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  • Play School Episode #1.100 (Season 1, Episode 100)
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Play School

Episode #1.100 (Season 1, Episode 100)
TV Episode | Family
Perhaps one of the strangest actors yet to be featured on television makes his debut today in Play School as the hero of a serial film in five episodes. He is a snail, and in the story, specialty written for this programme by Diane Ismay, ...See morePerhaps one of the strangest actors yet to be featured on television makes his debut today in Play School as the hero of a serial film in five episodes. He is a snail, and in the story, specialty written for this programme by Diane Ismay, he emerges as a very real character. The film is directed by Dorothea Brooking who is well known for her other children's serials, Tom Sawyer and The Secret Garden. Filming a snail in London is no easy task, as live snails tend to be temperamental actors and shut themselves in their shells at crucial moments. However this one, as you will see, behaved very well. See less
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Directors
Malcolm Walker (as Malcolm C. Walker) | Dorothea Brooking
Producer
Joy Whitby
Production Designer
Andree Welstead Hornby (as Andree Welstead)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Sep 7, 1964
Release date
Sep 7, 1964 (United Kingdom)
Awards
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1 nomination

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3 cast members
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Marian Diamond
Self - Presenter Self - Presenter   See fewer
The Avengers (1961)
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Terence Frisby
Self - Presenter (as Terence Holland) Self - Presenter (as Terence Holland)   See fewer
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
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Nancy Quayle
Self - Storyteller Self - Storyteller   See fewer
Play School (1964)
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