User:BBC Playhouse History

BBC Playhouse was a BBC children's television programme, running from 1985-1992. It is considered to be the first live children's programme.

The programme was mainly hosted by Philip Schofield in Series 1-6. From series 7, the show's main host was Andi Peters who remained on the show until the 1988 Christmas special, in total hosting 3 series. For series 10, Andy Crane took over hosting the show and remained there until series 12. For the thirteenth series, Molly Maglin and Danny Baker took over the hosting duties and remained there until series 18. The final two series didn't have in-vision presenters, instead Michael Morrison had the role of voice over presenter.

For the final episode on June 19th 1992, all of the previous presenters except for Andy Crane appeared.

The show is recognised for creating the hit boyband Blue, who appeared in 16 series of the show.