Fact Check: ‘Teletubbies’ Were NOT Inspired By Purported Story Of Institutionalized Children’s Horrifying Deaths | Lead Stories

“Anne Wood, co-creator of the show, and Andrew Davenport, the series writer, told The Guardian in a 2013 article titled, ‘How we made: Teletubbies,’ that their inspiration for the show’s characters came from visiting the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Wood recalled the initial development of the show: ‘We were interested in how children were reacting to the increasingly technological environment of the late 1990s. We’d just visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and Andrew [Davenport] had been amused at how astronauts looked like toddlers in nappies.’”