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Musical Playtime

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Musical Playtime, retitled Silly Songs and 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[]

  1. Musical Tubby Custard (From Cafe Eggs)
  2. TV Event - Boom Boom Dance (Dipsy was chosen)
  3. Boom Boom Dance (From Boom Boom Dance)
  4. Songs about Favourite Things (From Carnival 2)
  5. Mittens (From Handy Hands)
  6. Musical Noo-Noo (From My Violin)
  7. TV Event - Harp (Tinky Winky was chosen)
  8. Tinky Winky and Po play the Harp (From Harp)
  9. The Dizzy Dance

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Bonus DVD Features: Go!/Teletubbies Say "Eh-Oh!"

Trivia[]

  • Po was the boo shouter.
  • Laa-Laa was the missing Teletubby.
  • This is the second video in which Tinky Winky is not played by Dave Thompson in the main segments (not counting the theme song, TV Events and Tubby Bye-Bye). It is instead played by Simon Shelton. The first are Happy Christmas from the Teletubbies and Merry Christmas, Teletubbies!
  • This is the last video to have a dance until Let's Dance! in 2001.
  • This video was released the same day Tweenies premiered in the UK.
  • 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. But on the DVD and the Canadian VHS this logo was not actually shown and instead still uses the regular 1996 Warner Home Video logo, with the original pitch music.
    • 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. But it was not shown on the Canadian VHS, likely since PBS does not broadcast domestically in Canada (apart from US border stations).
    • On some copies of the US VHS of Silly Songs & Funny Dances, the PBS Kids logo is not shown at the beginning and only shown at the end. This is reversed on the Canadian VHS, with the logo is only shown at the beginning.
    • 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 beginning of the Canadian VHS, the Dot ID logo is actually shown instead along with the same audio, which is correct), 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 was recycled from the Teletubbies Everywhere episode Ballet (USA), albeit with additional music.
  • The DVD Version of Silly Songs and Funny Dances does not credit Rolf Saxon as a narrator.

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Language Title Watch (URL)
Albanian
Catalan Cantem amb els Teletubbies!
Croatian Igra uz glazbu
Czech Pojďme si zpívat
Danish Musik og leg med Teletubbierne
Estonian Teletupsud ja muusika
Finnish
French (France) En avant la musique
German Spiel, Spaß und Musik
Hebrew משחקים מוסיקליים
Icelandic Tónlistarstund með Stubbunum
Indonesian Waktu Bermain Musik
Italian Giochiamo con la musica
Japanese ダンスだいすき！
Korean 놀아요
Latvian
Lithuanian Muzikinė valandėlė
Mandarin (Standard) 跟着音乐跳起来
Mandarin (Taiwan) 跟著音樂跳起來
Norwegian Musikk, gøy og moro
Polish Muzyczny plac zabaw
Portuguese (Portugal) Brincam com Música
Russian
Serbian Teletabisi i muzika
Spanish (Latin America) Cantos y juegos (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain) ¡Vamos a Cantar con los Teletubbies!
Swedish Sjung & spela med Teletubbies
Thai มามะ มาเต้นระบำ
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