Play School (Australian TV series)

Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the educational department[2] of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), based on the original British version created by Joy Whitby, with many of the presenters former school teachers, whilst others being a mix of well known stage and screen actors and musicians.[2] It is the longest-running children's show in Australia and the second-longest-running children's show worldwide after British series Blue Peter.[3]

Play School
Logo since 2011
GenreChildren's television
Created byJoy Whitby
Written byHenrietta Clark
Presented bySee Presenters
Theme music composerRichard Connolly (lyrics by Rosemary Milne)
Opening theme"There's a Bear in There"
Ending theme"There's a Bear in There" (instrumental)
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons49
No. of episodes4,516 (approx.)[1]
Production
Executive producersClaire Henderson
Executive Producer/Producer Henrietta Clark (1968-1984, 1990-1999)[2]
John Fox
Virginia Lumsden
Jan Stradling
Allan Kendall
ProducersAllan Kendall
Henrietta Clark
Ros Lawson
John Fox
Tracey Ellison
Wendy Gray
Sophie Emtage
Sarah Dabro
Bryson Hall
Natalie Martin
Production locationAustralian Broadcasting Corporation Studios
Running time25–30 minutes
Production companyAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (1966–present)
Release
Original networkABC-TV
(Mornings: 18 July 1966 – 29 April 2011)
(Afternoons: 1967 – 31 January 2014)

ABC2
(Mornings: 2005–2011)
(Afternoons: 2005–2011)

ABC Kids
(Early Mornings: 5 May 2014 – 29 June 2018)
(Mornings: 2 May 2011 – present)
(Afternoons: 2 May 2011 – present)
Original release18 July 1966 (1966-07-18) 
present

An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the program at least once a week.[4] It is screened three times each weekday on ABC Kids, at 9 am, 11:30 am and 3:30 pm (from 7 July 2014) and twice daily each weekend at 9 am and 3:30 pm.

Play School was admitted to the Logies' Hall of Fame in 2006,[2] the program's 40th anniversary year. It is one of only five Australian television programs to be inducted.

History

Long-time host Don Spencer

Play School premiered on 18 July 1966, with the first episode and was based on the British program of the same name. (The British version started in 1964 and ended in 1988; the show's format was then sold to Australia.) The first episode began transmitting that day, as the program was originally transmitted live. It has been produced continuously from this time. It has also launched the careers of several Australian actors and television presenters. It was admitted to the Logies' Hall of Fame on its 40th anniversary in 2006, in recognition of the strong influence the show has had on at least three generations of Australian children.

Play School was the third show to enter the Logies' Hall of Fame in its own right, after Four Corners (1992) and Neighbours (2005). It was also the first children's show inducted into the hall of fame.[5]

During the 2006 Logie Awards, a package showing memorable scenes from the show throughout its history was shown, before notable presenters (from past and present) came onto the stage with some of the favourite toys from the show. After these presenters accepted the award, the audience then joined them for a stirring rendition of the Play School theme.

In 1992, a through-the-windows segment featured an early performance by the Australian children's musical group the Wiggles performing the songs "Get Ready to Wiggle" and "Rock-a-Bye Your Bear" at a day care centre.[6]

On Monday 4 July 2011, Play School updated its opening titles using a combination of stop motion and computer animation with a new arrangement of the theme song sung by presenters Jay Laga'aia and Justine Clarke.[7]

50th anniversary

In 2016, Play School celebrated 50 years on the air and had a month of celebrations.[8]

To mark its 50th anniversary, from 4 July the program presented a series of cover songs called Play School Celebrity Covers.[9]

