Playdays whybird stop

Sophie Aldred Storyteller as Storyteller. Pam Ayres Storyteller as Storyteller. Karl Woolley Karl as Karl. Ellie Darvill Whybird as Whybird. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Although ended in , Playdays was repeated regularly until August User reviews 3 Review.

Top review. This became staple viewing for me. I'm of the age when I grew out of it while it was still on, having been watching since it was called play-school. It finished and it left a gaping hole in children's TV. This was to children what Match Of the Day is to sports fans. I hardly ever missed an episode and became such a fanatic that I could practically remember every stop for example Monday - The Why Stop Tuesday - The Patch stop formerly the playground stop Wednesday - The Roundabout stop Thursday - I forget what this one was Friday - The Poppy Stop formerly the tent stop This is as of when it finished.

There were several other stops, some enjoyable, some not. Whether I've grown-up or not, this programme has taught me more than any other educational programme e.

Seaseme Street and it will be sadly missed. Details Edit. Release date October 17, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Playdays known as Playbus until 25 December was a children's television program from the United Kingdom. The show was the successor of Play School , and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.

The creator Cynthia Felgate had been executive producer of Playschool. In , the BBC insisted that the independent production company which made Playbus Felgate Productions change the programme's name, after they had received a complaint from the National Playbus Association.

They were also accompanied by Mr Jolly Robin Fritz, later Clive Duncan and then Andy Hockley , who would usually end each programme with a song usually a nursery rhyme. The show would begin with an animated title sequence of the Playbus driving along to the theme tune until it reached the bus stop, where characters on the bus were Why, Peggy, Poppy, Dot, Humphry, Lizzie, Wobble and Mr.

Jolly didn't appear on the bus until and Poppy didn't appear on the bus until c. The bus stopped at a different place each day. It was effectively several different TV series under one single branding. Monday — The Why Bird Stop. Why Bird lived at the Lost Property Office, where things that were left on the Playbus were filed until someone claimed them. She interacted with the human bus driver- there were several throughout the series.

She had a special computer called the Why-Tech, which had a variety of uses, it could provide music for songs, pictures for stories, instructions for making something in keeping with the programme's theme, or to help sing a song e.

It also showed videos, usually to show how everyday things were made - socks, toothbrushes etc. In a later series, the office installed a telephone, where people, usually Peggy or Poppy, could phone in asking for particular things, examples include information about spiders and a night time picture to help someone sleep during the day.

Tuesday — The Playground Stop. A variety of different things involved. The programme always opened with the presenter several, including Dave Benson Philips , saying, "Lizzie The show featured a group of children doing activities, such as pretending to be cooks and making paper meals. Dave was accompanied by a glove puppet named Chester. The programme always featured a rhyme accompanied by Makaton sign language and a marionette named Lizzie Dreams occasionally accompanied by another marionette named Nick.

There was also a story, often featuring Max and his magical chest of dressing-up dreams. Wednesday — The Dot Stop — replaced with The Roundabout Stop —end - the non-speaking Dot played by Rebecca Higgins, had fun with music or numbers and counting.

Sometimes, a puppet called Dash would appear and squirm its way through holes in the set. It had a song: "Not number one, not number two, not number three or four, not number five, not number six, only one Dash can do tricks!

Later replaced by the Roundabout Stop. Presented by Mr. The show consisted of Rosie preparing a song for Mr. Jolly, a group of children and his friends to guess for the show, with clues and hints along the span of the show such as arts and crafts activities or Mr.

Jolly performing a mime in the Story Cupboard. The show also contained regular visitors and activities such as Bitsy Bob Michele Durler , who played music and made things, and the puppets Morris Cog and Milly Sprocket Nick Mercer and Michele Durler , who presented a segment called "Morris and Milly's Numerical Melodies", where they sang a song glorifying a particular number.

Charlie often sang songs for them as well.