Musical Playtime, retitled Silly Songs & Funny Dances in the USA, is the 8th special of Teletubbies home media releases (13th special in the US). It was released on 6 September 1999 by BBC and Ragdoll Productions and on May 21, 2002, in the US by PBS.
It was re-released along with Nursery Rhymes on the DVD Musical Rhyme Time! in 2008.
Featuring: Dezman Zungu Pusey with Kokuma and the Children and Carers of Birmingham Settlement Community Nursery, Laura-Marie Peeples and Natalie Christie, Eleanor Hudson and R'varne Naji
Includes[]
- Musical Tubby Custard (From Cafe Eggs)
- Boom Boom Dance
- Boom Boom Dance (From Boom Boom Dance)
- Songs about Favourite Things (From Carnival 2)
- Mittens (From Handy Hands)
- Musical Noo-Noo (From My Violin)
- Harp
- Tinky Winky and Po play the Harp (From Harp)
- The Dizzy Dance
Includes (US Version)[]
- Musical Tubby Custard
- Ballet
- Laa-Laa's Secret Dance (From Naughty Sausage/Twirlers (US))
- Songs about Favorite Things
- Mittens
- Musical Noo-Noo
- Harp
- Tinky Winky and Po play the Harp
- The Dizzy Dance
Bonus DVD Features: Go!/Teletubbies Say "Eh-Oh!"
Trivia[]
- Po was the boo shouter.
- Laa-Laa was the missing Teletubby.
- This is the first video in which Tinky Winky is not played by Dave Thompson in the main segments (not counting the intro, TV Events and Tubby Bye-Bye).
- This is the last video to have a dance until Let's Dance! in 2001.
- The US version is called Silly Songs & Funny Dances and Boom Boom Dance is replaced by the Ballet video and the Teletubbies doing the Boom Boom Dance is replaced by Laa-Laa's Secret Dance.
- In addition, the VHS copy of Silly Songs & Funny Dances is the first to use the low-pitched Warner Home Video logo with the AOL Time Warner byline.
- On top of that, the VHS copy of Silly Songs & Funny Dances is the only VHS of Teletubbies to use the PBS Kids Use Your Imagination promo at the beginning
- On some copies of the VHS of Silly Songs & Funny Dances, the PBS Kids logo is not shown at the beginning and only shown at the end.
- Interestingly enough, some other VHS copies of Silly Songs & Funny Dances use the Dash ID being shown at both the beginning and end of the tape. However, at the beginning of the tape, the Dash ID has the audio from the Dot ID, while at the end of the tape, the Dash ID has the correct audio, and has the pbskids.org web URL address without the word "kidsvideo".
- In the US version, all the Laa-Laa's Secret Dance, Mittens and Harp segments have different audio recordings on the narrator's lines than it was in the US TV airings of Twirlers, Handy Hands and Harp.
- The Ballet video from the US version would later appear in the Teletubbies Everywhere episode Ballet (USA).
Watch[]
Gallery[]
Title Card[]
UK Version
US Version {Silly Songs and Funny Dances}
Segments[]
UK Version[]
Musical Tubby Custard
Boom Boom Dance
Boom Boom Dance
Songs about Favourite Things
Mittens
Musical Noo-Noo
Harp
Tinky Winky and Po play the Harp
The Dizzy Dance
US version[]
Musical Tubby Custard
Ballet
Laa-Laa's Secret Dance
Songs about Favorite Things
Mittens
Musical Noo-Noo
Harp
Tinky Winky and Po play the Harp
The Dizzy Dance
Cover Gallery[]
Australian VHS
Norwegian DVD
Full DVD Cover of Musical Rhyme time released with Nursery Rhymes.
Disc
Australian promo for Musical Rhyme time.
Australian release of Musical Rhyme time
Australian back cover
Australian Disc
![Indonesian VCD (2004 Re-released; Indonesian Dubbed version) [Front]](/wiki/File:Teletubbies_-_Waktu_Bermain_Musik_(VCD_Indonesia)_(Front_Cover).jpg "Teletubbies - Waktu Bermain Musik (VCD Indonesia) (Front Cover).jpg (114 KB)")
Indonesian VCD (2004 Re-released; Indonesian Dubbed version) [Front]
![Indonesian VCD (2004 Re-released; Indonesian Dubbed version) [Back]](/wiki/File:Teletubbies_-_Waktu_Bermain_Musik_(VCD_Indonesia)_(Back_Cover).jpg "Teletubbies - Waktu Bermain Musik (VCD Indonesia) (Back Cover).jpg (88 KB)")
Indonesian VCD (2004 Re-released; Indonesian Dubbed version) [Back]
DVD Menu[]
Norwegian[]
Norwegian DVD Menu