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Polka Dot Door is a Canadian childr's television series which was produced by the Ontario Education Communications Authority (later known as TVOntario) from 1971 to 1993. The series features two hosts who speak directly to the home viewing audice.

The contt of the shows was gerally geared towards education and creativity. Each week of episodes focused on a single theme with each weekday assigned a differt motif in which the theme was explored in differt ways (For example, Tuesdays were Dress-Up Day in which the hosts would use costumes to explore the theme).

One of the most well-known elemts of the series was the Polkaroo, a mythical character whose name combines the words polka dot and kangaroo. Normally played by the male host in costume, the Polkaroo would appear to the female host to perform a mime; upon the second host's return, he would typically express disappointmt wh informed that he had once again missed the Polkaroo. In earlier years, the Polkaroo appeared just once per week on Imagination Day, but due to the character's popularity, additional appearances were added later in the show's run.

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Another feature of the show was looking through the polka-dot-door, usually on Finding-Out Day, wh the camera would zoom in to a special dot on the door, which would op up to reveal a short educational film.

Polka Dot Door was created and developed by a team of employees from TVOntario, hired and led by original series producer and director Peggy Liptrott.

Who laid the conceptual foundation of the show, educational supervisor Marnie Patrick Roberts, educational consultant L. Ted Coneybeare, script writers and composers Pat Patterson and Dodi Robb, animator Dick Derhodge (who designed the familiar oping/closing animation) and Dr. Ada Schermann, a professor at the prestigious Institute of Child Study in Toronto who was consulted in the early stages of Polka Dot Door's developmt and is responsible for giving the show its name.

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New episodes of Polka Dot Door originally aired on TVOntario Monday to Friday beginning in the fall of 1971 until the show's cancellation in 1993, with reruns running in constant rotation both on weekdays and weekds well into the 1990s.

The show itself was an adaptation of the BBC childr's show Play School. Initially many aspects and concepts of Play School were licsed by TVOntario for use on Polka Dot Door, including designs of some of the stuffed animals used in the show, which were similar to those used in Play School as well as educational film inserts/segmts which were shown to viewers Through the Arched Window on Play School and Through the Polka Dot Door on Polka Dot Door.

Dodi Robb helped distinguish Polka Dot Door with her creation and addition of the Polkaroo, combining the show's title with the word kangaroo.

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Polkaroo would reprise his role every Thursday (Imagination Day), appearing to only one of the two hosts (the other dressing up and playing the role of Polkaroo).

In the late-1970s, th-producer Coneybeare led negotiations to dissolve TVOntario's licsing agreemt with Play School, freeing Polka Dot Door to be distinctively Canadian

Robb and Patterson co-composed the theme song that accompanied the oping/closing animation used for the series' tire run, and wrote many of the early scripts and songs used in the series, including Imagine, Imagine, a song oft used on Imagination Day with Polkaroo.

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Robb would go on to be the first-ever head of childr's programming at CBC Television, and would have Muppet Dodi in Sesame Park, a Canadian adaptation of Sesame Street, named in her honour.

The theme song was performed by Angela Antonelli, born December 29, 1933, in Guelph, Ontario. Left home at the age of 16 to Study voice under Dr. Ernesto Vinci at Royal Conservatory of Music, Joined the Canadian Opera Company and Starred in Gianni Schicchi opposite Jon Vickers, Gretel in Hansel & Gretel & Marriage of Figaro among others. She was a regular on the Juliet Show for 6 seasons as well as many other radio and television shows. Original cast member of Anne of Gre Gables at the Charlottetown Festival and wt on to perform in many other theatrical shows.

During the course of the series' run, Polka Dot Door had three producers who significantly contributed to the developmt of the show: original producer-director Peggy Liptrott (1971), L. Ted Coneybeare (1972–1984), and Jed MacKay (1985–1993). MacKay began as a writer and composer for Polka Dot Door in the 1970s. He wt on to create and produce two multi-award-winning series for TVOntario, Join In! and Polka Dot Shorts. The accompanying background music throughout the show was played live to tape by Canadian pianists Herbie Helbig (1971–1984) and John Arpin (1985–1993).

