I've always know it as playdays, but it was once called playbus I think, because parents/grandparents always used to refer to it as Playbus, but maybe thats just confusion with the intro.
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Wasn't Playbus the one where they looked through the 'square window' etc?
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Mich posted:
I've always know it as playdays, but it was once called playbus I think, because parents/grandparents always used to refer to it as Playbus, but maybe thats just confusion with the intro.
It was originally titled Playbus when it started in 1988, but they had to change the name to Playdays about a year later because the Playbus organisation, which converted old double decker buses into playgroups for young children, objected to the title.
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MikeG posted:
Wasn't Playbus the one where they looked through the 'square window' etc?
That was Play School! As I first remember it, there was the round window, square window and arched window. When it relaunched in 1983 they had four - the extra one I think was triangular but I never watched it much after that.
The SIMPSONS? Number One? Eh? It didn't even start life on a kids' show! the Muppets weren't either! They should have said that you can vote for any kids' show, PROVIDED it was at some time scheduled as specifically children's broadcasting and NOT family entertainment.
The top two rendered the whole programme redundant.
Agreed, but I'd still vote for the Simpsons every time.
Did you notice that they played really old clips though. The show has been on air since 1989 and they didn't show a clip newer than 1993! Perhaps they had to pay for them and ran out of budget!
Maid Marian And her Merry Men no.21
Knightmare no.16
Great but but but but but BUT:
They both ONLY showed clips from the first episodes.
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I'm surprised that for long-running shows, they didn't make a better job of representing how the shows developed over the years. Example: For it's final couple of series, 'Rainbow' became 'Rainbow Days', with Geoffrey Hayes axed in favour of it being a human free zone. To make up the numbers, a new puppet was introduced - a blue female rabbit named Chloe. All of this of corse totally ruined Rainbow, so no wonder it was very quickly axed.
Other shows featured in the top 100 also have format-change histories - why weren't such things mentioned (albeit only briefly)?
