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51 Episodes 1970 - 1970
Episode 1
28 mins
Aka 63.1 ep#161 Lorraine and Ken build a house from different shaped boxes. Poem of week is "Key of the Kingdom". Film is of a brick layer building a wall. Lorraine builds a wall with shoe box bricks. She reads the story "Are you my Mother?". Ken mimes being a tree and sings a tree song.
Episode 2
28 mins
Aka 63.2 ep#162 Lorraine and Ken build up sounds with different instruments. Ken dresses as a drummer and plays the bass drum and the side drum. Stanley tells the story of "The Stamping Elephant". Film is of drummers. Lorraine dresses as a drum Majorette and she and Ken march and sing.
Episode 3
28 mins
Aka 63.3 ep#163 The budgies are given a nesting box and Lorraine shows a wild bird's nest. Ken reads the story "Straw for a Nest". Lorraine mentions that other creatures besides birds hatch from eggs. Film is of crocodiles hatching. The visitor is a baby crocodile. Ken talks about crocodiles and Lorraine sings "She sailed away".
Episode 4
28 mins
Aka 63.4 ep#164 Lorraine and Ken look at a variety of keys. Lorraine mimes a clockwork doll. Ken reads the story: "The King, the Mice and the Cheese". Lorraine has built a kingdom for the toys and she dresses up as a Queen. Ken is the King.
Episode 5
28 mins
Aka 63.5 ep#165 Lorraine and Ken plant onions, carrots and potatoes. Stanley tells a Native American story and illustrates it with hand movements. Lorraine uses some potatoes to print with and builds up different pictures with the potato shapes. Ken tries to build a pyramid of potatoes. Lorraine prepares a salad for Stanley and Ken.
Episode 6
28 mins
Aka 64.1 ep#166 Darlene and Don make a hand puppet. Don sings "Put your Finger on your Nose". He tells a story of himself and his nephew Peter on a walk and he illustrates it with photos. Darlene uses different items to make a variety of sounds. Don joins her with a drum and trumpet. She mimes the conducting of an orchestra. Film is of an orchestra. They dance their puppet to music.
Episode 7
28 mins
Aka 64.2 ep#167 Don dresses as a hairdresser and washes and dries Darlene's hair. Film is of animals being beautified and the story is about a vain and dandy lion. Don prepares a party for the toys. Darlene arrives with her freshly set hair. They play and sing a party game.
Episode 8
28 mins
Aka 64.3 ep#168 The visitors for pets day are a cat and her newly born kittens. Don makes a pair of glasses and plays the finger game "Here are Grandma's Glasses". The story is of a girl with poor eye-sight and the Film is of a maternity hospital. Don and Darlene put the toys to bed and sing them a lullaby.
Episode 9
28 mins
Aka 64.4 ep#169 Darlene and Don use paper plates to make some animal masks. Darlene talks about the growth and care of teeth. Film: Child at the dentist. Don and Darlene show different ways of cleaning teeth. Don reads the story: "Who likes What?". He then matches different foods to each animal mask. Darlene takes Jemima shopping to buy some food.
Episode 10
28 mins
Aka 64.5 ep#170 Darlene has a variety of mirrors and shows the use of them. Film: Children at an amusement park "Hall of Mirrors". Don and Darlene set up a screen and lights and make different shadows. Richard Bradshaw uses his shadow puppets to illustrate the story "Mouse, Hippopotamus and Ostrich". The toys act out a shadow play called "The Sad Adventures of Humpty Dumpty".
Episode 11
Aka 65.1 ep#171 Benita and Alistair turn the useful box into a boat. The story is 'Father Neptune and the Whales'. Through the windows are performing dolphins and whales.
Episode 12
Alister is dressed as a life saver. Benita looks at the different style swimming caps that life savers wear. They look at the calendar. Alister patrols the water and has to rescue Big Ted who seems to have a 'touch of cramps' while swimming. Alister changes his life saver cap for the marching life saver cap and the presenters march with Little Ted. Through the square window thee are surf boat races. Benita paints the sea with a sponge on newspaper. She adds a boat and then sings 'The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh', using the lyric 'sunk to the bottom of the sea' while painting over the boat. It is seven o'clock on the flower clock with a boat underneath. Alister reads 'The Sailor' by Dick Bruna. Benita is dressed as a sailor and sings the song of the week 'Messing About on the River'. The presenters sail a yacht with Big Ted and wear life jackets, while singing 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor (sea-sick teddy)?'.
