successful BBC TV series The Liver Birds which ran from 1969 to 1978 with a...

. Each episode is dedicated to a letter of the alphabet

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...

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Nearly a decade after Alphabet Zoo came to an end, the format was revived by ITV Carlton on the similarly named series Alphabet Castle

Alphabet Castle

Alphabet Castle was an educational children's television program produced in the UK. It began in September 1993 with a series of 27 episodes aired on ITV Carlton, and ran until December 1995 and later shown on CBeebies and the CITV Channel in 2006 and 2007. It had three main characters: King...

which ran from September 1993 to December 1995.

Series guide

• Series 1: 26 editions , 10 January 1983 - 25 July 1983
• Series 2: 27 editions, 19 September 1983 - 2 April 1984 (Including one Christmas special)