What was inside Playhour pictures...? Playhour chat

[Peter Gray]

looks interesting...the cover looks photographic...



I can see Wind in the willows was inside!!


the logo Pictures didn't last long...


It was nice the magic Roundabout on the cover...could be very creative...

[Peter Gray]

Magic Roundabout cover in 1987..I love the Mr Men reference

[suebutcher]

"Magic Roundabout" must have run for twenty years on the cover, which is amazing for a television-based strip.

[felneymike]

Hmm, seems to have gone through no small amount of mergers...

[DavidKW]

I remember sometimes getting Playhour in early 70s - I remember it was before the Hey Diddle Diddle merger - as when I'd started primary school, on rainy days there would be a lot of pre-school comics lying around - I picked up a Playhour & saw a strange new strip called Pinky Puff.

I remember the Pusscat family with Drag A Chair & enjoyed Tommy Trouble the best.

I was just thinking too - how many titles did merge into Playhour during its run?

I can name Robin (where Andy Pandy came from), was it TV Fun - where Magic Roundabout came from? Plus Hey Diddle Didddle in 70s, then Bonnie (where the Dolly Girls came from) & finally Jack & Jill?

Wonder if this was the pre-school comic that took the most mergers?

[suebutcher]

Others absorbed were TV Toyland and Teddy Bear. "The Magic Roundabout" and "Pinky And Perky" came in with the TV Toyland merger. (TV Fun ended in 1959, years before "Roundabout" started on television.)

Anyone got Playhour cover images for July-August 1968? Pretty please??

[Peter Gray]

Pinky Puff the elephant with the amazing nose the Sid's snake of the comic...was the same artist that drew the magic roundabout..

However, he disappears from view in the mid-1970s, perhaps escaping north to D. C. Thomson.

http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07 ... hings.html

Hutchings' returned to the cover of Playhour with 'The Magic Roundabout' in 1967 but the nursery comics were slowly losing sales and, by the early 1970s, many of the strips began to be recycled. Hutchings drew 'Pinkie Puff', about a little elephant with an enormously long trunk, for Bobo Bunny (1969

)

So the Magic Roundabout was reprinted up to the mid 70's by the looks of it and went on for many many years as a reprint...
They were such good work that nobody really noticed...unless you collected it...

[Peter Gray]

Look like Bobo Bunny was also joined to Playhour has well!!

http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11 ... amily.html
also by Gordon Hutchings...

http://www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/Gull ... hings.html

no wonder he was chosen for the cover artist of Playhour..

http://www.illustrationartgallery.com/a ... s_Art.html



http://www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/Num-Num ... 81780_.htm

http://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/Gordon- ... 14454_.htm
A great linkl to see more of Gordon's work..

[suebutcher]

Good heavens. I'd not seen originals before. He really was brilliant!

[Peter Gray]

Sooty appeared on the cover in the 60's before Magic Roundabout..

http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-ima ... ool=phrase

http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-ima ... ool=phrase

[philcom55]

It's worth mentioning that some of Hugh McNeill's colour strips in Jack & Jill and Playhour were actually painted by the likes of Gordon Hutchings and Ron Nielsen - though they were never credited at the time.

- Phil R.

[philcom55]

One odd thing about collecting original artwork is that it tends to come without the text which accompanied it in printed form. As a result it can sometimes be quite baffling trying to work out what is supposed to be happening in certain sequences.

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to why this well-loved Jack & Jill back-cover star unaccountably turned into Gregory the Transvestite Grasshopper for the episode shown below...?









...Whatever the reason I've got to admit that is an especially nice dress!

(I'm pretty sure this is Gordon Hutchings again - though I could be wrong)

- Phil Rushton

[Peter Gray]

Looks like he got the wrong outfit in the parcel...But he wore it and everyone had fun anyway...wearing the wrong clothes..

It is very funny though

It must be by Gordon..

love the extra details in each picture..

[Peter Gray]

Wonderful cover art from the early days...

another cover star of Playhour...cute ducklins..by Ron Nielsen



http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-ima ... ool=phrase








by Philip Mendoza

http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-ima ... over_pages

[suebutcher]

You've done it now, I'm going to have to get some copies of Playhour!