Playdays
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Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) was a British preschool television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC. The show was the successor to Play School and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.
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Playdays | |
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Also known as | Playbus |
Genre | Children’s television series |
Created by | Cynthia Felgate |
Developed by | Felgate Productions |
Written by | Simon Davies |
Directed by | Clare Bradley Brian Jameson Iain Lauchlan Will Brenton Helen Sheppard Stephen Cannon Adrian Hedley Robin Carr Leslie Pitt Trevor Hill Mark Pickett Jamie Langton Michelle Jones |
Presented by | Brian Jameson Simon Davies Zoe Ball Vanessa Amberleigh Nick Baker Elizabeth Fost Floella Benjamin Colin Kerrigan Dave Benson Phillips Liz Kitchen Dyanne White Stephen Cannon Chris Jarvis Andrew Lynford Stuart Bradley Liz Watts Will Brenton Sue Monroe Sarah Davidson Robin Fritz Clive Duncan Andy Hockley Nick Mercer Michele Durler Sonali Shah Teresa Gallagher Peter Quilter Neil Bett Paul Hawkyard Royce Hounsell Trish Cooke Karl Woolley Alex Lovell |
Theme music composer | Steve Brown |
Composers | Jonathan Cohen Kim Goody Liz Kitchen Graham Pike Alex Matthias Andrew Dodge |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 9 |
No. of episodes | 1174 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Cynthia Felgate Andrew Thomas |
Producers | Clare Bradley Penny Lloyd Barbara Roddam Anne Reay Michael Cole Ann Gobey Kate Marlow Will Brenton |
Production location | Capital Group Studios |
Production company | Felgate Productions |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One and BBC Two (Children's BBC) |
Release | 17 October 1988 (1988-10-17) – 28 March 1997 (1997-03-28) |
Related | |
Play School |
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The show's name was changed after the BBC received a complaint from the National Playbus Association.
In 2002, reruns were moved to the new CBeebies channel until August 2004.