'Poppy' from BBC children's television series 'Play School'
'Poppy', doll with plastic head, arms and legs from BBC children's programme 'Play School'. Poppy has long, dark hair and is wearing a blue dungarees and shirt with white stripes.
'Play School' was broadcast every weekday morning on the BBC from 1964 to 1988. Its format, aimed at pre-school children, remained almost unchanged: songs, dances, dressing up, pets, films of the outside world 'seen' through one of three windows, and the real stars of 'Play School' - the toys.
The 'Play School' toys were Humpty (a plush version of the nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty), teddies Big Ted and Little Ted, ragdoll Jemima, and plastic doll Hamble (replaced by Poppy in the mid-1980s). Poppy, a black doll, was introduced to reflect changing attitudes in society.
Details
- Category:
- Television
- Object Number:
- 2008-5093/5
- Materials:
- textile, plastic (unidentified) and synthetic textile
- Measurements:
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overall (estimate): 400 mm x 200 mm x 110 mm,
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford