Kinyoman, I am intrigued at how you still have this clip from 1973. I wonder if you or your relatives recorded it on one of the few video recorders available then (at huge expense) such as the Phillips 1500. The BBC did not start archiving video-taped programmes until the late 1970's and lots of classic shows were wiped as tapes were reused including many Top Of The Pops and Dixon of Dock Green episodes.
You've got to love the continuity announcements in the 1970s. None of the rubbish that today's children are subjected to on CBeebies or CBBC. The BBC of the 1970s treated children in a mature manner. Some may disagree, but I don't care. Children of the 1970s grew up (as a whole) as sensible, well-rounded adults (maybe with a few exceptions!!)
ah... the days of faking sickness to your mum, when you're not up for another day of school. spend the time in your pajamas, on the carpet, watching great tv.
OK...this has taken me back to my infancy!! And it's a lovely guy doing the continuity to start it off..Andy Cartledge, bless his soul...but agree, it's later than 1973.
@kirkbyla I couldn't agree more. It's a shame that people like that are so often overlooked in favour of more current TV personalities. Brian Cant was a legend; always gave it 100%. I'm remembering all the others now- Carole Chell, Chloe Ashcroft, Stuart McGoogan, Carol Leader, Sheelagh Gilbey and of course Floella Benjamin...
I 'm guessing that's your childrens morning programming? We had Captain Kangaroo here. Don't you wish we could go back to out childhood television favorites?
Jemima was the classy one of the female toys, Hamble always looked dirty as if she'd do anything for a packet of sweet cigarettes around the back of the arch window. :)
@Zed1967 Home video recorders were around, but expensive (and therefore few households had them). The Philips VCR, for example, became available in Britain in 1972, but cost only slightly less than a Morris Mini.
@Zed1967 True,i remember watching this in the mid to late 70's. By the time i stopped watching it Floella Benjiman was presenting it.Not sure what year she was doing it.
All of us oldies (hovering dangerously around forty) have great memories of kids tv. I bet the the boobah and tellytubby generation wont ever look back as fondly as we can!
I aways remembered play schoolon bbc1! I could be wrong! Bbc2 was the station for King Monkey and the Laurel and Hardy films! Those were the good old days!
@mikjon67 Playschool was aired at 11am on BBC2 and then the same episode was repeated at around 3.55pm on BBC1. Which would explain why you remember it being on BBC1. This was the morning showing. Monkey, (to give it its proper title), wasn't broadcast until 1979 and Laurel & Hardy have, most likely, been shown since BBC2 began and are still shown to this day! Or, at least, they should be! (0;}
@terawattz Same with me also!! We certainly had brilliant children's shows way back then. Nothing compares to them these days!! So many good memories then. Would love to go back in time to revisit my childhood days again!! [sigh] :)
Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Carol Chell, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, the Aussie guy (Don Spencer), Johnny Ball, etc, etc.. if I ever met these lot I would be totally starstruck.
These folk played a massive part of my childhood.. totally brilliant :)
PeterTRFC3 months ago 2
his logic is correct.for many of us in the 70s this and tuche turtle, squidly didly laughaolympics,the wombles,yogi bear,the hair bear bumch,here come the bears,battle of the planets,good ole 7 zarc 7.all good tv
Oh I so loved this when I was little! I had a teddy just like one in the show and i used to love Jemima. But that other dolly whose name I can't remember, me and mummy used to think she was based on a right skanky old cunt
Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Carol Chell, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, the Aussie guy (Don Spencer), Johnny Ball, etc, etc.. if I ever met these lot I would be totally starstruck.
These folk played a massive part of my childhood.. totally brilliant :)
Gosh what memories!!! I once recorded this programme when testing out a brand new Philips Monotone-8000 cassette-tape recorder (in 1973, I think). You could only record the sound, you had to use your memory/imagination for the rest. The story teller read a story that started "Now Mary had a most unusual pet. Can you guess what it was?" In the silence my little brother shouted out "an elephant!" only to realise a split second later, to his horror, that his voice had been recorded.
