Best CBeebies Shows 2019 – And The Worst Ones – According To One Exhausted Dad

19) Tee and Mo.

“Monkey” is one of the cutest words to hear a tiny little kid say, so watching the adventures of simian mum and son Tee Mo with a toddler results in an endless, adorable stream of gurgled “Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!”

18) Our Family/My First/My World Kitchen.

I’ve not seen any of these, but am assured by my pal Mat, who has a slightly older daughter, that they’re great. “These are all good ‘this is daily life in our sometimes devastatingly complex families’ documentary-type shows,” he says. “There’s an episode of Our Family where you get to see two 5-6 year old sisters sticking pictures of their quite recently dead mum in a photo album while their visibly ruined dad helps. It’s more brutal than anything HBO has ever conceived. Real Shane-Meadows-does-CBeebies shit.”

19) Yakka Dee.

Part animated, part live-action, this is all about teaching kids new words. It’s really pleasant, and very upbeat, and one of those things where you go, “I bet editing is a fun job” because it’s all cut together so, like, snazzily.

20) Melody.

Part live-action, part animated, this is all about teaching kids classical music. You’re not watching telly out of laziness, you’re providing your child with the education everyone on University Challenge seems to have had. Plus the credits say: costumes by Dave Smith, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, so there’s that.

21) Something Special: We’re All Friends.

Yet another corner of the Justin Fletcher entertainment empire, We’re All Friends features Fletch in comfortable outdoorwear travelling the country making friends and having nice days with people. It’s pretty hard to fault, although it’s so wholesome that it can make you feel a bit guilty, and long for the “ouch-my-bum” things he does on his other shows. Plus, TumbleTap? It’s an iPad, dude.

22) Let’s Play.

This is one of those shows where it seems like someone’s found a big box of wigs, thrown it at some actors and said “We need 80 episodes”. Yep, go for it.

23) Go Jetters/Octonauts.

These are both fine. One of them’s basically about pandas in a submarine and the other one is something to do with planes. I can totally see myself getting really into them when my daughter is bigger, somehow ending up with a Grandmaster Glitch back tattoo. Fun fact: the voice of Foz from Go Jetters is provided by the guy who played T-Shirt in The Adventures Of T-Bag years ago.