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Each episode of Polka Dot Door had two human hosts, always one man and one woman. There were more than fifty hosts over the course of the series. Each pair of hosts was contracted for one week's worth of episodes, with many hosts and pairs reprising their role over multiple weeks, though not necessarily with the same co-host. Most hosts during MacKay's time as producer were contracted for two to three weeks worth of episodes (10–15), with the exception of Carrie Loring, Johnnie Chase, and Cindy Cook, who hosted every year MacKay produced (1985–1993) as well as the two one-hour specials. Typically 25–35 episodes were produced each summer during the course of the series, depding on the available funds in TVOntario's programming budget. Many aspiring Canadian actors and actresses got their start on Polka Dot Door, and wt on to do notable work in North American television, film, and theatre.

Below is an incomplete list of some of the people who hosted Polka Dot Door. The name in brackets is the producer whom the host worked with followed by the years in which the host hosted (wh known):

In addition, many hosts worked on other educational shows produced by TVOntario, including Heather Conkie (Dear Aunt Agnes, Report Canada, Music Box, It's Mainly Music), Nere Virgin (Today's Special), Nina Keogh (Readalong, Today's Special, Bookmice, The Magic Library) Rex Hagon (The Scice Alliance), and Alex Laurier (Cucumber). Cindy Cook was the longest serving female host appearing on Polka Dot Door betwe 1981–1993, making her one of the most recognizable hosts from the series. She is also the only host to have worked with two producers of the show, first with Coneybeare (from 1981 to 1984) and th with MacKay (from 1985 to 1993).

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Polka Dot Door was taped and broadcast in blocks of five episodes a week that would feature the same two hosts each day. Each five-day week had a specific theme and emphasis. However, within that theme, each day of the week had its own theme that was consistt throughout the tire series:

In order to create trust and familiar routines with young childr, Polka Dot Door was scripted with specific 'evts' that were particular to each day of the week:

Another regular evt on Polka Dot Door was Storytime, which featured in each programme. This involved the host teaching and telling the time on a large, oversized blue (later pink) grandfather clock and featured the appearance of a small stuffed animal named Storytime Mouse. Oft Storytime Mouse would be gaged in some activity related to that day's story.

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Although Storytime happed in every episode, it was oft at differt, unpredictable times. Whatever activity was happing on the show would be interrupted by a sequce of chimes indicating that it was time to tell the time together and hear a story. The hosts would stop whatever activity they were doing and go to the grandfather clock to tell the time and th read a story in an adjact rocking chair specifically used for this purpose on the show. Helbig and Arpin would provide instrumtal piano accompanimt, oft accting the moods and themes represted in the story being told.

Depding on the emphasis, there would be a song of the week that would oft be reprised every day, helping viewers to solidify the emphasis of that week's theme. Many of the songs in the early years of the program were composed by the script writers themselves. Wh MacKay, an accomplished composer, took over as producer from 1985 to 1993, he composed many of the songs used in the series during that time.

The hosts would lead young childr in songs and stories, and interact with stuffed animal characters Humpty, Dumpty, Marigold, and Bear. These characters did not speak or move; the hosts would let the audice know what they were saying; for example, one of the hosts would say What's that Marigold? You would like... In the 1980s, a stuffed cat named Minou was added, which introduced viewers to simple words and phrases in Frch. On certain theme days the hosts would invite the audice to peer through the Polka Dot Door to witness an educational video of some sort, showing, for instance, how crayons are made.

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In 2010, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television gave Polka Dot Door a Masterworks award, calling it a groundbreaking childr's educational series that changed the nature of childr's television programming and impacted countless young Canadians and raised the international