List of covers

Date Time Celebrity Title
4 July 8 am Benita Collings & Don Spencer "Teddy Bears' Picnic"
5 pm Missy Higgins "Three Little Fishies"
5 July 8 am Carrie Bickmore Family Forest
5 pm Guy Sebastian "Singing in the Rain"
6 July 8 am Dan Sultan "The Wheels on the Bus"
5 pm Bernard Fanning "Morningtown Ride"
7 July 8 am Delta Goodrem "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
"Moon, Moon"
5 pm Emma Watkins "There's a Bear in There"
8 July 8 am John Hamblin "I'm a Little Teapot"
5 pm Kurt Fearnley & Rachael Coopes "Going on a Bear Hunt"
9 July 8 am Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales "Singing in the Kitchen"
5 pm Kate Ceberano & daughter Gypsy "I Like Peace, I Like Quiet"
10 July 8 am Costa Georgiadis "Worm at the Bottom of My Garden"
"Wiggly Woo"
5 pm Caitlin Cooper, Ellie Carpenter and Michelle Heyman "If You're Happy and You Know It"
11 July 8 am Dami Im "Over the Rainbow"
5 pm Adam Goodes "Counting Aussie Animals in My Backyard"
12 July 8 am You Am I "One Potato, Two Potato"
5 pm Katie Noonan "I Can Sing a Rainbow"
13 July 8 am Tim Minchin "The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek"
5 pm Benita Collings & Don Spencer "Little Peter Rabbit"
14 July 8 am Magda Szubanski "Old Mother Hubbard"
5 pm Tim Omaji "Rhythm"
15 July 8 am Molly Meldrum & Charlie Pickering "Nursery Rhyme News"
5 pm Josh Thomas "On the Ning Nang Nong"
16 July 8 am Lee Lin Chin & Takaya Honda "The Emperor's New Clothes"
5 pm Architecture in Helsinki "Big Bass Drum"
17 July 8 am Jeremy Fernandez "Five Cheeky Monkeys"
5 pm Kate Miller-Heidke "The Owl and the Pussycat"
18 July 8 am The Umbilical Brothers "Fairytale Mash-up"
5 pm John Hamblin "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
19 July 8 am Hamish & Andy "There's a Hole in My Bucket"

On 18 July at 6:30 pm, ABC also broadcast a special 50th anniversary Play School celebrity covers special that featured Hamish & Andy singing "There's a Hole in My Bucket"; John Hamblin, "I'm a Little Teapot"; Dan Sultan, "The Wheels on the Bus"; Molly Meldrum and Charlie Pickering, "Nursery Rhyme News"; Delta Goodrem, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" & "Moon Moon"; Benita Collings & Don Spencer, "Teddy Bears Picnic"; Josh Thomas, "Ning Nang Nong"; Annabell Crabb and Leigh Sales, "Singing in the Kitchen"; Guy Sebastian, "Singing in the Rain"; Magda Szubanski, "Old Mother Hubbard"; and You Am I, "One Potato, Two Potato". In 2020, all of the existing Celebrity Covers episodes were rebranded as part of a new spin-off series Play School Show Time, which features new celebrities singing covers of songs from the series.

On 8 July 2019, Aboriginal presenters Luke Carroll, Miranda Tapsell and Hunter Page-Lochard hosted a special episode featuring an Acknowledgement of Country celebrating Australia's first people, sharing knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and highlighting the importance of caring for Country together. A new doll, "Kiya", was introduced to the program.[10] Matthew Doyle played a digeridoo.[11]

Spin offs

There have also been various spin-offs from Play School which have been played on ABC Kids, typically much shorter in duration. These include Little Ted's Big Adventure, Jemima's Big Adventure, Big Ted's Big Adventure, Humpty's Big Adventure, Maurice's Big Adventure, Joey's Big Adventure, Play School Story Time, Play School Art Time, Play School Nursery Rhyme News Time, Play School Art Crew, Play School Song Time, Play School Science Time, Play School Show Time and Play School Story Time: Languages.

