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One of the Play School repeats on CBBC on Choice from the early 2000's has resurfaced; the episode in question happens to be from 35 years ago, Christmas Eve 1985!

If you’re after some light relief check out this channel. They parody various TV shows and produce mock-up title sequences. For example:

Some BBC Scotland Christmas magic from 40 years ago, courtesy of Deltic1976:

I like this video from him, very apt for the time of year:



The fact there's a Mr Blobby version of the song...

Christmas Day Play School ( 1985 ) as repeated on BBC Choice has also been uploaded.

https://youtu.be/TK-SUHcZwZA

I'm going to make an educated guess and say this is from Christmas Day 2000, as I think by 2001 they'd changed to using the CBBC web address DOG instead of BBC Choice's during children's programmes.

This video is marked as the final CBBC on Choice link, and still has the Choice web address on it, so that was still in use in 2002 which suggests to me they couldn't make up their mind which URL DOG they wanted to use:

If you watch the video, you will see the CBBC web address is used on screen until 0:14, when it is faded out and replaced by the version of the DOG with the Choice address as children's programmes had finished.

Also the fact that the CBBC set was updated in late 2001 and output moved to widescreen also suggests the Play School video is from Christmas 2000, as the 4:3 programme in the above clip was being cropped to 14:9 (standard for CBBC at the time).

By 2001 they were cropping 4:3 content to 14:9 as well, which this isn't.

So that makes the Play School episode 15 years old when broadcast on CBBC on Choice, yet that broadcast now happened 20 years ago.

That is messing with my mind.

The older you get, the more your mind is messed with in that way... Often on a daily basis I find.

BBC Newsflash announcing the end of the miners strike in 1985. Note the badly aligned wording on the newsflash caption at the start of the video.