Regarding the upbringing of children I was shocked by a photo I saw recently of my son and his friend making a hand gesture with their 1st and 4th fingers...I was shocked because it was a satanic sign they had picked up from Disney..I went and checked YouTube "illuminati symbolism in childrens TV" only to find that this ype of crap is being fed to our kids on a daily basis...please take 5 mins to check this out...!!!!!!
VHS recorders came out in the late '70s and Betamax came along about the same time. Betamax was more advanced technology than VHS at the time, but more people bought VHS, so, in the 80s, VHS won the game.
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i used to watch this programme when i was 14, and wank off to it when my parents were at school. My father came home early one day, ... we ended up wanking together on the sofa. We were a very closely knit family. I ended up secretly marrying my sister, we now have 3 cloven foot children.
yes i agree, then you get morons like bonnie, writing crap like that, i' pleased, that when i was a kid, i lead the life of a kid, wonderful stuff this
Classic television from the BBC. More often than not it was the only programme on BBC-2 for the majority of the day. Looking at some old listings recently, it was closedown on BBC-2 from 11.25am until 7.30pm on quite a few occasions. Not that it bothered fans of the testcard and music!
On BBC2 afternoons the test card used to get some quite good music! When I played Hugh Hopper's Hoppertunity Box, having found it in an HMV shop a few years later, I recognised it from those afternoons I spent sniffling with cold in front of that bl**dy girl and her horror movie clown.
A record with minority appeal, OK, but hardly the pap they played on the other channels.
I loved this whenI was a nipper. Then one day I had to start going to real school and it was bugger all like this. The windows were to high to see out of for a start.
Yes, Don Spencer is now the Father-In-Law of Film actor Russell Crowe. Can't imagine Russell Crowe on Playschool somehow, every time he got angry, he'd throw a telephone at Hamble and crack her plastic head in. :-0
HOORAY...lets get rid of all the tat on kids tv and bring back the class stuff which actually EDUCATES THEM!!!! what is wrong with the world today? NO PLAYSCHOOL THAT'S WHAT!
ive just become a grandad man ive got 2 get my grace into this .its miles better than the garbage they throw out .on my way to hmv to order playschool,trumpten,camberwick green,watch with mother and spiderman and out of town with jack hargreaves just 4 me ha ha ha
That's *exactly* what I was going to ask! Where on earth did this come from?!
It *looks* like it was done on a videocassette recorder, but although there were some early (pre-VHS, pre-Beta) systems around at the time, they must have been very expensive.
Even the tapes would have been expensive, and (with respect), Play School would probably have been seen as childrens' ephemera back then, so it's surprising that this survived wiping. (Heck, the BBC wiped half their 1970s *broadcast* masters!)
Anyway, if this really is a videocassette recording from the original broadcast, it's possible that you have the only surviving copy of some or all of that.
(Bearing in mind what I said about the BBC erasing their master copies).
I remember hearing of a guy who had a video tape of monty python followed by the news read by Kenneth Kendall recorded off BBC2 in 1974. As far as recording of TV SONY made a CV2000 VTR in 1964 it must have cost a fortune!
@NotATube Yep, Philips N1500 or N1700 were around in these days and cost about the same as a small family car. This particular clip was originally a home recording and hundreds of people have rough quality copies of it as it's been copied and passed around on VHS & DVD by fans of old TV (in particular the bits from between the programmes). The original tape will look better. This wouldn't have been 1973 though, as the logos used on the slide and clock were only used from around 74/75.
Don Spencer is in fact Russell Crowe's father-in-law! Also, from Wikipedia: "Spencer was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on Australia Day, 26 January 2007 for service to children's music and television as a songwriter and performer, and through the establishment of the Australian Children's Music Foundation." I hope other people are as delighted as I am to find that out!
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i was working at the bbc in 1967 when the program was conceived. it was originally going to be called GAY SCHOOL but it was later decided that would cause too much controversy. so it was changed. to PLAY SCHOOL.
I remember when they got rid of Play School and brought in "Play Bus", or as they called it after the lawsuit, "Play Days". It felt like the world had ended... Play School was forever!
