• Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) is a British preschool television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC. The show was...
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  • educational programme Corners as himself, was a presenter and actor on Playdays for a number of years and narrated the second series of Our Planet shown...
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  • Merry Men. She played Betty the Tea Lady on the BBC children's programme Playdays. She also played Marge Stoneway, mother of Malcolm, in TV Series Watching...
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  • Play School and later show Playdays. Tikkabilla presenter Simon Davies also presented Play School in its later years and Playdays in its early years and Justin...
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  • and Alison Canning in Casualty. She presented the Children's BBC show Playdays, and has provided the voices for other children's series including The...
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    Factory for GMTV, working with Dave Benson Phillips (he had earlier done Playdays on the stage after its cancellation, portraying the character Mr. Jolly)...
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  • hosting CBeebies, and playing Poppy in Playdays. Monroe presented, voiced and puppeteered Poppy the Cat in Playdays from 1990 to 1997. In February 2002,...
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    One of the puppets/non-human presenters in the TV show Playbus (later Playdays) was a roly-poly clown called Wobble. Characters from Comedy Central's...
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  • Fingermouse, and Playdays, meeting Brenton, a director, writer and also presenter, during the latter. Together they started producing two of the Playdays strands...
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    cancellation in 1988, when it was replaced by Playbus, which soon became Playdays. Play School originally appeared on weekdays at 11 am on BBC2 and received...
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  • (2002–2005) Pablo the Little Red Fox (2002–2012) The Poddington Peas (2002) Playdays (2002–2004) Spider! (2002–2004) Spot's Musical Adventures (2002–2006) Storytime...
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  • contract; however, it was recommissioned as Playbus (later renamed to Playdays), which ran for nine years. In 1991, he was given his own show, Get Your...
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    designed for beginners or riders at a local level, are sometimes called playdays.: 163  In parts of the western United States, this type of competition...
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  • actress who played one of five Dots in the children's TV show Playbus (later Playdays) Eithne Ní Uallacháin (1957–1999), Irish singer and musician Eithne Walls...
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  • has appeared on many other TV shows including Short Change, Exclusive, Playdays and Soap Fever. Jarvis was one of the original lineup of CBeebies presenters...
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  • previously used Makaton with poems and rhymes in the Children's BBC show Playdays. The aim was for it to be enjoyed by children with developmental disabilities...
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  • 1994 by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, who at the time, were part of the Playdays production team. The series was produced through their studio Tell-Tale...
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    world. She is also known as the puppeteer and voice behind Why Bird from Playdays. His father, Nigel, played the Hammond organ for artists including Edwin...
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  • scriptwriter and children's author. She was a presenter on the children's series Playdays. She also wrote under the pseudonym Roselia John Baptiste. Cooke was born...
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  • version of this song sung by Elizabeth Watts was used in an episode of Playdays. Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Bubblegum is the Naked Truth: The Monkees"...
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  • television programmes such as Play School and for creating Playbus (later Playdays) for the BBC with her own production company, Felgate Productions. She...
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  • January 1988 29 August 1991 Play School Two One 21 April 1964 11 March 1988 Playdays One Two 17 October 1988 28 March 1997 A Poet in New York Two 2014 The Polar...
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  • from the 1960s to the 1990s, including Play School, Playbus (latterly Playdays), Play Away, Sesame Street, Rentaghost and Jackanory. He appeared as a...
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    Buckley episode: "Laurie" 1980 The Gentle Touch Gloria episode: Shock 1980s Playdays Presenter 1980s Fast Forward Presenter 1981 Maybury Kayreen episode: "Hugo...
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    began her television career as a presenter on the pre-school programme Playdays. She became a runner at Granada Television and researcher for Cool Cube...
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  • Planet Earth (BBC, 2006) Planet Sheen Play Away (British children's TV) Playdays Playhouse 90 Playing It Straight PlayMania Play School (Australian) Play...
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    style of the BBC's daily preschool programmes (such as Teletubbies and Playdays), such as Dream Street, Maisy and Mopatop's Shop. Steve Ryde became producer...
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  • referred to himself as a puppeteer. The BBC children's show Playbus (later Playdays) used many puppets during their commission, notably a singing and dancing...
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  • (2011–2012) Plasmo (1997–1999) Playbox (1996–2000) Playbus (1996–1999) Playdays (1996–1999) The Pondles (1993–1995) PopPixie (2014) Poppy Cat (2011) Postman...
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  • on the CBBC programming block. It filled a time slot previously held by Playdays. This schedule change initially received backlash from parents, but the...
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