CBBC Birthday thread

That's clip's Children's BBC as opposed to BFT. I think that theme was mainly the Children's BBC2 theme for Sunday mornings? Also used for Christmas Children's BBC.

Yeah as I understand it the 1991 theme wasn't particularly good or distinctive so they got 2 Brave to repurpose their 1989-1991 "Children's BBC Two" (or just "Children's BBC" when it was on BBC1 holiday mornings) theme instead. For BFT they stuck it over the top of the 1991 BFT titles...big on recycling in the early 90s!

Would love to find a fuller version of the 1992 BFT theme. That credit roll is brilliant, and the opening is pretty catchy too.

This clip features a few versions of the 91-92 theme. Think I prefer the initial, rockier version...

Do you mean this?

As seen on many of the clips, BFT in the Summer ran for 8 weeks to cater for Scotland. Did they commission 8 weeks of programmes of stuff like Why Don't You?, as surely they could have repeated the first 2 weeks in the last 2 weeks as no children would have seen the full 8 weeks.

Indeed, the exact same.

Wow, that menu has managed to make that ident even more garish.

PEDANTRY AHOY! There were no new programmes shown in the summer holidays - the episodes of Why Don't You shown during the summer were repeats of episodes first shown at Christmas and Easter. Everything else, bar the home-made CBBC shows like The O Zone, was also a repeat.

This changed in 1994? when BFT was dropped and BBC Scotland had to provide is own line up. Thus we ended up with Mega mag. for around three years.

There was also a year or two (2003-ish) where the CBBC channel team in Studio 2 provided the Scotland and Northern Ireland summer holidays continuity, whilst the BBC2 Breakfast Show continued before school as per usual. The CBBC channel had a giant "2" in the studio which must have confused a few kids. It also had the odd effect that BBC2 Scot and NI couldn't go on air till 7am, when the channel did, so they filled with Ceefax, meaning there was in fact less kids output than in England and Wales!

Well, it was only for a few years that CBBC ran right from the beginning of July, and I think BBC Scotland still did their own holiday shows for other Scottish holidays that didn't match English holidays. The Untied Shoelaces Show ran for years of course and I know there was something called Go For X in the early nineties because I remember someone writing into the Radio Times pointing out Sally Gray had referred to a bidet as "a children's sink". And Northern Ireland had their own kids show in the mid-nineties as well, Over The Wall, because that was repeated on the network.

Presumably this was around the time BBC Scotland opened their own kids department - in the mid-nineties they pledged 25% of kids shows were now going to be made there - so it made more sense for them to do it to give them more to do.

And before that, in the early eighties, before any CBBC branding and daytime TV, BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland would indeed show kids shows in early July, when England and Wales showed nothing at all, and then vice versa at the end of August, with the same programmes, albeit all repeats.

Here is a very rare CBBC TWO Scotland ident used before the Scottish school holiday opt outs.