CBBC Birthday thread

Don't be miserable.
Incredible Games was, well, incredible. I liked it. There weren't any new ideas in it though, and that Dark Knight game is the game that keeps on giving because it was used many times in Raven in various forms and no doubt copious other shows over the years.

Of course the Dark Knight is a lot less scary when you realise the person playing him went on to be Tinky Winky in the Teletubbies!

There was a Ratz based game, Rat Run, which was the successor to Maggot Moments.

Anybody else remember that the Broomcupboard stayed on screeen for longer than intended? They were supposed to move to Studio A on the Monday, but a power failure meant that they decided to stay in Con for an extra day. Toby presented with Ratz.

I've heard this story before but find it hard to believe as I remember the new Studio A appearing in the afternoon slot one Monday afternoon at the start of September. The birthday slot in the morning was Josie on the "island" saying she had to catch the boat home. It used the new "cows" ident though. Plus the broom cupboard was last seen in July as they did the afternoons from the island set all summer. Obviously I've no way of proving it but I'm sure that's an urban myth!

I guess it's possible it's the move to the island that was delayed by a day due to a power cut, keeping the broomcupboard on screen a day longer than planned.

Was there a reason the background was changed on the main Children's BBC ident in 1996? I was quite fond of the green/multi-coloured background.

I always assumed they ran in unison, thinking it either one was for BBC One and the other was for BBC Two, or one was for morning/weekends or something.

I was going to suggest it was most probably to emphasis the BBC brand, what with the bigger colour BBC logo on the later ident, and from 1997 onwards, the CBBC Logo was a variant on the BBC logo itself.

That being said, there are examples on TV Ark where the BBC logo on the Children's BBC ident is far more prominent than it was on the multi-coloured ident, and those date from 1994, albeit with a total mash-up of BBC logo styles depending on the ident. So I would probably suggest it was more to try and make it consistent - but that problem fixed itself anyway the following year with the 1997 total BBC rebrand and the CBBC black on yellow look so...

On TV Ark notice a "CHIL BBC" DOG in the bottom left on some of the caps. Was this only used on presentation or was it used on programmes too. I don't think it lasted long however they used it - I think CITV introduced one around the same time so suspect it was a case of they had one so they felt they needed one too.
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcother/cbbc_1991.html

It was only on presentation, not programmes, it only lasted a few months as well.

The 1996 yellow ident was introduced at the same time quite a bit of yellow was introduced into the set, so it was just a refresh.

Did this happen much? A continuity announcement over a CBBC ident?