The playschool toys

Ann22 · 13-10-2009 7:34pm #1

Without looking it up, how many of the Playschool toys can you remember? I can remember all five of them. One was replaced in the later years but I was past it by that time:)........We used to try and guess which window you'd go through at the start:) Round, square or arched.

gipi · 13-10-2009 10:11pm

There was a "ted" (there was always a ted!), and Jemima was the rag doll with the long hair, wasn't she? There was another doll with curly hair (I think) and after that I'm reaching for the search button!!

I do remember the windows though!

RoadKillTs · 14-10-2009 8:25am

I can't remember any

damonjewel · 14-10-2009 9:20am

there were 5, big ted, little ted, humpty, jemimah, and hamble

Ann22 · 14-10-2009 6:39pm

damonjewel wrote: »

there were 5, big ted, little ted, humpty, jemimah, and hamble

Yeah:)...Hamble was the ugly one. I remember trying to do my homework and sneak peeps at the tv at the same time. After 'Playschool' was 'Jackanory'-which I didn't like. I remember 'Stig of the Dump' going on for ages...then the weekday evening cartoons like Hanna Barbera's 'Winsome Witch', 'Touché Turtle' and 'Pixie and Dixie'.

gonker · 14-10-2009 7:29pm

Now this is something I never knew

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml

The Windows were the crowning glory of the programme, posing the question of which window it would be day after day. If you never worked it out, the theme of the programme decided which window it would be. If it was balloons or wheels, a trip through the round window was in store. If boxes or houses, the square window. Only arched things like fountains and er...arches gave the cue for the arched window, leading to it appearing least of all.

stovelid · 15-10-2009 11:44am

I could only remember Big Ted, Little Ted and Humpty. And I remembered a rag-doll, not the name though.

One of my early memories was watching Play School and the toys were having an obstacle race but Humpty couldn't fit through the box and had to "jump" over.

What a cheat.

Ann22 · 15-10-2009 4:55pm

gonker wrote: »

Now this is something I never knew

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml

I had it in my head that that bit was at the beginning but now that I think about it it sounds familiar that it was sometime during the programme. Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin are the only presenters I can remember. He was also in 'Playaway'. I've memories of watching that on a Saturday evening in my nan's eating Jaffa cakes for the first time.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-10-2009 9:52pm

and the cockatoo

The playschool toys

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