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46 Episodes 1978 - 1978
Episode 1
28 mins
Aka 139.1 ep#541 John and Benita make a model farm and glove puppet emus. The story is entitled 'Old MacDonald had Some Flats'.
Episode 2
28 mins
Aka 139.2 ep#542 John is the cowboy without a horse in today's story. Through the windows a boy goes riding.
Episode 3
28 mins
Aka 139.3 ep#543 It's sheep shearing time in Play School. There is a real sheep today; and a box, chains and broom become a cow with rubber glove udder. Through the windows there is sheep shearing.
Episode 4
28 mins
Aka 139.4 ep#544 Benita and Alister make puppets with vegetables. Bushranger Beetroot Bill is the star of the puppet story. Through the windows damper is made.
Episode 5
28 mins
Aka 139.1 ep#545 Alister and Benita watch chickens hatching in an incubator. The story is entitled 'The Little Farm' and through the windows there are people droving.
Episode 6
28 mins
Aka 140.1 ep#546 Jan and John make finger puppets of animals. Through the windows are Australian animals.
Episode 7
28 mins
Aka 140.2 ep#547 Animals with spots and stripes are identified in a game. Through the windows is the Moscow Circus on ice.
Episode 8
28 mins
Aka 140.3 ep#548 Jan and John feed ducklings and through the windows a boy caring for puppies. The story is 'Angus and the Ducks' by Marjorie Flack.
Episode 9
28 mins
aka 140.4 ep#549 Nonsense animal face masks are made by Jan and John. The story is 'The Saggy Baggy Elephant'.
Episode 10
28 mins
aka 140.5 ep#550 Play School Toys are featured in the story about a cat called Fleabag. The film shows a horse and foal.
Episode 11
28 mins
Aka 141.1 ep#551 Judy and John make two islands, one for Australia and one for England for Jemima to visit. It's four o'clock on the rocket clock with a Qantas plane behind. John tells his story about migrating to Australia. Through the square window there are people riding horses to school. Judy pretends to be a tourist.
Episode 12
28 mins
Aka 141.2 ep#552 Jan and John dress the toys up as guardsmen and an English bobby. John dresses as Lord Mayor of London. It's six o'clock on the rocket clock. Behind the clock is a golden coach being pulled by six white horses. The story is 'Humbert' by John Burningham. The toys take part in a procession. Through the round window there is a royal coach.
Episode 13
28 mins
Aka 141.3 ep#553 Noni and John clean the budgerigar cage for Peppino and Peppina. Noni looks at cuttlefish, shells, pebbles and a sea urchin collected from the beach. She decorates a shoebox lid with the shells. John looks at an aquarium with defensive sea creatures including jelly fish, hermit crabs and spiky sea urchins. Noni sings 'Little Shell'. Hamble is sitting at the seaside behind the rocket clock. Noni reads 'Lucy and Tom at the Seaside' by Shirley Hughes, a book about the English seaside. John builds a sand castle tower and sings 'I take my shovel'. Noni adds sand castle turrets, walls and a moat to the castle. John fills the moat. Noni looks at images of London. There is a large model of a castle in the studio. John uses soldier toys to act out an attack of the castle by knights and archers. Noni helps Big Ted, Jemima and Hamble ride in on Dapple the rocking horse to attack John's cardboard box castle. John helps Humpy and Little Ted defend the castle with paper aeroplanes as they're bombarded with scrunched paper cannon balls. Jemima and Humpy are both hit in action, Big Ted and Hamble use a battering ram damaging the castle wall, which leads to a sword fight between Little Ted and Jemima. Little Ted is wounded and pleads that Jemima spares his life, at which point Jemima is declared the victor and everyone sings 'For she's a jolly good fellow'. Through the arched window dogs are playing at the English seaside. Noni sings 'Here is the sea' and feeds Bit and Bot. John and Noni knock down the sandcastle before saying goodbye.
Episode 14
28 mins
Aka 141.3 ep#554 Judy dresses as queen and John as king. Their palace is made of a cardboard box. The story is 'The King's Breakfast' by A. A. Milne.
