Originally part of the Watch With Mother children's series, Joe was a still frame animation concerning a little boy and his family. The central characters were Joe, his mum and dad, Gran, Rosie and Mrs. Higgs. All of them had red rosy cheeks.

The family spent much of their time in a motorway transport café and there were always lots of big burly lorry drivers about. Joe would sometimes climb into the backs of lorries and be whisked down the A6 as fast as lightning.

While that's probably not behaviour we ought to be encouraging in our youngsters of today, Joe remains one of the true classics of 60s British children's television, and deserves to be remembered far better than it seems to be.

The five-minute-long episodes were narrated by Colin Jeavons and drawn by Joan Hickson. The stories were scripted especially for young children by Alison Prince.