Episode 13
Aka 65.3 ep#173 Benita and Alister sing 'Once I caught a fish alive'. They look at Bit and Bot in the aquarium. Benita sings the song of the week 'Messing about on the river'. Alister fishes in a tank for a yabby. Instead of singing 'Pussycat, pussycat where have you been?', the presenters sing 'Yabby oh yabby, where have you been?'. Then they sing 'A yabby would a wooing go'. It is twelve o'clock on the clock with an old fashioned car underneath. Benita reads 'Tisi and the Yabby' by Geoffrey Dutton and photographed by Dean Hay. Alister sings 'Three Little Fishies'. Benita uses a spray bottle to spatter paint some leaves. Alister draws faces on the spaces left by the leaves, turning them into fish. They sing 'All the fish are swimming in the water'. Through the square windows, some bears are hunting for fish in a river.
Episode 14
Aka 65.4 ep#174 Benita and Alister pour water into a dark tray for a guessing game. They look at the calendar and sing the song of the week. Humpty, Jemima, Hamble and Little Ted are used to sing 'On the Bridge of Avignon'. Benita plays the guessing game by showing the reflection of wooden toys in the water tray: a horse, boat, bridge and swan. It is eight o'clock on the flower clock with paint tins and brushes underneath. Alister uses paper, paint and water to tell a story about blobs and lines. Benita mimes making blobs and lines with her arms and legs, changing according to the music. Alister joins in. Through the round window children are doing paintings at their school. Alister mimes scratching, eating and piano playing. Benita does the finger play 'Where is Thumbkin?'.
Episode 15
Aka 65.5 ep#175 Benita and Alister look at the calendar and sing the song of the week 'Messing about on the river'. Alister forgets the words to the song, and is humming, so they sing the song again with Alister humming. Benita explains how a river forms. Alister experiments with freshwater and salt water to make an egg float. It is half past one on the flower clock, with a mother duck and three ducklings underneath. Benita reads the book 'The Big River' by Elizabeth Rose and illustrated by Gerald Rose. Alister makes rain sounds by tapping his fingers on a block. Benita sings 'Eency Weency Spider'. Through the arched window there are water fountains. Alister makes a water fountain with a squirty detergent bottle. The presenters sing 'Ha Ha Thisaway' with humming, singing, whistling, crying and laughing.
Episode 16
Aka 66.1 ep#176 Ken and Darlene make some balloon men. They sing 'Wibbly Wobbly Walk'.
Episode 17
Aka 66.2 ep#177 Ken dresses as a soldier and he and Darlene sing and act 'Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me?'. Darlene reads the story 'Grandmother Lucy and Her Hats'. Ken makes a newspaper hat for Humpty. Through the windows are Paddy's Markets.
Episode 18
Aka 66.3 ep#178 The visitor is a bearded lizard who resembles a dragon. Darlene wears a dragon head and Noel Brophy tells the story of 'The Dragon and the Magician'. Ken makes a clay teapot and teacups. Through the windows is a pottery factory.
Episode 19
Aka 66.4 ep#179 Darlene and Ken have borrowed an electric train set which is set up in the studio. They watch the train run along the tracks and then look at different kinds of engines. Darlene builds a town in the sandpit and the film is of children playing on the beach. Ken has made a train for the toys and he drives them to the beach.
Episode 20
Aka 66.5 ep#180 Darlene and Ken blow soap bubbles and use some models to illustrate a story about the wind's activities on seven days. Darlene has an electric fan to help her fly a kite; Ken shows how to make a kite. Through the windows is footage of learning to swim. and Darlene shows different methods of swimming.
Episode 21
Aka 67.1 ep#181 Lorraine and John test a torch. John builds a harbour and uses the torch as a lighthouse. He then reads the story Old Winkle and the Seagulls. Through the windows there are seagulls and pelicans.
Episode 22
Aka 67.2 ep#182 Tuesday
Episode 23
Aka 67.3 ep#183 Lorraine and John compare the feet of the pets. The story today is told by Barry Lovett about 'Pedro's Feet'. Through the windows there are animals moving.
Episode 24
Aka 67.4 ep#184 Lorraine and John try to ride a cycle with one wheel, a mono-cycle. John then reads the story, 'The Bike Lesson'. The film is of children playing bicycle tag. John has a real motor scooter in the studio. He shows his crash helmet and goggles. Lorraine is his passenger and also wears a helmet and goggles.
