Perfect comparison.

For anyone that's not seen Look Around You, all the episodes are on youtube. Season 1 is the one to start with, there's two seasons and they're very different.

Some of this won't translate as well, the episodes are absurdist versions of shows that used to be on BBC2 very early in the morning. There would be a show as some science lesson, put on at 2am for people to tape and show in classes. I'm sure it's a pretty wide age range but I'm 30 and seeing slightly warped tapes playing this kind of thing was pretty common for me. Still, even without this I think they're pretty fun.

There's also the pilot for calcium on youtube but there's the other episodes here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/LookAroundYouDVD

The shows to which you refer were not necessarily to be shown in classes - AIUI they were the classes/lectures for the Open University, a distance learning uni which still exists to this day. The broadcasts lasted into the mid-00s: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6182747.stm

Ah thanks, my viewing of them was limited entirely to secondary school lessons so I assumed a lot were intended with this audience in mind, sort of a forerunner to bitesize.

I am a fan of this sort of thing, which is probably why the image popped into my mind instantly. Sadly, my ability to generate it is not so great, but I at least get to appreciate it.