I had the Why Bird for my Christmas dinner in the mid-nineties.
i never watched this show in my life... i new whats it about... i just got into power rangers instead... geez no wonder i sucked at high school or primary school
when Brian Cant passes away ( i hope it's a long way off )
he should be made patron saint of children's telly
al3699 3 weeks ago
BBC2 on a weekday at 11 am will never, ever be the same as it was back in the 70's.. More's the pity.
JFredUK 1 month ago
This reminds me of being off sick from school (remember how great that was) drinking lucozade and putting on a fake cough.
gextvedde 1 month ago 2
@gextvedde hahahahaah lmao .....good times
vinilla 4 weeks ago
Kinyoman, I am intrigued at how you still have this clip from 1973. I wonder if you or your relatives recorded it on one of the few video recorders available then (at huge expense) such as the Phillips 1500. The BBC did not start archiving video-taped programmes until the late 1970's and lots of classic shows were wiped as tapes were reused including many Top Of The Pops and Dixon of Dock Green episodes.
6edTelevision 1 month ago
You've got to love the continuity announcements in the 1970s. None of the rubbish that today's children are subjected to on CBeebies or CBBC. The BBC of the 1970s treated children in a mature manner. Some may disagree, but I don't care. Children of the 1970s grew up (as a whole) as sensible, well-rounded adults (maybe with a few exceptions!!)
meltonmowbray2003 1 month ago
To think we all used to watch this garbage lol
lisalewis401 2 months ago
Uh oh... I'm watching this on a Saturday. Is that bad? What's going to happen to me? HELP!
Ppppinkland 2 months ago
ah... the days of faking sickness to your mum, when you're not up for another day of school. spend the time in your pajamas, on the carpet, watching great tv.
basketcase2001 3 months ago
Thumbs up if you're watching this on a Tuesday :-)
Gary190tube 3 months ago 5
Almost everything in the seventies was either pitch black dark or garish orange.
HitMeQuick 3 months ago
@HitMeQuick or brown.
Time71Team 3 months ago
OK...this has taken me back to my infancy!! And it's a lovely guy doing the continuity to start it off..Andy Cartledge, bless his soul...but agree, it's later than 1973.
rawmusic 4 months ago
Wow...it actually is Tuesday!
duncaninchina 4 months ago
brian cant should have been knighted what a massive impact he had on all us kids i hated play away but could still sing the intro now ,,,,,
kirkbyla 5 months ago
@kirkbyla I couldn't agree more. It's a shame that people like that are so often overlooked in favour of more current TV personalities. Brian Cant was a legend; always gave it 100%. I'm remembering all the others now- Carole Chell, Chloe Ashcroft, Stuart McGoogan, Carol Leader, Sheelagh Gilbey and of course Floella Benjamin...
pufferfishish 4 months ago
I 'm guessing that's your childrens morning programming? We had Captain Kangaroo here. Don't you wish we could go back to out childhood television favorites?
Sheri451 5 months ago
later than 1973. titles, time clock and presenters are wrong
autofive 5 months ago
@autofive Look, shut up! We don't care!!
borgduck 5 months ago
@borgduck
'we' ??
from your utube profile, you look distinctly alone.
autofive 5 months ago
@autofive That's YOUTUBE!
borgduck 5 months ago
Jemima was the classy one of the female toys, Hamble always looked dirty as if she'd do anything for a packet of sweet cigarettes around the back of the arch window. :)
Zed1967 5 months ago
Wow so i used to watch this at 11 oclock wounderful, I loved playschool nice memories watching this at my nans,
niceone1100 5 months ago
How was this recorded in 1973? I don't remember video recorders until mid to late 70's at the very earliest.
