IN
They also repeated some post 1983 Play Schools at Christmas, the only time there's ever been a repeat of the programme since it came off the air in 1988.
That's the thing I liked about CBBC on Choice - with no budget and a three hour loop to fill, it sometimes delved further into the archives than CBBC had done for a while.
As mentioned, Radio Times didn't print the schedule; possibly the only place that did was the monthly ONDigital magazine. Though most of the line-up in the first month consists of the usual Teletubbies, Tweenies, Playdays, Bob the Builder etc, they were also showing ancient episodes of Caterpillar Trail, complete with plugs for then-upcoming nature events from 15 years earlier! They also showed other 80s shows that hadn't received an outing for a while, like Bertha, and Pigeon Street, and I think went back as far as Mr Benn.
The change to CBeebies was rather disappointing, as it consisted of mostly new or recent shows that didn't have the same archival interest!
The earlier CBBC Choice also included archive material such as Rentaghost, but also less expected shows like Jossy's Giants.
IIRC the EPG simply had "CBBC on Choice" as well.
Although Cbeebies dropped most archive Childrens stuff (earlier than Teletubbies anyway) on launch, they did later buy in Tots TV, which must've been off screens for a good 5 or 6 years at the point they acquired it. CBBC also made a point of showing older 'family dramas' on Sunday afternoons.
One thing that was good about it is they repeated some early 90s stuff like Bitsa and Radio Roo which I don't think was shown again after CBeebies and the CBBC Channel launched.
They also repeated some post 1983 Play Schools at Christmas, the only time there's ever been a repeat of the programme since it came off the air in 1988.
That's the thing I liked about CBBC on Choice - with no budget and a three hour loop to fill, it sometimes delved further into the archives than CBBC had done for a while.
As mentioned, Radio Times didn't print the schedule; possibly the only place that did was the monthly ONDigital magazine. Though most of the line-up in the first month consists of the usual Teletubbies, Tweenies, Playdays, Bob the Builder etc, they were also showing ancient episodes of Caterpillar Trail, complete with plugs for then-upcoming nature events from 15 years earlier! They also showed other 80s shows that hadn't received an outing for a while, like Bertha, and Pigeon Street, and I think went back as far as Mr Benn.
The change to CBeebies was rather disappointing, as it consisted of mostly new or recent shows that didn't have the same archival interest!
The earlier CBBC Choice also included archive material such as Rentaghost, but also less expected shows like Jossy's Giants.
IIRC the EPG simply had "CBBC on Choice" as well.
Although Cbeebies dropped most archive Childrens stuff (earlier than Teletubbies anyway) on launch, they did later buy in Tots TV, which must've been off screens for a good 5 or 6 years at the point they acquired it. CBBC also made a point of showing older 'family dramas' on Sunday afternoons.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20010914231356/http://www.guardian.co.uk/TV/bbcchoice.html
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
NW
That was a schedule for the latter CBBC on Choice, which by the time our house upgraded to digital cable was the norm in the BBC Choice schedule, if anything it was a dry run for CBeebies for about 18 months prior to launch. The idents on this were simply branded as CBBC. From what I remember though the strand was almost never promoted on BBC1 or BBC2.
As mentioned there was CBBC Choice, which was a strand on weekend afternoons which had their own specific idents, from what I remember it was mostly L&K Replay and RePeter.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010914231356/http://www.guardian.co.uk/TV/bbcchoice.html
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
That was a schedule for the latter CBBC on Choice, which by the time our house upgraded to digital cable was the norm in the BBC Choice schedule, if anything it was a dry run for CBeebies for about 18 months prior to launch. The idents on this were simply branded as CBBC. From what I remember though the strand was almost never promoted on BBC1 or BBC2.
As mentioned there was CBBC Choice, which was a strand on weekend afternoons which had their own specific idents, from what I remember it was mostly L&K Replay and RePeter.