Format

The format of the show is activities, songs and games with either host passing back to each other at the end of their segment, and frequently joining each other in activities. Each day the presenters look at the calendar to find out which day of the week it is, read a story, and look through the windows. From 1976 to 2000, they had a clock shaped like a rocket, and from 1966 to 2000, a clock shaped like a flower. Until 2000. The rocket clock was a popular addition to Play School in 1976 with its distinctive space and band music and the lights under the clock with colourful stars covered flashing and rotation to see what's behind the clock and reveal the diorama of the day. The coloured timbered Flower Clock appeared in 1975 with its two flower shapes and the pot under the clock going round and round. It was more vibrant than the original Perspex model and it was introduced along with the other changes to the Play School set to make most of the colour television which arrived in Australia the previous year. The windows looked almost exactly like their British counterparts with a few slight differences. They changed the background behind the windows from black to white at the end of 1967 and they then changed it to light blue in 1985. In 1987 Play School had a mild makeover for its 21st anniversary on air; there was a mild cosmetic revamp to the set, with a new set of opening and closing titles with a new version of the theme song sung by presenters, Philip Quast and Jennifer Ludlam. The windows also changed to look like to ones used on the British version of the show, but this change was not well received and the windows reverted to their old style by 1988, which remained until the major 2000 revamp.

Flower clock

In 1992 there was a set revamp with new shelving and coloured tree shapes in the background; this change was done about midway through the 1992 production season, with earlier 1992 episodes retaining the older 1980s set.

Every week there is a common theme running through the program that the actors reflect upon during the episode; themes include Dinosaurs, Opposites, Zoo Animals, Food, Clothes, Games, Art, Hair, Hats, Shapes, Road Safety and vehicles. Each theme (or block of five episodes) were repeated twice a year on average for a period of six to seven years, before it was recycled and reused in new episodes. As funding was limited, only 45 new episodes were made each year, which means that nine weekly blocks shown each year were new episodes, the rest repeats.

In 2000, the show had a considerable revamp, with the rocket and flower clocks and the three windows put in storage[lower-alpha 1] in favour of a newer-style Play School. The main clock was now simply called the Play School Clock, which was controlled by one of the presenters standing at the top of the clock and turning a winding device, which caused the clue to the story on the trolley to slide down a slippery dip from 2000 to 2003, some episodes include the toys inside the trolley along with a book. Then came the Hickory Dickory Clock which made its debut in 2001 featured clockwork resembling the "Hickory Dickory" nursery rhyme with a cat and the mouse running around the clock and then the mouse re-appearances as the little red doors under the clock opens. The Train Clock made its debut appearance in 2005 which resembles a train station with a clock above it and the Trains comes out of the tunnel and pulls up at the station with a clue to the story on the back of the train. In 2017, the Rocket Clock made a comeback, featuring sliding doors with a clue to the story. The windows were also heavily changed. They were now built into a large rotating prop which was built underneath the clock (shown one themed week “Messy”) and 'controlled' by one of the presenters pulling a lever back and forwards. The windows (now including a diamond window) would spin around and would slowly be eliminated as the window they would look through until they got to the fourth window and the camera would slowly zoom in and fade out into the fill. The order in which they appear is Square~Diamond~Round~Arched. That was soon replaced by windows with animation where Jemima stands next to the round window, Little Ted stands next to the square window, Big Ted stands next to the diamond window and Humpty stands next to the arched window and the window chosen goes through to pre-recorded footage. That was replaced by CGI craft-like animation where each window shakes with assorted theme tunes for the windows.

Music

Pianists

The program has historically had a musical director, who served as a pianist who played live music to accompany the presenters on each episode. Occasionally the pianist would make an on-camera appearance, one of the more well known being Warren Carr who served as musical director for over 20 years.

The pianists who have worked on Play School are:

  • Bill Antman (1966–1972)
  • Judy Bailey (1970s–1990)
  • Penny Biggins (1991–1994)
  • Warren Carr (1972–1993)
  • Peter J Casey (1996–2004)
  • Ron Creager (1998)
  • Peter Dasent (2000–present)
  • Rob Eastwood (2000) – after revamp
  • Max Lambert (1991–1999, 2004)
  • Paul McDermott (1991–1994)
  • Brian Castles Onion (2003–2009)
  • Lindsay Partridge (1994)
  • Elliott Wilshier (1994–1999)
  • Franky Valentyn (2000s)
  • Stuart Hunter (2014–present)

Theme song

The Play School theme song, "There's a Bear in There", was composed by Australian composer Richard Connolly, with lyrics by Rosemary Milne.

