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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 BBC2 after a power cut halted the opening night programming. Play School originally appeared on weekdays at 11am on BBC2 and later acquired a mid-afternoon BBC1 repeat. It was superseded in October 1988 by Playbus. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ...
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on 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 and Europes first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ...
BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Some 2 inch Quadruplex videotape master copies of Playschool episodes were irretrievably junked by Adam Lee of the BBC archives in 1993 on the assumption that they were 'no use' and that examples of some other episodes were sufficient. 2 inch Quadruplex (also called 2″ Quad, or just quad, for short) was the first practical and commercially successful videotape format. ...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
For alternate uses see: Archive (disambiguation). ...
Presenters
Presenters throughout the 24-year run included Brian Cant, Carol Chell, Sarah Long, Chloe Ashcroft, Derek Griffiths, Eric Thompson, Floella Benjamin, Don Spencer, Fred Harris, Lionel Morton, Miranda Connell, Carmen Munroe, Johnny Ball, Carol Leader, Simon Davies, Julie Stevens, Stuart McGugan, Toni Arthur and Stuart Bradley. Brian Cant (Born 12 July 1933 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England) is an actor,[[television presenter] and writer. ...
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 OBE (born September 23, 1949) is known to a generation of Britons as a presenter of popular childrens programmes such as Play School and Playaway. ...
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. ...
Fred Harris is a former British comedian and childrens television presenter. ...
Carmen Munroe is a British actress, born in Berbice, Guyana. ...
Johnny Ball circa 1998 - Birmingham Johnny Ball (born May 23, 1938 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a British television personality. ...
Julie Stevens, born 20 December 1936 in Prestwich, England is a British actress. ...
Stuart McGugan is a Scottish actor, born 2 March 1944, in Stirling, Scotland. ...
In many cases five programmes would be produced in the space of two days, with one day of rehearsal and one day of recording.
Toys The presenters were accompanied by a supporting cast of cuddly toys and dolls. The five regulars included: - Big Ted and Little Ted, teddy bears.
- Humpty Dumpty, a soft toy version of the nursery rhyme egg, usually referred to as just 'Humpty'. A commonly held belief that he sported a monocle is incorrect.
- Jemima, a ragdoll with long red and white striped legs.
- Hamble, a rather dirty and ordinary plastic doll. It was one of the five original dolls, but was replaced by Poppy.
- Poppy, a black doll who replaced Hamble in the later years of the series in response to changing attitudes in society (the Hamble doll was also getting rather fragile at this point.)
A rocking horse named Dapple was also seen in some episodes, when a particular song or item suggested it. The original Teddy bear (circa 1903). ...
Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall, not yet having fallen. ...
A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ...
The first cover of The New Yorker, 1925: a Regency dandy quizzes a butterfly A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct the vision in only one eye. ...
An example of a rocking horse A rocking horse is a childs toy, shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair. ...
Pets The pets were cared for by Wendy Duggan. Subfamily Microglossinae Calyptorhynchinae Cacatuinae A cockatoo is any of the 21 bird species belonging to the family Cacatuidae. ...
Trinomial name Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) For the baked snack crackers, please see Goldfish (snack). ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Feral mouse A mouse (Plural mice) is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents. ...
Species Cavia porcellus Cavia aperea Cavia tschudii Cavia guianae Cavia anolaimae Cavia nana Cavia fulgida Cavia magna Guinea pigs (also called cavies) are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. ...
Contents of the show 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. Very often the film would be of a factory producing something such as chocolate biscuits, or of a domestic industry such as refuse collection. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A factory worker in 1940s Fort Worth, Texas. ...
Both the clock and the three window option lives on in the children's programme Tikkabilla, which borrows much from Play School, while a similar choice of portal into a film clip was provided by the abdomen-mounted video displays in the children's show "Teletubbies". Tikkabilla is a UK childrens television programme, shown on BBC2 and on the Cbeebies channel. ...
Teletubbies is a BBC childrens television series, particularly aimed at babies and preschool toddlers, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. ...
There would also be songs and stories.
From 1971 to 1984, Play School also had a sister programme, called Playaway. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Playaway was a sister programme to Play School in the UK, aimed at slightly older children. ...
References - 25 Minutes Peace - Celebrating Play School (BBC TV programme, 1979)
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