Zed1967 7 months ago
@Zed1967 Home video recorders were around, but expensive (and therefore few households had them). The Philips VCR, for example, became available in Britain in 1972, but cost only slightly less than a Morris Mini.
luggerblugs 5 months ago
@Zed1967 True,i remember watching this in the mid to late 70's. By the time i stopped watching it Floella Benjiman was presenting it.Not sure what year she was doing it.
chezzeeX 5 months ago
@chezzeeX I remember Floella presenting it when I was 4 or 5, so that would have been 1980.
pufferfishish 4 months ago
Sooo....what happened?!
surfmcgoogler 7 months ago
158 people like tuesday!
chain0fflowers 7 months ago
NOOOOOOOOO
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE PLAYSCHOOL EXISTED IN ANY OTHER FORMAT OTHER THAN THE ONE I KNEW FROM MY AUSTRALIAN CHILDHOOD!
Treemeadow 7 months ago
All of us oldies (hovering dangerously around forty) have great memories of kids tv. I bet the the boobah and tellytubby generation wont ever look back as fondly as we can!
dreamsfgh 8 months ago 2
I aways remembered play schoolon bbc1! I could be wrong! Bbc2 was the station for King Monkey and the Laurel and Hardy films! Those were the good old days!
mikjon67 8 months ago
@mikjon67 Playschool was aired at 11am on BBC2 and then the same episode was repeated at around 3.55pm on BBC1. Which would explain why you remember it being on BBC1. This was the morning showing. Monkey, (to give it its proper title), wasn't broadcast until 1979 and Laurel & Hardy have, most likely, been shown since BBC2 began and are still shown to this day! Or, at least, they should be! (0;}
JFredUK 1 month ago
cute
libbypink100 8 months ago
thanks for posting this, where on earth did you find it ..!!
Coleshill1 9 months ago
mr,men,bagpuss,the wombles,captain caveman,chigley,pipkins,lets pretend,jackanory,pidgeon street,secret squirrel,top cat,morph,take heart,animal magic,bod,the clangers,rainbow,the flumps,towser,ivor the engine,grange hill,ludwig,black beauty,rupert the bear,button moon,storytime,space sentinals,wacky races,hong kong phooey,trumpton,camberwic green.the memories,the list is endless
terawattz 10 months ago 2
@terawattz Same with me also!! We certainly had brilliant children's shows way back then. Nothing compares to them these days!! So many good memories then. Would love to go back in time to revisit my childhood days again!! [sigh] :)
theseus27 7 months ago
Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Carol Chell, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, the Aussie guy (Don Spencer), Johnny Ball, etc, etc.. if I ever met these lot I would be totally starstruck.
These folk played a massive part of my childhood.. totally brilliant :)
PeterTRFC3 months ago 2
his logic is correct.for many of us in the 70s this and tuche turtle, squidly didly laughaolympics,the wombles,yogi bear,the hair bear bumch,here come the bears,battle of the planets,good ole 7 zarc 7.all good tv
terawattz 10 months ago
Oh I so loved this when I was little! I had a teddy just like one in the show and i used to love Jemima. But that other dolly whose name I can't remember, me and mummy used to think she was based on a right skanky old cunt
LettersAtoZorNos029 10 months ago
Wow that brings me right back :) thanks for posting it.
MegaHolls 11 months ago
Just realised I'm old. I'm forty three you know...
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
Lets look through the broken window!
LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 1 year ago
Its not Tuesday, its saturday.
bazfanv2 1 year ago
The same Don Spencer?
cityviagranville 1 year ago
Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Carol Chell, Derek Griffiths, Fred Harris, the Aussie guy (Don Spencer), Johnny Ball, etc, etc.. if I ever met these lot I would be totally starstruck.
These folk played a massive part of my childhood.. totally brilliant :)
PeterTRFC 1 year ago 2
@PeterTRFC I couldn't agree more in fact one person said Brian Cant should be knighted for services to childrens TV! So he should he was brilliant.
Voxac100b 10 months ago
Ace
tintin20001967 1 year ago
there was a bit of tele in the morning, and even though it was playschool you'd watch it - it was tele.
robt135utube 1 year ago
i used to like don spencer. he was an aussie right?
klisher 1 year ago
No theme tune? Was that only in the Australian version, or did the theme song come in later?
