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''Polka Dot Door'' is a long-running Canadian children's television series which was produced by the Ontario Education Communications Authority (later known as TVOntario) from 1971–1993. The series featured two hosts who acknowledged and presented directly to the home viewing audience. The content of the shows was generally geared towards education and creativity. Each week of episodes focused on a single theme with each weekday assigned a different "motif" in which the theme was explored in different 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 elements of the series was "Polkaroo": a mythical character whose name combines the words "polka dot" and "kangaroo". The character would generally appear twice a week (on Thursdays - "Imagination Day" and "Treasure Day") to only one of the two hosts while the other made an excuse to leave (in reality this was to don the Polkaroo costume). Upon the second host's return, they would typically express disappointment when informed that they had once-again missed Polkaroo. Despite appearing only once a week, the character became one of the iconic features of the series. Another feature of the show was "looking through the polka-dot-door." This feature of the show, usually on "Finding-Out Day"was unique in that the camera would zoom in to a special dot on the door which would open up revealing a special view (actually a video clip) of a factory, or some industry, demonstrating how a certain item was made, including a bit of history too. ==Creation and history== ''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.〔 〕 Significant contributors to the creation and development of the series in 1971 included executive producer Vera Good, 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 opening/closing animation) and Dr. Ada Scherman, a professor at the prestigious Institute of Child Study in Toronto who was consulted in the early stages of ''Polka Dot Door's'' development and is responsible for giving the show its name. 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 weekends well into the 1990s. The show itself was an adaptation of the BBC children's show ''Play School''. Initially many aspects and concepts of ''Play School'' were licensed 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/segments which were shown to viewers "Through the Arched Window" on ''Play School'' and "Through the Polka Dot Door" on ''Polka Dot Door''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js2jrV6Kln8 )〕 Robb helped distinguish ''Polka Dot Door'' as uniquely Canadian with her creation and addition of the iconic, mythical character Polkaroo, combining the show's title with the word kangaroo. 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, then-producer Coneybeare led negotiations to dissolve TVOntario's licensing agreement with ''Play School'', freeing ''Polka Dot Door'' to be distinctively Canadian and adapt to include more Canadian educational content. Robb and Patterson co-composed the memorable theme song that accompanied the opening/closing animation used for the series' entire run and wrote many of the early scripts and songs used in the series including "Imagine, Imagine", a song often used on Imagination Day with Polkaroo. Robb would go on to be the first-ever head of children's programming at CBC Television, where she would be immortalized for her contributions to Canadian children's television in the form of Muppet "Dodi" in ''Sesame Park'', Canada's adaptation of ''Sesame Street''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polka Dot Door」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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