You were one of the singers there? Omg!

That was the issue. Nobody who worked on Play School worked on this programme apart from Simon Davies, who hosted both this and Play School in the late 1980s. This is a quote from Simon that can be found in television historian Paul R. Jackson's book series about Play School, "Here's A House", "I did have the honour of being, if not the very last, then one of the last presenters to utter those immortal words 'which window are we looking through today?' on Play School and I was the very first presenter to utter the same phrase 16 years later when I presented the first episode of Tikkabilla for CBeebies in 2002. (To some a Play School clone). Though there were lots of similarities between the two series (The clock, the windows, the stories and songs), for me there was one striking difference; Tikkabilla was made 'rehearse-record' not 'as-live'. So you rehearsed each sequence, and then recorded it. If it went wrong, you stopped and recorded it again and again until it was perfect. So the energy of the programme was linear. It was like so many programmes these days, all in the same gear. It didn't have the dynamic, the life that Play School had." So essentially, Simon; the Brian Cant of Tikkabilla, the Play School veteran, the lead host, didn't even think the programme had the original charm that the source material did. When your main host is calling the remake crap, you're doing something wrong. If they had some of the producers on Play School take part, or if they had some more hosts like Iain Lauchlan or Floella Benjamin take part, I doubt Tikkabilla would've been as terrible as it became.

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@More Thunder Not anymore, but I did used to as a kid.

I'm here too guys. Great link for plane maniacs.

Nostalgia is definitely something understandable. For me, I wasn't the biggest fan of this show, still not. I think it does the original source material (Play School) injustice. However, two of the presenters, Beverly Hills and Paul Ewing, I do enjoy, some of the stuff like Bonny Banana and Moe is quite fun, and the theme song is a little catchy. But, in sheer honesty, all the other presenters were absolutely nothing like the original cast of Play School, Tamba completely destroys the one on one relationship the presenters need to capture with the audience, and the music is all terrible GarageBand sounding tracks as supposed to studio musicians like we had with Play School. Have you by any chance heard of Play School? It aired from 1964-1988 on BBC2, and it's where Tikkabilla got the windows, clock and its general format from.

@@RandomGuy-qh7tl I’ve possibly heard my parents mention it, as for the soundtrack and presenter dynamic, it worked for the target audience, 2-6 year olds, which I was at the time so I don’t really have an opinion on it,

@@rachelx04 Okay. I respect what you have to say about that, but to do a comparison, I'll provide you with an edition of Play School. Once you finish watching it, you wouldn't mind telling me what you think about it. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8WSfc94mailo5c.html The presenters here are Chloe Ashcroft and Derek Griffiths, with a lovely story read by James Blades. Listen to how Chloe and Derek talk to the camera firstly, then compare it with say Sarah-Jane Honeywell and Justin Fletcher from the remake.

@@rachelx04 Have you watched it yet? If so, what do you think in comparison to Tikkabilla?

@@rachelx04 Unfortunately, not many editions of "Play School" are online, well, the original BBC series anyhow. And not many survive in general. I believe that there used to be thousands of programs, now only 1,900 survive in terms of the original run.