NewhamMatt 1 year ago
Gosh what memories!!! I once recorded this programme when testing out a brand new Philips Monotone-8000 cassette-tape recorder (in 1973, I think). You could only record the sound, you had to use your memory/imagination for the rest. The story teller read a story that started "Now Mary had a most unusual pet. Can you guess what it was?" In the silence my little brother shouted out "an elephant!" only to realise a split second later, to his horror, that his voice had been recorded.
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titanicpiano14 1 year ago
Play school was the bomb. Magic memories.
Gollyfats 1 year ago 2
Don Spencer is not Russell Crowe's Father in Law... I have memories of Don Spencer have wet patches under his arms when he did Play School.
emmyjo720 1 year ago
@emmyjo720 hahahahahahaha. I hear you.
Gollyfats 1 year ago
a house.
with a door
1 2 3 4 x your salary ?
no way.
whats the day ?
bankruptcy day.
rightfredsdead 1 year ago 9
We were all so innocent then ahhhhh
AuntyM66 1 year ago 3
Don Spencer...was he the Aussie?
mistofoles 1 year ago
@mistofoles
Yep - he's also Russell Crowe's father in law, Russell being married to Don's daughter Danielle.
LadyMezzo 1 year ago
@LadyMezzo Eh? You shitting me?
mistofoles 1 year ago
@mistofoles
Nope - he really is Russell Crowe's father in law.
LadyMezzo 1 year ago
thank you... what memories!!!!!!!!!!
forangelok 1 year ago
love this stuff. good old days before morons who write some of the comments below
earthsunlover 1 year ago
Was jemima a crack whore?
thespoogemonster 1 year ago
it's thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bitches!!!
OpticalCow 1 year ago
No it's not today is Wednesday. Fking liers
ArgosWarrior 1 year ago
my god good old tv
MrBuckley123 1 year ago
Bloody hell. I'm swamped by a 1970s comfort duvet. Brian Cant and Don Spencer. And I don't want to fucking get out!
TheHarecat 1 year ago
omfg so gay
shanet1st 1 year ago
I saw Brian Cant at a car boot sale years ago in Chalfont Sr. Giles sellign old Dappledown Farm videos, He gave me a real dirty look for some reason.
ScrewAttackEurope 1 year ago
@ScrewAttackEurope Did you try and touch him in his special place?
mattblack77nz 1 year ago
@mattblack77nz I might have done :D
ScrewAttackEurope 1 year ago
@ScrewAttackEurope Well done....you get in there good and hard young man!
mattblack77nz 1 year ago
@mattblack77nz Tell that to my psychotherapist, I still wake up in the middle of the night screaming!
ScrewAttackEurope 1 year ago
@ScrewAttackEurope I know...I watch you every night from the street.
P.S. - Nice curtains.
mattblack77nz 1 year ago
@mattblack77nz How come you never wave back when I wave to you?
ScrewAttackEurope 1 year ago
@ScrewAttackEurope Let's just say my right hand is always busy.....
mattblack77nz 1 year ago
cool.. it really is Tuesday today!!
mcb0613 1 year ago
classic! :)
alexcrowson 1 year ago
No, it's Wednesday.
PrentonPimp 1 year ago
Aw I was just getting interested.....
shrivel1 1 year ago
That has to be Brian Cant's voice
emmyjo720 1 year ago
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sighingoftheseas 1 year ago
Cute. :)
ardalsgirl 2 years ago
I always thought of this as a Blue Peter for tots.
kev113113 2 years ago
I was 8 years old in 1973. I remember this well. I was a bit old for it at the age of 8, but my two younger sisters watched it. Life was good then.
Davewise1965 2 years ago 3
This is the version I remember when I was little. Jemima was my favourite doll and the round window was my favourite window.
sunshinemags 2 years ago
LOL.
sunshinemags 2 years ago
lol i loved the round window too however Humpty with his i cant keep still gait was classic.
seonidh 1 year ago
wow
never seen this one before
SHExxLIKESxxBARINAS 2 years ago
yuk sh1t quality
assholien 2 years ago
Oh how rude of him not to upload his HD dvd recorder version you muppet assholien !
bhcandaswp 2 years ago
It was 1970 feckin 3 - what do you expect. I don't know anyone who had a VCR, so this was top of the range sh1t my friend!
marmal320 1 year ago
That orange house has been lurking in my brain for 36 years - and here it is again! Brilliant memories!
