Crossword clues for playbox
Wiktionary
n. A box for storing playthings; a toybox.
WordNet
n. a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) [syn: play-box]
Wikipedia
Playbox is a TV programme for pre-school children aged 2–5, which ran during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United Kingdom on ITV and was produced by Central Independent Television. It was the first ragdoll show to be made by ITV. It was created by Leslie Pitts, and Anne Wood (who had only recently founded the now famous Ragdoll Productions).
The show took place inside a red, yellow and blue box, with the main characters, Cat and Dog, being controlled by a puppeteer ( Marcus Clarke) from inside the box. The puppets would draw pictures, tell stories, sing songs, and play jokes on one another (mainly typical slapstick). The puppets were voiced by Pat Coombs and Keith Chegwin.
Playbox was part of the many other children's shows that would appear on weekday lunchtimes on ITV1 between midday and 12.30pm as well as Rainbow, Rod, Jane and Freddy, Allsorts, Rosie and Jim and The Riddlers.
Playbox began on air in August 31, 1987 and the show finished in September 18, 1992.
Episodes which were the chosen episodes from each series, In 1987 the first series of playbox was broadcast for 13 episodes, In the 1988 series of series two there were 10 episodes, Another 10 episodes from series three in 1989, Another 10 episodes from series 4 in 1990, 9 Episodes were shown in 1991 in series 5 and the final 8 episodes during series six in 1992 until the show was axed, All the series have got 60 episodes.
Playbox may refer to:
- Playbox (1980s TV series), a children television programme that ran on ITV in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s
- Playbox (1950s TV series), a children television programme that ran on BBC in the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1964
Playbox was a British children's television show that ran on BBC from 1955 to 1964. Presenters who appeared on it included Eamonn Andrews, Rolf Harris, Tony Hart, Cliff Michelmore and Johnny Morris
Usage examples of "playbox".
I came out Mike was looking in the playbox for that magnifying glass you gave him.
It was like being in the corner of a giants playbox, the shadow of the Wall so deep it seemed almost night.
That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them.
Sullen coals lay heaped in an immense hearth which sprawled across the very center of the room like a child's playbox full of sand, with marble border stones enclosing a space a good twelve inches deep and at least four feet on each side, sixteen square feet given over to the coals.