Playhour was a British children’s comics magazine published between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987, a run of approximately 1,700 weekly issues.
History
Originally published under the title Playhour Pictures, the title was shortened with issue 32 to Playhour. Playhour was intended as a companion to Jack and Jill, initially aimed at a slightly older audience. The lead strip in its early days was “Prince, the Wonder Dog of the Golden West”, drawn by Sep E. Scott. With issue 32 (21 May 1955) it lowered its target age-group and introduced comic strips based on A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, both drawn by Peter Woolcock.
1956 saw the arrival of “Sonny and Sally of Happy Valley”, two children (and their pet lamb) who were to be associated with the title until its demise in 1987; Sonny and Sally wrote the weekly editorial letter and children writing to the editorial address (Cosy Corner, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London E.C.4 — the address of the publisher, Amalgamated Press) would receive replies signed by Sonny and Sally.
The stories of Sonny and Sally (drawn by Hugh McNeill) were initially related in rhyming couplets, as were a number of other early stories, although by the end of the 1970s the stories were written in normal prose form. Others were told in captions below the illustration, or text comics, as Playhour avoided the use of word balloons.
Playhour contained a mixture of original tales for young children and adaptations of well-known fairy tales (drawn by Nadir Quinto, Ron Embleton, Jesus Blasco and others).
Series published in “Playhour”
“Billy Brock’s Schooldays”
“Jolly Days with Dicky and Dolly”
“The Merry Tales of Mimi and Marmy”
“The Wonderful Tales of Willow Wood”
“Wink and Blink, the Playful Puppies”
“Little Red Squirrel”
“The Travels of Gulliver Guinea-Pig”
“Tiger Tim and the Bruin Boys”
“Bunny Cuddles”
“Norman Gnome”
“Sooty”, based on the TV series
“Leo the Friendly Lion”
“Tommy Trouble”
“The Magic Roundabout”, based on the TV series
“Num Num and His Funny Family”
“Pinky and Perky”, based on the TV series
“Mr Men”, based on the children’s book-series
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Playhour 1970-08-08
Playhour 1970-08-15
Playhour 1970-08-22
Playhour 1970-08-29
Playhour 1970-09-05
Playhour 1970-09-12
Playhour 1970-09-19
Playhour 1970-09-26
Playhour 1970-10-03
Playhour 1970-10-10
Playhour 1970-10-17
Playhour 1970-10-24
Playhour 1970-10-26
Playhour 1970-10-28
Playhour 1970-11-07
Playhour 1970-11-14
Playhour 1970-11-21
Playhour 1970-11-28
Playhour 1970-12-05
Playhour 1970-12-12
Playhour 1970-12-19
Playhour 1970-12-26
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1971 1971 1971 1971 1971
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Playhour 1971-01-02
Playhour 1971-01-09
Playhour 1971-01-16
Playhour 1971-01-23
Playhour 1971-01-30
Playhour 1971-02-06
Playhour 1971-02-13
Playhour 1971-02-20
Playhour 1971-02-27
Playhour 1971-03-06
Playhour 1971-03-13
Playhour 1971-03-20
Playhour 1971-03-27
Playhour 1971-04-03
Playhour 1971-04-10
Playhour 1971-04-17
Playhour 1971-04-24
Playhour 1971-05-01
Playhour 1971-05-08
Playhour 1971-05-15
Playhour 1971-05-22
Playhour 1971-05-29
Playhour 1971-06-05
Playhour 1971-06-12
Playhour 1971-06-19
Playhour 1971-06-26
Playhour 1971-07-03
Playhour 1971-07-10
Playhour 1971-07-17
Playhour 1971-07-24
Playhour 1971-07-31
Playhour 1971-08-07
Playhour 1971-08-21
Playhour 1971-08-28
Playhour 1971-09-04
Playhour 1971-09-11
Playhour 1971-09-18
Playhour 1971-09-25
Playhour 1971-10-02
Playhour 1971-10-09
Playhour 1971-10-16
Playhour 1971-10-23
Playhour 1971-10-30
Playhour 1971-11-06
Playhour 1971-11-20
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1972 1972 1972 1972 1972
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Playhour 1972-02-26
Playhour 1972-07-08
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1974 1974 1974 1974 1974
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Playhour 1974-03-30
Playhour 1974-05-04
Playhour 1974-05-11
Playhour 1974-06-01
Playhour 1974-07-20
Playhour 1974-08-24
Playhour 1974-09-14
Playhour 1974-09-28
Playhour 1974-10-26
Playhour 1974-11-09
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1975 1975 1975 1975 1975
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Playhour 1975-01-11
Playhour 1975-02-01
Playhour 1975-06-14
Playhour 1975-08-23
Playhour 1975-11-29
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1976 1976 1976 1976 1976
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Playhour 1976-03-06
Playhour 1976-06-19
Playhour 1976-07-03
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1983 1983 1983 1983 1983
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Playhour 1983-08-06
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VARIOUS VARIOUS VARIOUS
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Playhour Annual 1970
Playhour Annual 1979
Playhour Book of Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
Playhour Fairy Tales 1960
British Comics 
Playhour published Annuals from 1957-1986.
