15/09/1983 - BBC1 Continuity and Play School (Partial) 

Presumably so you can dance around your living room to the phat bass.

The reason the programme slide is on screen for so long is due to other regions in the UK having a news bulletin during the 5 minutes before Playschool. The London region, (which this is recorded from), had to play music for the 5 minutes instead. Yes, programmes back then were a lot more slow paced and required the viewer to pay attention to what what going on, on screen, without the need for superfluous bright colours, cartoon noises and presenters playing at being silly older siblings, trying to be friends with and impress all of the time. These shows were presented by grown-ups who behaved as grown-ups talking to children of a certain age. Which is exactly what was expected, at the time.

@@j0hnf_ukAh, every day's a school day. Having not lived in London myself, that would explain why the slide seemed so strange, I didn't remember them being there that long when I was growing up, that would explain it! As for the programmes themselves, I completely agree. I was re-living some old Blue Peter shows from the 80s the other week, and I noticed just how little "talking down" there was to the audience. Modern shows for adults dumb down their content more than kids shows did to their audience a few decades previously.

This was the second last programme with these titles. The whole week was based around “ moving house “. The new look began on Monday 19th September

@andreww6769 The same date when schools programmes were on BBC2 plus to the fact that 11am slot went to BBC1 for its first airing.

@@jamesmitchell8922 It moved to 10.30am and instead of the morning programme being repeated in the afternoon, the afternoon programme was repeated in the morning the proceeding week. The first week of mornings ( from 19th September) were called “ Compilation Week “ and all presented by Carol Leader.

​​@@andreww6769Then... that was it. After "Compilation Week", the show was just dead, and it only got worse. The only decent thing about any week after this one were the presenters. Not much of Brian Cant, Sarah Long, Johnny Ball or Lionel Morton, which is quite sad, but quite a bit of Floella Benjamin, Fred Harris and Carol Chell, which was nice. And, a lot of the new presenters were really good, like Liz Watts or Wayne Jackman. But the format just flopped. The new format was all over the place, it was just a right mess. And the older presenters said so themselves. All you have to do is listen to Fred Harris' big monologue-esque rant on the 1984-1988 era on the 1995 "Trumpton Riots" radio reunion. He was right, it did become an everyday "Play Away" except no where near as enjoyable or as fun. Floella said it better herself at the 2010 BBC Radio reunion too, without the Nancy Quayles or the Cynthia Felgates, the revamp had absolutely no chance.

I preferred early Play school. They changed Hamble's dress.