Episode 25
Aka 67.5 ep#185 John does some exercises. Barry Lovett tells the story of 'The Little Red Engine'. Through the windows children are riding Puffing Billy.
Episode 26
28 mins
Aka 68.1 ep#186 Anne and Don are in the Play School garden. Anne plants some seeds and Don makes a bird feeding box. The story is "The Best Nest" and the Film shows birds feeding in the winter. Anne mentions that birds live in nests but people live in houses. She shows photos of different homes.
Episode 27
28 mins
Aka 68.2 ep#187 Anne and Don do a matching puzzle game. Don dresses in overalls as a builder. Anne uses the felt board to illustrate the story/verse of "The House that Jack Built". Don builds a house from the blocks for the toys. Film shows the assembling and building of a mobile house. Don and Anne sing and recite various songs and rhymes about houses.
Episode 28
28 mins
Aka 68.3 ep#188 The mice have some babies. The visitor is a Jersey Cow called Daisy which Don milks in studio. The story is told by a mother with her baby and she shows the bathing and feeding of her son. Film is of babies both human and animal, being carried. Don gives the cow a drink and Anne gives her something to eat.
Episode 29
28 mins
Aka 68.4 ep#189 Anne and Don look at a picture book of animals and their young. Anne reads the story "Ask Mr Bear". Don uses the felt board to recap the story with the different animals and their suggested gifts. He plays a finger game about candles and the Film shows a barbecue birthday party. Anne and Don have a slippery dip in studio and give the toys a slide.
Episode 30
28 mins
Aka 68.5 ep#190 Anne and Don cook pop-corn, and Don has a model farm. He explains that most of the food we eat comes from farms. He tells the story of "The Little Red Hen". Anne cooks some sweetcorn and she and Don each eat a cob. Film of farm animals being fed. Anne and Don look at some food from a farm and show bread which has been baked from wheat.
Episode 31
28 mins
Aka 69.1 ep#191 Benita and Alister have a guitar which Alister plays. Benita makes a toy guitar from a cake-tin lid and rubber bands. David sings and tells the story of a pop singer "Spud Wallace". Alister plays a record which he and Benita dances to. Film of a dancing puppet. Alister and Benita shake and move like puppets.
Episode 32
28 mins
Aka 69.2 ep#192 Alister dresses in tie and tails. He acts a waiter and then changes roles to become a musician. Alister shows a violin and then plays a double bass. Benita tells the story of "Patrick and the Violin". The violin in the story was magic and so Alister does some magic tricks. Film shows a magician. Alister wears his tails to be a conductor of an orchestra.
Episode 33
28 mins
Aka 69.3 ep#193 Benita tries to play the flute. Don is introduced and he plays the flute while Alister tells the story of "Flutter the Fluter". The visitor for Pets Day is a cockatoo. Film is of a lyrebird. Alister makes two paper birds and Benita gives the cockatoo a biscuit.
Episode 34
28 mins
Aka 69.4 ep#194 Benita and Alister have a trombone and a trumpet. Story is of a baby called Trumpet who loves listening to brass bands. Film: A Brass Band. Benita shows the making of a bandman's hat from a piece of thin card and she puts bandsmen's hats on the toys. Alister and Benita mime playing in a band.
Episode 35
28 mins
Aka 69.5 ep#195 Alister shows a glockenspiel. He explains that its a percussion instrument and that its played by being hit. He hits a wooden bowl, a metal saucepan and glass bottle to demonstrate the different sounds they make. Film: Percussion Sounds. Story is "Gordon and the Glockenspiel". Benita demonstrates the making of macaroni pictures.
Episode 36
28 mins
Aka 70.1 ep#196 Lorraine and Ken make a small Tractor. Film shows the various uses of tractors. Ken reads the story: "The Little Farm". Lorraine dresses as a farmer and she and Ken sing "If I were a farmer". Lorraine sets up a roadside stall and sells fruit, vegetables and diary produce to Ken the customer.
Episode 37
28 mins
Aka 70.2 ep#197 Today Lorrraine and Ken pretend to visit a "Town Show". Lorraine dresses as a barker at a side-show and Ken dresses as "King Ken the Muscleman". Story is of "Prancer the Carousel Horse". Film shows a variety of horses. Ken has a hoop-la stall and Lorraine tries to win a prize for the toys.
