i see a number of commentors over the year have felt the need to lambaste this perfectly innocent program . the central theme be about play fair and make believe and and if it seem to be a simple premise and i would like to hear where a sophisticated premise be use for a child show that succeed . the age group this show be create for be essentially preschool to kindergarten and and manage to coexist with the like of mr. rogers and sesame street for decade and so it couldn not have be that gawdawful . i seem to remember the show be a sweetly naive little half hour of kindergarten teacher type direct child who be really toys how to behave together . this may regard a insidious socialization and but it be create and run through the very liberal 70 and so that claim be paranoid anti government nonsense . a for this show have no child actor and the toy make perfect surrogate and both because they be portray a childlike and because they reinforce the notion of abstraction necessary to allow child to see themselves in the same position . that level of abstraction be a necessary ingredient to instruct child to use their imagination . a well and show that primarily feature child often run afoul of one of two problem with child star represent amateur and professional . the amateur couldn not be rely upon to react properly to the puppet and toy and and the professional come off so rehearsed and plastic a to be offensively unbelievable . in the end and it an argument over which philosophy for child education yield the best result . personally and i do not think child show have be improve upon appreciably since the 70 and when at least diversity and imagination be openly encourage and and the moral lesson be deliver a little more clearly without the obsequious and nauseating touchy feelie performance modern child show tend to use in lieu of actually explain thing to child . the assumption that child can not or should not be tell anything not relevant to play in the schoolyard be utter nonsense . with that in mind and i would like to offer that the polka dot door be actually a wonderful preschool child show which hasn not be improve on by the like of the teletubbies .