Step Inside

Before Chris landed the presenter's role on Cbeebies, there was Step Inside.
Old school kids programming at its best.

The plot is a little far fetched.  Chris plays Mr Mopple, the strange
gardener/handyman at a big house inhabited by only a talking clock, a
talking bookshelf and a cat called Twinkle.

This might be sounding like the plot of an eighties straight-to-video horror
movie.  When the house says in a sinister voice, "Step inside, all those who
like stories", you become concerned for Mr Mopple's well-being.

Once Mr Mopple steps inside the house though, all is OK - no gruesome
murders, just a classic children's book to be read.

Mr Mopple and Twinkle the Cat trying to out-camp each other provides the
comic aside.  (Yes, we couldn't believe Twinkle was a boy cat either.)

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