Episode 15
28 mins
Aka ep141.5 ep#555 The story of 'The Winter Bear', by Ruth Park and Erik Blegvad, evokes the chill of an English winter. John and Noni melt an ice man. Through the windows a dog runs in the snow.
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Episode 21
28 mins
aka 143.1 ep#561 Jan and John make puppets from socks. The story is The Musicians of Bremen.
Episode 22
28 mins
Aka 143.2 ep#562 Jan has a shoe shop and the John and the toys are customers. The story is about a jolly hippopotamus.
Episode 23
28 mins
aka 143.3 ep#563 A penguin visits Play School. The story is about a seagull.
Episode 24
28 mins
OUTSIDE BROADCAST at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. aka 143.4 ep#564 Benita and Don meet children staying in hospital.
Episode 25
28 mins
Aka 143.5 ep#565 A baby is the visitor in Play School. Through the windows an elephant's toenails are clipped.
Episode 26
28 mins
Aka 144.1 ep#566 Benita and Alister make a collage about the country and the city.
Episode 27
28 mins
aka 144.2 ep#567 John is a clown in today's story. The film shows the Royal Easter Show.
Episode 28
28 mins
OUTSIDE BROADCAST at Equus Riding Centre in Terrey Hills, NSW. aka 144.3 ep#568 Jan and Alister visit a riding school and learn about how to ride and look after horses.
Episode 29
28 mins
aka 144.4 ep#569 Jan and Alister do some carpentry.
Episode 30
28 mins
Aka 144.5 ep#570 The story is Indian Two-Foot and his horse.
Episode 31
28 mins
Aka 145.1 ep#571 Benita and John demonstrate games using air. They act out the story 'Can William Whistle' about William who is learning to whistle in preparation for a surprise birthday present. Through the windows we see a rubber castle blown up and bounced on.
Episode 32
28 mins
aka 145.2 ep#572 John and Benita demonstrate bread making, bicycle and scooter riding. The story is about bakers.
Episode 33
28 mins
Aka 145.3 ep#573 Benita and John demonstrate parts of the body. They show how animals breathe. Two live crocodiles visit Play School, and John and his puppets tell the story of 'A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go'.
Episode 34
28 mins
Aka 145.4 ep#574 Benita and John talk about wind and wind instruments. Guest flautist Don helps to play musical games and to provide sound effects for the story 'Lucy the Drummer', acted out by Benita. Through the windows there are bandsmen at the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Episode 35
28 mins
aka 145.5 ep#575 Benita and Alister demonstrate the use of air with wind chimes.
Episode 36
28 mins
Aka 146.1 ep#576 Papua New Guinea is featured in Play School today with Noni and Don. Through the windows children are picking coconuts.
Episode 37
28 mins
Aka 146.2 ep#577 Don makes a dough mask like the Papua New Guinea mud masks. Noni makes garlands of flowers.
Episode 38
28 mins
Aka 146.3 ep#578 Noni and Don look at tropical fish. The film shows children playing on a Papua New Guinea beach.
Episode 39
28 mins
Aka 146.4 ep#579 The story today is about a child shopping in a supermarket and through the Windows there is an open air market in Rabaul.
Episode 40
28 mins
aka 146.5 ep#580 Noni and Don make an outrigger canoe and on film we see children racing boats in Papua New Guinea.
Episode 41
28 mins
aka 147.1 ep#581 John and Noni build a climbing frame. The film shows a construction site.
Episode 42
28 mins
aka 147.2 ep#582 John and Noni make an upstairs and downstairs house. The story is Grandmother Lucy's hats.
Episode 43
28 mins
aka 147.3 ep#583 There is a cat in Play School today and the film shows climbing animals. The story is 'The Cat That Stamped His Feet'.
Episode 44
28 mins
aka 147.4 ep#584 Jan and John make a snowy mountain out of boxes and use puppets to tell the story of 'Abby, the Abominable Snowman'.
Episode 45
28 mins
aka 147.5 ep#585 Jan and John 'move house' for Jemima. The story is 'The Red Door'.
Episode 46
28 mins