Playdays

Playdays
Also known asPlaybus
GenreAnimation
Created byCynthia Felgate
Developed byFelgate Productions
Written bySimon Davies
Directed byClare Bradley
Brian Jameson
Iain Lauchlan
Will Brenton
Helen Sheppard
Stephen Cannon
Adrian Hedley
Robin Carr
Leslie Pitt
Trevor Hill
Mark Pickett
Jamie Langton
Michelle Jones
Presented byBrian Jameson
Simon Davies
Zoe Ball
Vanessa Amberleigh
Nick Baker
Elizabeth Fost
Floella Benjamin
Colin Kerrigan
Dave Benson Phillips
Liz Kitchen
Dyanne White
Stephen Cannon
Chris Jarvis
Andrew Lynford
Stuart Bradley
Liz Watts
Will Brenton
Sue Monroe
Sarah Davidson
Robin Fritz
Clive Duncan
Andy Hockley
Nick Mercer
Michele Durler
Jonny Griffiths
Sonali Shah
Teresa Gallagher
Peter Quilter
Neil Bett
Paul Hawkyard
Royce Hounsell
Trish Cooke
Karl Woolley
Alex Lovell
Theme music composerSteve Brown
ComposersJonathan Cohen
Kim Goody
Liz Kitchen
Graham Pike
Alex Matthias
Andrew Dodge
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes1174 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersCynthia Felgate
Andrew Thomas
ProducersClare Bradley
Penny Lloyd
Barbara Roddam
Anne Reay
Michael Cole
Ann Gobey
Kate Marlow
Will Brenton
Production locationCapital Group Studios
Production companyFelgate Productions
Original release
NetworkBBC One and BBC Two (Children's BBC)
Release17 October 1988 (1988-10-17) –
28 March 1997 (1997-03-28)
Related
Play School
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Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) is a British preschool television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC. The show was the successor to Play School and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.

The show's name was changed after the BBC received a complaint from the National Playbus Association.

In 2002, reruns were moved to the new CBeebies channel until August 2004.