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Playhour 587 …. 08-01-1966
https://mega.nz/#!g7h0QDaC!0pgDdpZDmvo548bDcMUwPkGkgPybYdy-do3CGE7J7XM
Playhour 602 …. 23-04-1966
https://mega.nz/#!g24CTKxR!WwML2ZhaH3xawkAwl7j4kLoD-Quhrc5SUilJdHO9EOg
603 …. 30-04-1966
https://mega.nz/#!sy5CSRwT!MxM6DZZbWfrH4bRW-hOFkNC7RabYRVo8Nx94TVwyXRQ
604 …. 07-05-1966
https://mega.nz/#!YvAXgRZI!KLqIxRcHWk4hJhjCSiKhHr1WCqu7TEzpw-Ws7jDIpvU
607 …. 28-05-1966
https://mega.nz/#!Iq4AxQoS!T-8TwH2DS76jzoLjTa5VOrydRF8cqISenzrLy45w_Jo
608 …. 04-06-1966
https://mega.nz/#!EmIGkJbK!2RNS5NVTu68ozQj6QaeR1itS8k1iGjK58dQbhwJehV4
609 … 11-06-1966
https://mega.nz/#!F34FkbJJ!8u5BImm95VgJi1Cn_z5jkaAQPnX8ns-tNLuhVAddQg4
610 ….. 18-06-1966
https://mega.nz/#!46AUiZTT!zpywk0WYo88aWdyEw_uAkubOFphCjihsyCQKmlb9ETQ
611 …. 25-06-1966
https://mega.nz/#!E6IAQDoA!wKXU9amK6VykUTdgATMyJDclzchWEjZdUZOhtahtdDg
638 … 31-12-1966
https://mega.nz/#!5mpHBYrR!MvNgmHMsBA7i19dcXl1druLPODJqtZp4u51YnWzOR8E
639 … 07-01-1967
https://mega.nz/#!kzYzTQBL!FLdil5CLOGITqrKII2shd_Z5l3Kzs3bJM3M73gaRmfQ
641 …. 21-01-1967
https://mega.nz/#!MiRVFayI!kO6jmSEEKeMNGDdidZG0pjknRIv2A2eJxPULAOFmQgE
642 Issue Date: 28-01-1967
https://mega.nz/#!8qpxTAbY!BUewePxEMTG8wGQXMrAeTrvvfgZOhIPeaBxxQcp1hQA
0643 4/2/67
https://mega.nz/#!gnoWWRQD!yPCGZQ16q5OOQnJhXrMMD3-jBrYYxI4pxinYlMxsbXU
Thanks to Scanner Barry2065
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Thanks for another batch of Playhour’s.
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How many Playhour comics do you have? I see that boutje had uploaded much of what you posted. Do you have more from the 1950s that you haven’t scanned? Because I would love to see more of the Billy Brock comics from that decade through the year 1960 because I love the artwork.
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Not my work Alex.
The scanner is ‘barry2065’.
I’m merely posting the links here ( as they come up ) so as to keep at least one other archive of them alive as file sharing sites have a nasty habit of disappearing overnight!!!
Lee
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Ah, okay. Would be nice if I could be in contact with him, I hope he has more 1950s Playhours
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Playhour #8 and accompanying issues keep generating new download key? Can you advise please? Great site by the way.
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That happens sometimes, when you try later or the other day the link is working again, let me know if the problem stays and i will make another link for it.
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boutje777, the file ph58 (containing issues 624,625,627) appears to be damaged or corrupted. It downloads as a file size of 0kb and attempting to open it returns an error message “the archive is either in an unknown format or damaged”.
I downloaded it twice (once yesterday and once this morning) to make sure it wasn’t an error in my internet connection but both copies I downloaded give that error message.
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Thanks, i’ve made a new link for those.
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i check that Playhour 0551 same as Playhour 0561, from date on cover 10 July 1965 it’s Playhour 0561. So it miss Playhour 0551 (01 May 1965)
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i was wrong after i check again, the wrong issue is playhour 0553, it should be playhour 0551. and the missing issue is Playhour 0553 (15 May 1965)
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Thanks, that will come straight after i reorganized this page, that’s on my todo list.
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Hi, none of the links here seem to be functioning.
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Do you mean the links in comments or at the downloadsection ? The commentlinks usually don’t last long and the downloadlinks at the covers will be up and running again in the near future because i am reorganizing this page.
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Thanks for the reply, I did mean the download links.
Quite happy to wait. Thanks again for putting it all together.
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You are welcome. I hope to have the page organized somewhere at the end of the month or beginning next month, it often depends on how uploading works, i have to try it sometimes 4 or 5 times or even another day. In the mean time i try to fill some gaps also.
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Playhour 1955 have one missing issue “0051” (01 October 1955)
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Thanks, yes i know, perhaps that issue isn’t scanned yet.
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I have the missing pages from Playhour 337 – 25th March 1961 – 7 & 10
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Great, if you like to share them i will update this issue.
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The front covers say “Every Monday” or “Every Wednesday” but the dates are actually Saturdays, is this an error?
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I have no idea, i only use the dates on the covers, i don’t pay attention to what days, perhaps the dates of the end of each workingweek are used.
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No. They were published on the day of the week stated but dated for the Saturday following. Many places didn’t pull anything till after it’s cover date, so that gave an issue a few extra days on the racks.
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Thank you for clarifying this.
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