CBBC Birthday thread

It never went out as such, but I did wonder if it was filmed for that at first - with Double dare being an imported Nickelodeon format, as their own UK efforts grew I think they were a bit reluctant to keep it going on a rival channel.

Aha! I reckon this would have been for Peter Simon's other CBBC series Star Pets..
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1992-12-17#at-16.05

This was a pretty slight series, as you can see only ten minutes long, when kids showcased the tricks their pets could do, and I remember that this live final came from the theatre where he was doing his panto, which I suppose made it all look a bit more exciting, being in an actual theatre. I'm guessing you'd have seen him at ten to four and then they got in a proper audience of friends and family for the show itself? Funny the things, eh?

As for whether Get Your Own Back was ever intended for Going Live, I'm reminded that Get Your Own Back was on Thursdays in the autumn of 1991, and the year before in exactly the same slot was Clockwise with Darren Day, which you can see in this video of the day Thatcher resigned and they moved CBBC to BBC2 - http://youtu.be/zstbMBohgQM

For a year or so Double Dare and Clockwise alternated on Going Live, and I remember Get Your Own Back looked very similar, in a very similar set, and was presumably from the same production team. So maybe it was intended for Going Live.

Here is a clip form 1988, For me Im sure this isnt pre Recorded, CA before CBBC and im sure its from Glasgow.

Bald Edd the Duck! Heard about but never seen that incarnation until now...

You may well be right! May well have possibly answered the question I've been wondering about the past 20-odd years! Looks like it was immediately followed by the 1992 celebrity special of GYOB too, so even ties into the discussion!

Edit: in fact I just googled and found this post on Digitalspy, you must be right! http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9178886&postcount=207 Peter Simon did do the panto here (and switch the Christmas lights on) a few times during the 90s! On a related note, we had Dave Benson Philips doing our panto in 2012!

Blue Peter today broadcasting from MediaCityUK's HQ3 instead of HQ7 for their Children In Need special.

Glad to be of service. To continue with this Mansfield theme, my flatmate in university came from Worksop, and I remember finding out that Richard Bacon was going to join The Big Breakfast ages before it was officially announced, because my flatmate had read it in the Mansfield Chronicle.

The X Factor waste their team doing their finals from Wembley, what's wrong with doing them from Mansfield?

There was a position in the gallery next to the continuity both which the announcer could use with a John Motson style lip mic, which was plan B for con failing. Plan C was the spare suite down the corridor. So if that was network continuity that could be how it was done while Andy was in con.

Why is that CBBC ident in a box?

and according to the comments it was recorded from BBC1 Scotland

I'm sure that it was quite normal to have a regular announcer in the junction before Children's BBC. It would have sounded a bit odd to have Andy Crane to voice the junction before appearing in vision (especially in this case one about a train crash) whereas it didn't for the junction afterwards.

And yes, IIRC Edd the Duck originally didn't have hair, I know there was a narrative behind him getting the mohican but I can't remember what it was

In the early days the regular announcer introduced Tom and Jerry or similar over the globe -so not officially CBBC - then Phillip would take over off the back of it.