Here's Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper from 2010 discussing the brilliant
Look Around You:
One of the programmes referred to in the first 5 minutes of the interview is
Experiment, which was made by Granada Television in the 1970s and 80s. You can see (and hear) how much they nailed the detail, right down to the voiceover by one Jack Smith, a former chemistry teacher.
Be sure to write that down in your copybooks.