MarkNobes 2 years ago 30
@MarkNobes And i remember when it was a black and white house
michael72401 1 year ago
@michael72401 So do I, but that was because we didn't have a colour TV, back then. (0;}
JFredUK 1 month ago
I wish it was 1973 again...life was so muche easier.
How did people manage to record this...surely there were no videos back then
pawnsacrifice1 2 years ago
Phillips did a VCR for home use in 1972, it was £600.
hankc356 2 years ago
i didn't know that VCR's were even thought of untill the mid 80's and then they were only Betamax untill they brought out VHS
steve8765 2 years ago
VHS recorders came out in the late '70s and Betamax came along about the same time. Betamax was more advanced technology than VHS at the time, but more people bought VHS, so, in the 80s, VHS won the game.
UKSazzy67 2 years ago
I agree, life was so much easier when mummy was doing everything for me :(
AliciaSkeletonKeyes 2 years ago 49
@AliciaSkeletonKeyes LOL ;D
blackflower75 1 year ago
@AliciaSkeletonKeyes
LOL! Co-sign.
PrAnG2000 1 year ago
@AliciaSkeletonKeyes
LOL
cheekyleopard 1 year ago
@AliciaSkeletonKeyes me too life was lovely and simple back in the 70s.
Voxac100b 10 months ago
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i used to watch this programme when i was 14, and wank off to it when my parents were at school. My father came home early one day, ... we ended up wanking together on the sofa. We were a very closely knit family. I ended up secretly marrying my sister, we now have 3 cloven foot children.
bonnie43uk 2 years ago
how things change in forty years, kids now watch porn stars with baseball bats up their arse at this age ,, sad sad world:(
retsevlyslegyn 2 years ago
too true
But theres still the Night in the Garden etc Balamory.
Forestamtul 2 years ago
yes i agree, then you get morons like bonnie, writing crap like that, i' pleased, that when i was a kid, i lead the life of a kid, wonderful stuff this
redredreds100 2 years ago 3
Anyone remember George from Play School?
He teaches at my school xD
<3
HalfofTear 2 years ago 2
OMG. He used to be my Mum's fav as well. LOL. I watched play school every day as a kid and when I got older I watched it when I was sick. :)
abeeby83 2 years ago
Haha xD
He's epic.
He's taught me so much about Play School
They actually film this live and if they forget their lines they improvise xD
You'd think Play School would be improvised...
HalfofTear 2 years ago
George who? Which one was he?
Tobycek 2 years ago
fucking hate chewsday!
sunkcontrol 2 years ago
Wheres the round window gone?
cliffmetalman 2 years ago
SITTING WITH OUR WARM MILK AT SCHOOL
lesterroberts1 2 years ago
It was GREAT! Until Thatcher got rid of it. ;-)
Raggamuffin1973 2 years ago 3
I remember Don Spencer but not Delia Morgan.
punditpete 2 years ago
thanks for a happy childhood
hopki65 2 years ago 2
Classic television from the BBC. More often than not it was the only programme on BBC-2 for the majority of the day. Looking at some old listings recently, it was closedown on BBC-2 from 11.25am until 7.30pm on quite a few occasions. Not that it bothered fans of the testcard and music!
wipered 2 years ago
On BBC2 afternoons the test card used to get some quite good music! When I played Hugh Hopper's Hoppertunity Box, having found it in an HMV shop a few years later, I recognised it from those afternoons I spent sniffling with cold in front of that bl**dy girl and her horror movie clown.
A record with minority appeal, OK, but hardly the pap they played on the other channels.
