History Trivia / Playschool

* NamesTheSame: The name is similar to an American toy brand that is an offbranch of Hasbro called Playskool.

* The Australian version had a tradition where occasionally, the live pianist would make an on camera appearance. Warren Carr, musical director from 1972 to 1993, was famous for this, after Warren's death in 1993, this tradition was carried on with subsequent musicians such as Max Lambert and Elliott Wilshier playing on camera.

* Like Mister Rogers Neighborhood, Play School episodes in Australia are grouped in sets of 5, one for every weekday,with each set (or series) covering a specific theme. 9 sets of new episodes are made each year, with the remainder of the slots filled with reruns drawn from the past 7 years. Each year the oldest episodes are retired as new ones are made.

** ''Before the 1999 revamp, episodes of the Australian version were recorded in one take.

** ''Like Mr Rogers, Play School episodes in Australia are grouped in sets of 5, one for every weekday,with each block covering a specific theme. 9 sets of new episodes are made each year, with the remainder of the slots filled with reruns drawn from the past 7 years. Each year the oldest episodes are retired as new ones are made.

Before the 1999 revamp, episodes of the Australian version were recorded in one take.

Like Mr Rogers, Play School episodes in Australia are grouped in sets of 5, one for every weekday,with each block covering a specific theme. 9 sets of new episodes are made each year, with the remainder of the slots filled with reruns drawn from the past 7 years. Each year the oldest episodes are retired as new ones are made.

Before the 1999 revamp, episodes of the Australian were recorded in one take.

Before the 1999 revamp, episodes were recorded in one take.

Like Mr Rogers, Play School episodes are grouped in sets of 5, one for every weekday,with each block covering a specific theme. 9 sets of new episodes are made each year, with the remainder of the slots filled with reruns drawn from the past 7 years. Each year the oldest episodes are retired as new ones are made.

Before the 1999 revamp, episodes were recorded in one take.

** ''Playdays'' for the British version, which was a sequel of sorts to ''Play School''.

* SpinOff: BananasInPajamas.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** A child who watched the UK version in the Seventies and Eighties would go on to see Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin or Johnny Ball in ... well, just about any other educataiment show on Children's BBC.
** Pretty much all the cast in the Australian version are well-known actors, so the series has this trope in full effect. Philip Quast, most known for playing Inspector Javert in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', is just one example.

** Pretty much all the cast in the Australian version are well-known actors, so the series has this trope in full effect. Philip Quast, most known for playing Inspector Javert in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', is just one example.