Meet your favourite characters, Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, the Tombliboos and many more in The Night Garden: a magical nursery rhyme picture-book place that exists between waking and sleeping in a child's imagination. From 23 April until 10 June 2007, the show took a break from airing on the CBeebies channel although it was still shown on BBC Two. Until 1 April 2008, the show aired on the CBeebies channel every day, including weekends, at 6:25 PM in the "Bedtime Hour" slot after The Story Makers Series 2-4 episodes, in addition to earlier daytime showings on weekdays (like every other show on CBeebies, the same episodes are shown all day). Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

It, and the Stepping Stone Path, Makka Pakka's Cave and the Pontipines/Wottingers' House, were first featured in the episode "Makka Pakka Washes Faces". If you've never seen In the Night Garden then I'd like you to go and watch a couple of episodes, then come back and explain it to me. In some episodes, when a problem needs solving, the gazebo spins and chooses a picture until it finds one associated to a solution that will solve the problem.This started coming into place in 2004 when Davenport created sketches for the characters of Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka. The creators of this magical show on the CBeebies channel have turned to the toymakers Hasbro to come up with all the In The Night Garden merchandise.

The episodes end with the Tittifers singing their song, and then one character gets ready to go to sleep.

Wood states: "We became very aware of the anxiety surrounding the care of young children which manifested itself in all kind of directions; but the one big subject that came up again and again was bedtime.