OriTheEep 2 years ago
Agreed ! I learnt tp play guitar jamming along with those tunes!!
flametop93 2 years ago
LOL takes me back to my make up eating days!!
biglzz 2 years ago
Whatever happened to Floella Benjamin? ( I sense a Google mission! )
kitty3309 2 years ago
Not heard this for 35 yrs and a bit and I could not stop the smile creep across my face.
benzathine 2 years ago
I love this theme tune. Got it on a tape of children's tv themes and keep playing it over and over.
I'm sure there was another version of the theme tune which had the words "Ready To Knock-Turn The Lock".
Meanmanmartin2007 2 years ago
Don Spencer? Wasn't he the Aussie presenter who looked like Paul Hogan??
mistofoles 2 years ago
I learned everything I know about elementary trigonometry from this program.
resonance2001 2 years ago
And I thought this was Protect & Survive.
borgduck 2 years ago
Brian Cant a legend from my cildhood, lol
peoplecan1965 2 years ago 2
Mine too..xx
wildenfree 2 years ago
I loved this whenI was a nipper. Then one day I had to start going to real school and it was bugger all like this. The windows were to high to see out of for a start.
webbhead92 2 years ago 2
wow ready to play and whats the day its signing on day !! good old england ! ...
Euro3urger 2 years ago 3
"A House
With a Door"
As opposed to what? A house in which the only way of getting in and out is by climbing through a window?
SickOfObamaAlready 2 years ago
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
YOU FUCKING LEGEND xD
JoelWTFJOEL 2 years ago
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voice over bloke sounds like a right cant
lazru123 2 years ago
doh..some people.
ITS BRIAN CANT
krakenwave 2 years ago
Well, I thought it was funny.
RebelVoDKa 2 years ago
erm its actually wednesday....
x1star1x 2 years ago
bugger i was 31.
cptskellern 3 years ago
theres nothing like memories thank you!
djshilling 3 years ago
Even though we never saw him, you can always know Brian Cants voice!! He's always telling the time for Trumpton!! Blimey 1973, I was 1!!
bobross95 3 years ago
I met Don Spencer a couple of years ago, and told him how much I loved watching him on Playschool in Australia in the late 60's! Thanks for sharing!
GinniGee 3 years ago
Yes, Don Spencer is now the Father-In-Law of Film actor Russell Crowe. Can't imagine Russell Crowe on Playschool somehow, every time he got angry, he'd throw a telephone at Hamble and crack her plastic head in. :-0
kabogga 3 years ago
1973...Ted Heath,the miners strike,the 3 day week,power cuts,oil crisis,etc...Play School.The 70's rocked!!!
crusher19860138 3 years ago 3
christ, i was 2 then and probably watched this on my grandpa's knee...
dabbleduck 3 years ago
Well I loved this program.
As I grew older I would say to my mates, what window shall we put through today? The square window or the round window.
Sadly not long after playschool wasn't around anymore, the again nor were my mates come to think of it.
pickleboy23 3 years ago
HOORAY...lets get rid of all the tat on kids tv and bring back the class stuff which actually EDUCATES THEM!!!! what is wrong with the world today? NO PLAYSCHOOL THAT'S WHAT!
pinkerfluffierbadger 3 years ago
you'll be pleased to know Playschool hasnt gone.. its just called Tikkabilla. :D
lewisr47 3 years ago
ive just become a grandad man ive got 2 get my grace into this .its miles better than the garbage they throw out .on my way to hmv to order playschool,trumpten,camberwick green,watch with mother and spiderman and out of town with jack hargreaves just 4 me ha ha ha
eatmypies 3 years ago
perfect it should be revived come on bbc do the right thing.
blipflop 3 years ago
top upload my friend!!!! how the fuck did you
get this? no way did you have a video in 73??
if you did it must have been the size of a ford cortina and cost £3000...really remember them clocks before a programme came on,CLASS.
uglybus7 3 years ago 2
That's *exactly* what I was going to ask! Where on earth did this come from?!
It *looks* like it was done on a videocassette recorder, but although there were some early (pre-VHS, pre-Beta) systems around at the time, they must have been very expensive.