IN
That was a schedule for the latter CBBC on Choice, which by the time our house upgraded to digital cable was the norm in the BBC Choice schedule, if anything it was a dry run for CBeebies for about 18 months prior to launch. The idents on this were simply branded as CBBC. From what I remember though the strand was almost never promoted on BBC1 or BBC2.
As mentioned there was CBBC Choice, which was a strand on weekend afternoons which had their own specific idents, from what I remember it was mostly L&K Replay and RePeter.
I think Catbrooks' point is that they were listed in the Guardian, CBBC on Choice was quite hard to find listings for generally.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010914231356/http://www.guardian.co.uk/TV/bbcchoice.html
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
A small amount of CBBC on Choice schedules are available here.
That was a schedule for the latter CBBC on Choice, which by the time our house upgraded to digital cable was the norm in the BBC Choice schedule, if anything it was a dry run for CBeebies for about 18 months prior to launch. The idents on this were simply branded as CBBC. From what I remember though the strand was almost never promoted on BBC1 or BBC2.
As mentioned there was CBBC Choice, which was a strand on weekend afternoons which had their own specific idents, from what I remember it was mostly L&K Replay and RePeter.
I think Catbrooks' point is that they were listed in the Guardian, CBBC on Choice was quite hard to find listings for generally.
BE
Didn't know wherever to post this here or the Youtube Gold thread but here it is. The first ever episode of Get Your Own Back.
JA
Interesting that it's only 15 minutes long, and no sign of the fairground theme either (same theme tune it had during that era though), I had it in my head that was there from the start, but I'm obviously wrong! That set does ring some bells now I've seen it though.
JA
Apparently it was originally commissioned as a Double Dare replacement, so I guess that the 15 minutes would have been split up and distributed around the Saturday morning show of the time. As a standalone it works reasonably well, but once they're actually treating it as a show in its own right it comes on leaps and bounds.
BU
The fairground opening bit was added onto the start once they adopted the fairground theme in the studio, guessing perhaps the third series?
I remember the mangle bit but I don't recall them spending so long talking before actually getting going - the actual gunging is very rushed, and that's the bit everyone was waiting for! Also love how when they enter it you can see the dungeon set clearly has a wall missing for camera angles...
Not sure about Double Dare but Run The Risk was a full 25 min slot - often ended up in the 4.35 slot in the summer months. One random thing I loved about RTR was the design of parts of the set was clearly based on the 1992-3 Going Live set, yet survived unchanged until 1997!
I remember the mangle bit but I don't recall them spending so long talking before actually getting going - the actual gunging is very rushed, and that's the bit everyone was waiting for! Also love how when they enter it you can see the dungeon set clearly has a wall missing for camera angles...
Not sure about Double Dare but Run The Risk was a full 25 min slot - often ended up in the 4.35 slot in the summer months. One random thing I loved about RTR was the design of parts of the set was clearly based on the 1992-3 Going Live set, yet survived unchanged until 1997!
JA
I don't think it was ever shown that way though. Certainly Double Dare was still on the 1991-92 series of Going Live. If it was made to be shown that way, it would explain the lack of end credits though.
Apparently it was originally commissioned as a Double Dare replacement, so I guess that the 15 minutes would have been split up and distributed around the Saturday morning show of the time.
I don't think it was ever shown that way though. Certainly Double Dare was still on the 1991-92 series of Going Live. If it was made to be shown that way, it would explain the lack of end credits though.
JA
Another thing that I've thought of- with oth Double Dare and Run The Risk being mentioned is one year- either 1991 or 92, can't remember which, we went with school to see the local panto which had Peter Simon in (can't remember which panto it was now though). After the show finished, out came various bits of TV equipment, with monitors being put throughout the theatre- and we had a live link-up with Andi Peters in the Broomcupboard! From what I remember there were two link-ups, though we only saw the first one (which from what I remember was just Peter saying where he was and us cheering- but it was a LONG time ago!)- the teachers sadly deciding to take us away before the second. I'd love to actually be able to see it and how it looked on TV (and find out the reason for the link-up, I presume there must have been one! If they told us at the time I can't remember), though I doubt I ever will, sadly.