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Play School is an educational television programme for pre-school aged children. A nursery school is a school for the education of very young children (generally five years of age and younger). ...
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The original manifestation of Play School was a long-running British series. It was produced by the BBC and ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988. It accidentally became the first ever programme to be shown on the fledgling BBC TWO after a power cut halted the opening night programming. Play School originally appeared on weekdays at 11am on BBC TWO and later acquired a mid-afternoon BBC ONE repeat. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ...
April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ...
1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. // History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts...
BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. // History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts...
BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ...
Presenters throughout the 24-year run included Brian Cant, Carol Chell, Chloe Ashcroft, Derek Griffiths, Eric Thompson, Floella Benjamin, Fred Harris, Johnny Ball, Julie Stevens and Toni Arthur. Brian Cant (Born 12 July 1933 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK) is an actor and television presenter. ...
Carol Chell is a British childrens television presenter, remembered for her appearences on the BBC childrens programme Play School. ...
Chloe Ashcroft was a presenter on several BBC childrens TV programmes, including Play School, Playaway, Hokey-Cokey and Pie in the Sky. ...
Derek Griffiths (born Woking, July 15, 1946) was a star of numerous childrens television programmes in the 1960s to 1980s. ...
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Floella Benjamin (born September 23, 1949) is known to a generation of Britons as a presenter of popular childrens programmes such as Play School and Playaway. ...
Johnny Ball (born May 23, 1938) is a British television personality. ...
Julie Stevens, born 20 December 1936 in Prestwich, England is a British actress. ...
The presenters were accompanied by a supporting cast of cuddly toys and dolls: teddy bears Big Ted and Little Ted, Humpty Dumpty (the egg from the nursery rhyme, sometimes just 'Humpty'), ragdoll Jemima and, finally, Hamble -- a rather dirty and ordinary plastic doll. Hamble was replaced in the later years of the series by Poppy who, in response to changing sensibilities and attitudes, was black. The original doll was also getting rather fragile at this point. The high point of each episode was the video excursion into the outside world taken through one of three windows: the young viewers were invited to guess whether the round, square, or arched window would be chosen that day. A triangular window was added in 1983. Teddy bear The Teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear for children. ...
1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For a while, Play School also had a sister programme, called Playaway. Playaway was a sister programme to Play School in the UK, aimed at slightly older children. ...
Australia An Australian version, also called Play School, is still being produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for Australian and international distribution. It is notable because it is the longest-running program on Australian television, and second only to the American educational program Sesame Street in terms of influence on Australian children. The first episodes aired in 1966. Two episodes screen every day, at 9am and 3pm. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national public broadcaster. ...
From A Celebration of Me, Grover, showing much of the main cast of Sesame Street. ...
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
From the inception of the program, the producers of Play School have made efforts to promote equality, playful education, and a love of learning in its audience. Working on Play School has come to be considered an unusually demanding and important job for some talented actors, because they feel they are becoming part of a generation of children's lives and providing a foundation for learning that will last for life. Long-running Play School presenters have included Noni Hazlehurst, Benita Collings, Alister Smart, Don Spencer (who also appeared in the UK Play School), and John Hamblin. Other notable presenters have included Trisha Goddard, Jay Laga'aia, Deborah Mailman, Philip Quast, Rhys Muldoon and John Waters. Don Spencer is an Australian Childrens TV presenter and musician, best known for his long-running role as a presenter on Play School in both Australia and the United Kingdom. ...
Trisha Goddard (born 1957) is well known for her presentation of the ITV morning talk show Trisha. ...
Jay Lagaaia is an actor from Australia. ...
Deborah Mailman (born 1973), Australian actor, was the first indigenous Australian actor to win the AFI Best Actress Award and played the character Kelly on successful Australian television series, The Secret Life of Us. ...
Philip Quast is an Australian actor perhaps best known for his role as Inspector Javert in the 10th Anniversary production of Les Miserables at the Royal Albert Hall, London. ...
Rhys Muldoon (born October 17, in Newcastle, New South Wales) is a multi-talented Australian thespian who has been involved in television, radio and theatre. ...
John Russell Waters (born December 8, 1948) is a famous Australian film, theatre and television actor. ...
Play School's stated philosophy is to encourage a child 'to wonder, to think, to feel and to imagine'. The two presenters (always a male/female pairing) address the child directly and personally, so that every child watching the show feels that they are spending time with two people they know and can trust. From the Play School website: [1]
- Into this relationship are woven the stories, songs and activities that form the fabric of Australian children's culture. Play School is successful because it satisfies our basic human need to interact with other people and to be valued by them.
Controversy faced by the show On the 31 May 2004 a segment was shown showing what was taken by the public to be two homosexual women taking their children to an amusement park. A little girl narrated the clip, stating "My Mums are taking me and my friend Meryn to an amusement park." The clip was raised as controversial by the media, and three federal ministers expressed dislike over the screening of the clip. The ABC responded however, saying that "Play School aims to reflect the diversity of Australian children, embracing all manner of race, religions and family situations." The producers of the segment also claimed that they scripted the work with the girl being accompanied by her birth mother and her step mother (hence "two mums"), they believed most people would automatically assume the same. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining, as the last day of May. ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
Canada The Canadian show The Polka Dot Door is an adaptation of the Play School format. Polka Dot Door was a childrens television series produced and broadcast by TVOntario from 1971 until 1993. ...
New Zealand The NZ version was based on the BBC show of the same name. It started filming in Dunedin in 1975 and was hosted there for nearly 15 years. Playschool always included the Maori language in counting and singing activities.
"...a programme for New Zealand children, and the thing that we really wanted to show was that adults could work very well together and that toys could also be your best friends," says Playschool producer Lorraine Isaacs.
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Quotes - Here is a house, here is a door, windows -- one, two, three, four. Ready to knock? Turn the lock. It's Play School. --Opening voiceover of the BBC version.
- Five currant buns in a baker's shop,/ Big and round with a cherry on top./ Along came [Hamble/Jemima/Big Ted/Little Ted/Humpty] with a penny one day;/ Bought a currant bun and took it away! -- A recurrent counting song on the BBC version.
- There's a bear in there, and a chair as well. There's people with games, and stories to tell. Open wide, come inside -- it's Play School. --Opening jingle of the ABC version.
See also This is an incomplete list of TV series that are or were made and shown in the United Kingdom: it does not include foreign-made imports. ...
This is a list of Australian television series and television programs. ...
This is a list of TV shows from the English-speaking provinces of Canada. ...
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