"There's a bear in there,
and a chair as well.
There are people with games,
and stories to tell.
Open wide, come inside;
it's Play School."

In 2016, the song was remixed by Andre Butterworth aka Copycatt as the winner of the Triple J Play School remix competition which, along with two other remixes by KLP and Jondrette Den respectively, appeared on the Play School album Famous Friends: Celebrating 50 Years of Play School.[15]

In 2017, "There's a Bear in There" was inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry.[16]

Albums

  • Hey Diddle Diddle (1976)
  • Hickory Dickory (1978)
  • Humpty Dumpty (1981)
  • Wiggerly Woo (1984)
  • There's a Bear in There (1987)
  • ...It's Play School (1991)
  • The Best of Play School (1993)
  • Oomba Baroomba (1994)
  • Play School Favourites (1996)
  • In The Car (1997)
  • Hullabaloo (1999)
  • Favourite Play School Nursery Rhymes (2002)
  • Hip Hip Hooray (2002)
  • Sing-a-Long Songs (2004)
  • Let's Play Together (2011)
  • Come and Play 45th Anniversary (2011)
  • Big Ted, Prince of Bears (2014)
  • Favourite Things Songs and Nursery Rhymes from Play School (2014)
  • Play School: Jemima's Big Adventure (2015)
  • Once Upon a Time (2015)
  • Famous Friends: Celebrating 50 Years of Play School (2016)
  • Play School: 50 Best Songs (2016)
  • Very Jazzy Street Party (2022)

Awards and nominations

AACTA Awards

Year Nominated artist and works Award Result Lost to
2016 Play School Best Children's Television Series Nominated Beat Bugs

AIR Awards

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
2023 Very Jazzy Street Party Best Independent Children's Album or EP Nominated [17][18]

TV Week Logie Awards

Year Nominated works Award Result Lost to
1990 Play School Most Popular Children's Program Nominated Wombat
1992 Nominated Agro's Cartoon Connection
1993 Nominated
1996 Nominated
1998 Most Outstanding Achievement in Children's Television Won
2000 Most Outstanding Children's Program Nominated Hi-5
2004 Most Outstanding Children's Preschool Program Nominated
2006 Hall of Fame Inducted
2014 Most Outstanding Children's Program Nominated Nowhere Boys

ARIA Music Awards

Year Nominated works Award Result
1995 Oomba Baroomba Best Children's Album Nominated
1997 In the Car Won
2000 Hullabaloo Nominated
2003 Hip Hip Hooray Nominated
2011 Let's Play Together Nominated
2015 Favourite Things – Songs and Nursery Rhymes from Play School Nominated
2016 Famous Friends: Celebrating 50 Years of Play School Nominated
2023 Very Jazzy Street Party Pending

AIMIA Awards

Year Nominated artist and works Award Result Lost to
2014 ABC4Kids Play School Play Time Best of Tablet – Entertainment[19] Won

Toys

  • Big Ted (teddy bear) (1966–present)
  • Little Ted (teddy bear) (1966–present)
  • Hamble (plastic doll) (1966–1993)
  • Jemima (rag doll) (1966–present)
  • Humpty (white egg-shaped toy with eyes, nose and mouth, which resembles Humpty Dumpty) (1966–present)
  • Slush (toy pig) (1970s–present)
  • Maurice (teddy bear) (1987–present)
  • Meeka (plastic doll of possibly mixed Asian descent) (1993–present)
  • Dan (plastic doll of Australian Aboriginal descent) (2010s)
  • Jim (plastic doll of Australian Aboriginal descent) (1985–2000s)
  • Scrap (toy dog) (70s or 80s–present)
  • Diddle (toy cat) (1966–present)
  • Fergus (toy frog) (1994–present)
  • Sam the Lamb (toy lamb) (1980s or '90s–present)
  • Banana (banana-shaped toy wearing pyjamas, see also Bananas in Pyjamas) (1976–2010)
  • Daisy (toy cow) ('80s or '90s–present)
  • Henny Penny (toy hen) ('80s or '90s–present)
  • Goosy Lucy (toy goose) ('80s or '90s)
  • Kim (plastic doll and Lisa's twin brother which both of them are of Korean descent) ('80s or '90s–present)
  • Lisa (plastic doll and Kim's twin sister which both of them are of Korean descent) (80s or '90s–present)
  • Darcy (toy donkey) ('90s or 2000s–present)
  • Henry and Henrietta (toy mice)
  • Troy And Tony (twin teddy bears) ('90s or 2000s)
  • Owl (toy owl) ('90s to 2000s–present)
  • Tippy (toy duck) (2011–present)
  • Mukundan Jr (toy lion) (2000s or 2010s)
  • Fido (toy dog) (2000s to 2010s)
  • Joey (toy kangaroo) Designed by award-winning children's book illustrator Bruce Whatley and introduced in the 50th anniversary edition 'Come to the Party' tx 18 July 2016 by presenter Miranda Tapsell.[20]
  • Kiya (doll of Australian Aboriginal descent) in an Acknowledgement of Country special for NAIDOC week 2019[21][22]

