Whilst Tamba (the talking purple dragon) appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to pair-up in each show.
Tikkabilla presenter Simon Davies also presented Play School in its later years and Playdays in its early years and Justin Fletcher played Mr Jolly in the live stage show production of Playdays.
In the Tikkabilla studio, which features a large, colourful house, the presenters and Tamba perform songs, tell stories, play games and make things.
The iconic square, round and arched windows made famous by Play School are again used as a device to transport the viewer from the studio to the outside, real world.
Tikkabilla sometimes shows animated clips originally from other educational BBC programmes mostly from Words and Pictures and Numbertime.