NO RECAP of 70s pub­lic safety films would be com­plete without the badly-animated adven­tures of Char­ley the cat and his deformed owner, whose name you never learned as his mother was prob­ably too ashamed of birth­ing such a mon­stros­ity to give it a human moniker (he was actu­ally called Tony). Pro­duced by the Cent­ral Office of Inform­a­tion, with Char­ley being voiced by the bril­liant Kenny Ever­ett, the undy­namic duo appeared in six one-minute clips teach­ing little kids the dangers of rivers, matches, teapots(!), tables, pic­nics and strangers, all things that were appar­ently just wait­ing to kill kids in 70s Bri­tain:

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