Editing Children in Need (section)

=== Earlier BBC appeals ===
The BBC's inaugural charity appeal was a five-minute radio broadcast on Christmas Day 1927, raising approximately £1,342 for four children's charities.<ref name="About Us">{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/aboutus/history.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025155547/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/aboutus/history.shtml |archive-date=25 October 2009 |access-date=17 November 2014 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

The first televised appeal, the ''[[Children's Hour]]'', aired in 1955. Fronted by [[Harry Corbett]] and the yellow [[glove puppet]] [[Sooty]] Bear, these appeals continued annually on television and radio until 1979, raising a total of £625,836.<ref name="About Us"/> Sir [[Terry Wogan]] made his debut during the five-minute appeal in 1978 and returned in 1979.<ref name="About Us"/> Animated characters such as [[Peter Pan]] and [[Tom and Jerry]] occasionally featured in these broadcasts.