In the Night Garden – episode 60

I watched this with my nephew at the weekend. He's eighteen months old. While he seemed to find it engaging enough, I felt it lacked narrative cohesion.

Disclaimer

While I'm pretty sure the episode we watched was number 60: 'Upsy Daisy Dances with the Pinky Ponk', it's fair to say it could just as easily have been episode 99: 'Upsy Daisy Dances with the Haahoos', whose plot seems to run along similar lines, according to Wikipedia's list of In the Night Garden episodes, which exists.
Synopsis

Well, there was some dancing.

Key themes

Um ... mainly just the dancing, really. It was a fairly consistent motif throughout the piece. Actually, come to think of it, there was ... no ... no, it was pretty much just the dancing.
Vaguely serious bit

Here's the thing. My nephew likes to run around, make a lot of noise and stick his fingers in my nose. This is all great fun, but if you want him to shut his pie-hole for twenty minutes, you can just stick on Igglepiggle and the gang and he'll watch it in total silence. The effect is really quite pronounced. But then it is specifically designed to be soporific, as producer Anne Wood has said.

And it's true that the whole show is about going to bed. Each episode constitutes a dream had by a different child, which is then summarised at the end by a big spinning gazebo, whereupon everyone lies down for some shut-eye. It's basically Inception without the CGI. And with a gazebo.

Igglepiggle. Not pictured: YOUR CHILD'S SOUL.

Anyway, it gets five stars because my nephew loves it. If you disagree, then you literally want to make a toddler cry. For shame.