Teachings

From the inception of the program, the producers of Play School have made efforts to promote equality, playful education, and a love of learning in its audience. Working on Play School has come to be considered an unusually demanding and important job for some actors, because they feel they are becoming part of a generation of children's lives and providing a foundation for learning things that will last for life.

Play School's stated philosophy is to encourage a child "to wonder, to think, to feel and to imagine". The duo (sometimes a trio when joined by hearing impaired actress Sofya Gollan) of presenters (now almost always a male-female pairing, but sometimes two females or two males) address the child directly and personally, so that every child watching the show feels that they are spending time with two people they know and can trust. Into this relationship are woven the stories, songs and activities that form the fabric of Australian children's culture.

Controversies

"Two mums"

On 31 May 2004, during a "through the windows" segment narrated by Brenna Harding,[23] the sentence "My Mums are taking me and my friend Merryn to an amusement park." The clip was raised as controversial by sections of the media, and three federal ministers expressed dislike over the screening of the clip. The ABC responded, however, by saying that "Play School aims to reflect the diversity of Australian children, embracing all manner of race, religions and family situations." The producers of the segment also said the segment showed the girl being accompanied by her birth mother and her step mother (hence "two mums") and they believed most people would automatically assume the same. What was shown was taken by the public to be two lesbians taking their child and her friend to an amusement park.

Constructing a "bong"

A 2013 segment showed Alex Papps constructing some kind of contraption which involved a straw inserted through the side of a plastic bottle, which was then filled with hot water, accidentally resembling a bong. This controversy arose again in 2015, when the segment was replayed.[24]

"Grooming" accusation

In October 2022, Courtney Act appeared on an episode of spin-off Play School Story Time, where she read The Spectacular Suit by Kat Patrick.[25] Her appearance generated considerable media attention when Senator Alex Antic took issue with the ABC inviting a drag queen to read a book to children about a girl who favoured wearing pants instead of a dress, which he described in a Senate Estimates hearing as "grooming".[26] Questioning ABC managing director David Anderson, Antic asked why the ABC was "grooming Australian children with this sort of adult content" and asking Anderson whether such content was contributing to a "gender dysphoria problem".[26] Anderson denied this, while Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young accused Antic of using "deeply offensive" language.[27] Act defended her appearance on Play School Story Time in an opinion piece she wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald and during an appearance on The Project.[28][29]

Logo history

Play School has had a number of openers and logos throughout its long history. Originating as simple animations with vocals from select presenters, the logos and their respective openers have evolved over the many years of the series. The most recent logo, introduced in 2011, features an opener made entirely of stop-motion animation with vocals by presenters Justine Clarke and Jay Laga'aia.

Presenters

Australian musician Don Spencer is a noted presence on the program, having not only been a presenter for some 28 years but also releasing several related tie-in records. He also appeared with Diana Dorgan, the only presenter to appear on both the Australian and British versions, although Lorraine Bayly briefly appeared on the British version in 1972 as a storyteller

Play School has had many presenters, however several remained (or remain) with the series for a long period. Australian actress Benita Collings (30 years) and British-Australian actor John Hamblin (29 years) are the longest-serving.

