 "Play School" originally appeared on weekdays at 11am on BBC2 and received Holiday runs on BBC1 in Summer 1964 and 1965, later acquiring a mid-afternoon BBC1 repeat as the opening programme of BBC1's teatime children's schedule.The morning showing was transferred to BBC1 in September 1983 when BBC Schools programming transferred to BBC2.It remained in that slot even after daytime television was launched in October 1986 and continued to be broadcast at that time until it was superseded in October 1988 by "Playbus".