Playdays - Characters and Plot

Characters and Plot

The main characters of Playdays were puppets known as Why Bird, (voiced and manipulated by Ellie Darvill), Peggy Patch (Sally Preisig) and Poppy, a cat (Sue Monroe). They were also accompanied by Mr Jolly, (Robin Fritz, later Clive Duncan and then Andy Hockley) who would usually end each programme with a song (usually a nursery rhyme). There were also a number of human presenters including Zoë Ball, Trish Cooke and Dave Benson Phillips. The show would begin with a title sequence of the Playbus driving along to the theme tune until it reached the bus stop, where characters on the bus were Why, Peggy, Dot, Poppy, Humphry, Lizzie and Mr. Jolly. The bus stopped at a different place each day.