SP
The clue in the spoof was about a street where ships might be. So Granada at Quay Street?
HC
Yes, I got that reference, but it's the building she goes into.
That shot looking down the road is absolutlely not Quay Street (either front or back) and they've covered up with real studio facility signage on the canopy over the entrance with a 'knocked up in 10 seconds' Treasure Hunt programme logo sign.
There is a logo on the studio camera lens box. Try and pause and see if that offers the answer.
That shot looking down the road is absolutlely not Quay Street (either front or back) and they've covered up with real studio facility signage on the canopy over the entrance with a 'knocked up in 10 seconds' Treasure Hunt programme logo sign.
There is a logo on the studio camera lens box. Try and pause and see if that offers the answer.
IS
Hmmmm, the location for the studio isn't necessarily the same as that for the rest of the building. The front doors look the same as the ones shot from inside, but when she goes through the studio door (which doesn't look very sound proof!) you don't see her from the other side
I reckon they just used any old building with a few bits of signage and photos stuck on the walls and then used the real Treasure Hunt studio for those scenes.
At first I did think it was Limehouse as the concrete lintel bits do look like it, though not the main entrance. The interior is too old for it though
I reckon they just used any old building with a few bits of signage and photos stuck on the walls and then used the real Treasure Hunt studio for those scenes.
At first I did think it was Limehouse as the concrete lintel bits do look like it, though not the main entrance. The interior is too old for it though
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 19 July 2016 9:18pm
SW
The channel that's putting up every episode of Noel's House Party has also "treated" us to virtually every episode of a rather less cherished Saturday night series in the shape of Steve Wright's People Show, including this controversial edition...
No, not the contrived bit at the start where Wright throws John McCririck off for being an arse, the bit twenty minutes in where a member of the audience is invited to run to the CBBC studio and back in three minutes to win some money. This got loads of complaints at the time as it involved running up endless flights of stairs, and to be honest the task would have troubled Mo Farah, let alone this rather large lady, it looks totally impossible to do in the time they have. Could have killed her! But on the plus side, some nice shots of TV Centre.
Such a pointless series, Steve Wright's People Show, just a bunch of stuff that happened. You'll note that in series one Wright has a couple of co-presenters who just sit around chatting, clearly an attempt to replicate his Radio 1 possee, but they get the heave-ho in series two. Everyone's forgotten about Steve Wright's great TV adventure now, probably rightly.
That channel also has another Gone Live as well from 1990, but I've banged on about that enough. Still ace, but not as good as 1989 as there are fewer recycled sets and cameos.
No, not the contrived bit at the start where Wright throws John McCririck off for being an arse, the bit twenty minutes in where a member of the audience is invited to run to the CBBC studio and back in three minutes to win some money. This got loads of complaints at the time as it involved running up endless flights of stairs, and to be honest the task would have troubled Mo Farah, let alone this rather large lady, it looks totally impossible to do in the time they have. Could have killed her! But on the plus side, some nice shots of TV Centre.
Such a pointless series, Steve Wright's People Show, just a bunch of stuff that happened. You'll note that in series one Wright has a couple of co-presenters who just sit around chatting, clearly an attempt to replicate his Radio 1 possee, but they get the heave-ho in series two. Everyone's forgotten about Steve Wright's great TV adventure now, probably rightly.
That channel also has another Gone Live as well from 1990, but I've banged on about that enough. Still ace, but not as good as 1989 as there are fewer recycled sets and cameos.
IS
Yes, I'm not sure what the point of that game was.
That corridor to the CBBC studio was network control - the galleries and voice over booths (AKA broom cupboards) are the doors leading off of it. They closed in 1995, the year that programme was made. Nice to see what it looked like as I knew it in its next incarnation.
I'd imagine that's not something that would be done today purely for security reasons. I know the layout of TVC was fairly well known, but that little tour does seem a little bit too explicit.
Thankfully those lovely stairs are staying as part of the redevelopment
That corridor to the CBBC studio was network control - the galleries and voice over booths (AKA broom cupboards) are the doors leading off of it. They closed in 1995, the year that programme was made. Nice to see what it looked like as I knew it in its next incarnation.
I'd imagine that's not something that would be done today purely for security reasons. I know the layout of TVC was fairly well known, but that little tour does seem a little bit too explicit.