Episode 38
28 mins
Aka 70.3 ep#198 Vincent visits Play School and brings with him, a live diamond python. He tells a story of the shedding of snakes' skins. Ken makes a snake from threaded cotton reels. He and Lorraine play a game of "Snakes and ladders". Film: Bush Animals. Lorraine mimes a kookaburra's laugh.
Episode 39
28 mins
Aka 70.4 ep#199 Lorraine paints a picture of the country and Ken does a painting of the city. Lorraine builds a city with the blocks and she and Ken push toy cars through the city streets. Lorraine tells a story of George Mouse who visits the city. Lorraine and Ken pretend to be in a department store. Film: Shopping in Town.
Episode 40
28 mins
Aka 70.5 ep#200 Lorraine and Ken make a fresh fruit salad. Lorraine reads the story: "Plum Pie" and Ken makes an apple pie. Film shows the growing, picking, packing and selling of fruit. Ken and Lorraine use the toys to play and sing "Oranges and Lemons". Ken takes his apple pie from the oven. Lorraine and Ken sing some pie songs and then start to eat the apple pie.
Episode 41
Aka 71.1 ep#201 Darlene and Don have a Jack-in-the-box and a pogo stick, and they discuss springing. The poem of the week is a nonsense rhyme called 'Anna Maria'. The story is called 'The Space Trip' and is told by Don. Through the windows there are children playing on a large toy rocket.
Episode 42
Aka 71.2 ep#202 Darlene and Don build a fire-engine with blocks. They dress as firemen and rescue Jemima from a burning building. The film shows Darlene and Don at a barbeque, pretending to cook sausages. Darlene and Don build a fire engine with blocks. Darlene reads a story on the discovery of roast porkin China a long time ago. The film through the windows is all about a barbecue. Darlene and Don pretend to cook sausages at a camp fire.
Episode 43
Aka 71.3 ep#203 Some young kittens visit Play School, Darlene and Don put the pet mice, fish and budgies in a safe place. Don reads the story of 'The Fish'.
Episode 44
Aka 71.4 ep#204 Darlene and Don play a blindfold game. They recite some nonsense rhymes. Kirrily Nolan tells the story 'Cheese, Peas and Chocolate Pudding'. There is a film showing cows and pigs eating.
Episode 45
Aka 71.5 ep#205 Don and Darlene have some iron filings. Darlene shows what items will be picked up by the magnet.
Episode 46
Aka 72.1 ep#206 Benita and John make a toy kite and sing 'Windy Weather'. John pretends to fly a kite. Then he pretends to be a bee and a crow. Benita looks at the flower clock, which shows half past two and has an aeroplane underneath. John reads "The Little Aeroplane". Benita pretends to be an aeroplane with propellers spinning. John pilots a plane, and Benita plays the mechanic. They sing 'Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines'. A picture of a jet plane is shown while a poem about flying to Bali is recited. Through the square window boys in Bali make a fish kite. Benita draws a fish and uses pretend wind to fly the fish. The presenters sing 'Let's Go Fly a Kite'.
Episode 47
Aka 72.2 ep#207 Tuesday
Episode 48
Aka 72.3 ep#208 Visitors to Play School are five ducklings and John and Benita sing a waddling and quacking song. The story is of a Red Indian tribe who wear eagle feathers in their headdress; The film shows ducks in Bali.
Episode 49
Aka 72.4 ep#209 John mimes and sings about various jungle animals. The film shows monkeys in Bali.
Episode 50
Aka 72.5 ep#210 John uses a model house to tell the story of an annoying buzzing fly.
Episode 51
28 mins
Lorraine and Don sing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'. Lorraine looks at the Christmas tree's decorations. They sing about being a wooden doll on a Christmas Tree. Lorraine tells the story of the nativity using wooden figurines. Don sings about baby Jesus in the manger. Through the round window two children deliver presents to their grandmother and eat fruit mince pies. Lorraine, Marianne and Don sing 'Ding Dong Merrily on High'. Marianne sings 'Little Drummer Boy'. Lorraine looks at Christmas cards, which have been sent in to Play School. She has presents for the toys: party hats for Little Ted and Humpty, and a popcorn necklace for Jemima. An animation of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' is shown. The presenters sing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.