Even the tapes would have been expensive, and (with respect), Play School would probably have been seen as childrens' ephemera back then, so it's surprising that this survived wiping. (Heck, the BBC wiped half their 1970s *broadcast* masters!)
NotATube 2 years ago
Anyway, if this really is a videocassette recording from the original broadcast, it's possible that you have the only surviving copy of some or all of that.
(Bearing in mind what I said about the BBC erasing their master copies).
NotATube 2 years ago
I remember hearing of a guy who had a video tape of monty python followed by the news read by Kenneth Kendall recorded off BBC2 in 1974. As far as recording of TV SONY made a CV2000 VTR in 1964 it must have cost a fortune!
Voxac100b 2 years ago
@NotATube Yep, Philips N1500 or N1700 were around in these days and cost about the same as a small family car. This particular clip was originally a home recording and hundreds of people have rough quality copies of it as it's been copied and passed around on VHS & DVD by fans of old TV (in particular the bits from between the programmes). The original tape will look better. This wouldn't have been 1973 though, as the logos used on the slide and clock were only used from around 74/75.
presheaven 1 year ago
I was 4 years old when this episode came out.
I woud have been sat infront of our old black and white TV watching this.
Happy days
longbow1415 3 years ago 2
We still have playschool here in Australia.
paratrooper6 3 years ago
We used to have an Australian presenter on the British version: Don Spencer.
RebelVoDKa 3 years ago
Don Spencer is in fact Russell Crowe's father-in-law! Also, from Wikipedia: "Spencer was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on Australia Day, 26 January 2007 for service to children's music and television as a songwriter and performer, and through the establishment of the Australian Children's Music Foundation." I hope other people are as delighted as I am to find that out!
JimShadyUK 3 years ago
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i was working at the bbc in 1967 when the program was conceived. it was originally going to be called GAY SCHOOL but it was later decided that would cause too much controversy. so it was changed. to PLAY SCHOOL.
ianupton 3 years ago
why am not surpirsed at that....from the BBC
worcesterwombat 3 years ago
Are you serious LOL hahhahha that is so gay luckily that it was kept to play school otherwise it would have been so gay.
Siciliana37 3 years ago
BRING IT BACK... BRING IT BACK!
EXOC3T 3 years ago 4
I thought this was Protect & Survive!
borgduck 3 years ago 2
LOLOLOL whered u get teh footage from man lol
samiijay93 3 years ago
I bet kids of today would laugh at us if they saw that
Outstep31 3 years ago
I remember when they got rid of Play School and brought in "Play Bus", or as they called it after the lawsuit, "Play Days". It felt like the world had ended... Play School was forever!
I had the Why Bird for my Christmas dinner in the mid-nineties.
vashtijoy 3 years ago
i remember that whi was there a lawsuit?
thecritic2007 3 years ago
Blimey, 1973! I wasn't even born then! "Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?"
TomRaymondUK 3 years ago
Ahh, great, i allways forget how the original tune went & the remake allways pops in my head which is crap.
p4ddythehelipilot 3 years ago
It's always bloody Tuesday! Can we have some Wednesdays please?
Dagnabbit!!!
Cromper 3 years ago
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my GAWD that intro suks no offence to thoses guys
kittykat1111111111 3 years ago
i never watched this show in my life... i new whats it about... i just got into power rangers instead... geez no wonder i sucked at high school or primary school
sikokiller12 3 years ago
err i hate to be the one to break it to you bud but playschool was way way before and long gone before power rangers ever came along
thecritic2007 3 years ago
He committed the cardinal sin of having been born too late ;-)
NotATube 2 years ago
I hated this show with a vengeance.
borgduck 3 years ago
how can you hate this programme, IT was brilliant. classic kids tv
steve02045 3 years ago 2
wow, old school
jazeeboob 3 years ago
If this was on TV now,the house would have broken windows and be boarded up!! LOL.
"Whats the day?"
"Its Tuesday"
"Ah signing on day!"
With Big chav and Little chav,Hamble would have three kids at 16 and Humpty would be stabbed in a racially motivated attack.
MavisRileyJunior 3 years ago 7