Thankfully those lovely stairs are staying as part of the redevelopment
SP
You can see a bit more of that corridor in its 1993 incarnation courtesy of Andi Peters taking a walk from Pres A to Con1 via NC1 on National Tank Top Day.
The CA is Jayne Constantinis who would go on to Holiday and QVC, incidentally.
The CA is Jayne Constantinis who would go on to Holiday and QVC, incidentally.
NJ
Neil Jones
Founding member
Some Treasure Hunt:
The making of an episode of Treasure Hunt Part 1 (poor quality sound and picture drop-out but just about audible, seems to be from a Channel 4 transmission):
Part 2 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQhg2KYMoS8
And the episode this is from Part 1 (see the back end of part 4 and beginning of part 5 of this episode on the same channel for the clue/location featured in the making of film above):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VSa86Dgk8
The channel also has shedloads of Treasure Hunt videos including the BBC's remake from 2002/3.
The making of an episode of Treasure Hunt Part 1 (poor quality sound and picture drop-out but just about audible, seems to be from a Channel 4 transmission):
Part 2 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQhg2KYMoS8
And the episode this is from Part 1 (see the back end of part 4 and beginning of part 5 of this episode on the same channel for the clue/location featured in the making of film above):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VSa86Dgk8
The channel also has shedloads of Treasure Hunt videos including the BBC's remake from 2002/3.
WH
This took FOREVER to work out, and I'm not quite sure how I even got there, but it's the old ABC studios in Didsbury:
Here's the location of the rest of the filming:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4154705,-2.2320054,3a,75y,303.07h,89.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA-KEu_d5__Sox9nryswd7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Whataday
Founding member
Hmmmm, the location for the studio isn't necessarily the same as that for the rest of the building. The front doors look the same as the ones shot from inside, but when she goes through the studio door (which doesn't look very sound proof!) you don't see her from the other side
I reckon they just used any old building with a few bits of signage and photos stuck on the walls and then used the real Treasure Hunt studio for those scenes.
At first I did think it was Limehouse as the concrete lintel bits do look like it, though not the main entrance. The interior is too old for it though
I reckon they just used any old building with a few bits of signage and photos stuck on the walls and then used the real Treasure Hunt studio for those scenes.
At first I did think it was Limehouse as the concrete lintel bits do look like it, though not the main entrance. The interior is too old for it though
This took FOREVER to work out, and I'm not quite sure how I even got there, but it's the old ABC studios in Didsbury:
Here's the location of the rest of the filming:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4154705,-2.2320054,3a,75y,303.07h,89.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA-KEu_d5__Sox9nryswd7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
JA
Was it still being used as a TV studio in 1989 then, or were the interiors filmed elsewhere?
Also looking at that video and realising the Travelodge I stayed in last year the night before I flew out from Manchester is on the site of those studios!
Also looking at that video and realising the Travelodge I stayed in last year the night before I flew out from Manchester is on the site of those studios!
NJ
Interesting, thanks for that
The shot on the corner where Anneka speaks to the two blokes (from 1:39 in the clip) it has a distinctive looking house in the background - do you know if that's from the same area?
I've ran down that road (in Street View, not literally) and the closest view I can find is along the road outside the Holland & Barrett as that has a tree and a phone box in very similar positions to the clip (but no house that can be seen). However if you run even further along the road past the Aldi there's lots of other houses of the same style but there's no tree next to the road anywhere around them.
I appreciate the Treasure Hunt footage is 27 years old, the area will have changed dramatically in that time (heck, all the shops bar Oxfam have changed) so it may be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Neil Jones
Founding member
Here's the location of the rest of the filming:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4154705,-2.2320054,3a,75y,303.07h,89.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA-KEu_d5__Sox9nryswd7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4154705,-2.2320054,3a,75y,303.07h,89.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA-KEu_d5__Sox9nryswd7w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Interesting, thanks for that
The shot on the corner where Anneka speaks to the two blokes (from 1:39 in the clip) it has a distinctive looking house in the background - do you know if that's from the same area?
I've ran down that road (in Street View, not literally
) and the closest view I can find is along the road outside the Holland & Barrett as that has a tree and a phone box in very similar positions to the clip (but no house that can be seen). However if you run even further along the road past the Aldi there's lots of other houses of the same style but there's no tree next to the road anywhere around them.
I appreciate the Treasure Hunt footage is 27 years old, the area will have changed dramatically in that time (heck, all the shops bar Oxfam have changed) so it may be like looking for a needle in a haystack.