The program's long-term hosts have also included: Alister Smart (25 years), Noni Hazlehurst (23 years), Andrew McFarlane, Simon Burke (20 years), Karen Pang (22 years) and Justine Clarke (21 years).[30]

While the show is written by preschool education experts, the presenters are all well-known actors or musicians who can connect well with the target audience.

Long time presenter Justine Clarke (tenure; 2000-present)

Current Presenters

Presenter Tenure Reference/s
Karen Pang 1999–present [31]
Andrew McFarlane 2000–present [32]
Justine Clarke 2000–present [31]
Leah Vandenberg 2000–present
Teo Gebert 2004–present
Alex Papps 2006–present
Abi Tucker 2009–present [33]
Luke Carroll 2010–present [34]
Emma Palmer 2011–present
Rachael Coopes 2011–present [35]
Michelle Lim Robinson 2013–present
Zindzi Okenyo 2013–present
Hunter Page-Lochard 2018–present
Matthew Backer 2017–present
Kaeng Chan 2018–present [31]
Miah Madden 2022–present [36]

List of former presenters

The cast of numerous presenters, has featured the who's who of actors of stage and screen and musicians

  • Note list is current to 2016, the 50th anniversary year, and may not reflect updated changes

Source:National Museum Australia (Link:[37])

Presenter Tenure
Kiruna Stamell 2018–2020[38][39]
Miranda Tapsell 2016
Eddie Perfect 2015–2016 [40]
Essie Davis 2011–2012
Hugh Sheridan 2009–2013 [41]
Georgie Parker 2006–2012
Brooke Satchwell 2005–2008
Matt Passmore 2002–2011
Ling-Hsueh Tang 2002
Dasi Ruz 2000
Rhys Muldoon 2000–2012
Jay Laga'aia 2000–2014
Mark Owen-Taylor 2000
David Whitney 2001
Deborah Mailman 1998–2002
Glenn Butcher 1997–2000
Jamie Oxenbould 1997
Joy Hopwood 1995–1997
David James 1994–2000
Angela Moore 1994–2000
Nicholas Opolski 1993-1994
Jeremy Scrivener 1993-1994
Colin Buchanan 1992–1999
Carlton Lamb 1992–1993
Georgie Goldstein 1995-1996
David McCubbin 1991–1995
Sofya Gollan 1992–2020*
Sarah Chadwick 1991
Pauline McLeod 1990–2003
Monica Trapaga 1990–1998
Tara Morice 1989, 1993
James Valentine 1989, 1992
Simon Burke 1988–2007, 2013
Liz Burch 1988
Trisha Goddard 1987–1998
Anna Maria Monticelli 1987
George Spartels 1986–1999
Merridy Eastman 1985–1989
Liddy Clark 1984
Tyler Coppin 1982
Philip Quast 1981–1996
Lynette Curran 1981
Elaine Hudson 1981
Barbara Frawley 1980–1992
Jennifer Ludlam 1983–1986
Mervyn Drake 1980s
Colin Friels 1980
Noni Hazlehurst 1978–2001
Judy Cannon 1978
Roslyn Gentle 1977
Mary Ann Severne 1975
Peter Sumner 1974
John Waters 1972–1990
John Hamblin 1970–1996
Richard Bradshaw 1970s–1996
Benita Collings 1969–1999
Jan Kingsbury 1969–1986
Ken Shorter 1969
Don Spencer 1968–1999
Darlene Johnson 1968
Tom Oliver 1967
Nehama Patkin 1966 (original)[42]
Lorraine Bayly 1966–1978 (original)
Kerry Francis 1966–1969
Anne Haddy 1966–1969 (original)
Donald McDonald 1966–1969 (original)
Peter Drake 1966 (original)
Evan Dunstan 1966 (original)
Patsy King 1966 (original)
Ann Stroh 1966
David Yorston 1966 (original)
Alister Smart 1966–1993 (original)
Diane Dorgan 1966 (original; appeared in episode 1)

See also

Notes

  1. The clocks and windows were subsequently sent to the National Museum of Australia.[12][13][14]

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