There was a time when the Wide Awake Club (or WAC, as children everywhere knew it), and, subsequently Wacaday, rode high in the nation's television ratings at breakfast time.

As Saturday morning entertainment went, it was a familiar mix of fun, slapstick and the now inevitable set of adults behaving like children. (You wouldn't find Muffin the Mule throwing a custard pie or being savagely 'gunged', of course, but these are changed days and that's a different matter.)

Back when Timmy Mallet was in his prime and Margaret Thatcher was in No.10, receiving a boffing from Pinky Punky was the equivalent of being gnawed by Emu a decade earlier. The implication was clear. By boffed on the bonce by Mallet's Mallet and you had arrived.

Now you can re-enact all manner of early morning televisual japery with the help of a completely authentic, Mallet-authorised version of Pinky Punky in your very own home - and get a free signed photograph of the man himself for good measure.

Lovingly made with a soft foam centre and a colourful fabric outer, it's there to be discovered - and used as an offensive play weapon - by a whole new generation. Be afraid.