Charlie Brooker's Newswipe

Similar story here - I'm 24, and I never, ever saw Bagpuss, Clangers or Ivor. I watched a lot of Children's ITV, proportionately, and remember stuff like Danger Mouse, Dreamstone, Riddlers, etc.

Yep - if you watched CITV you won't have seen much Small Films stuff - it was almost always on the BBC.

(It's like kids who grew up in the 70s - some remember Magpie, others Blue Peter...)

The same with Tiswas/No 73 or Swap Shop/Saturday Superstore
(I was the latter)

I remember watching OU before Children's BBC in the morning and that was in the early 90s!

I remember the unique test signal that was broadcast just before OU programmes started - a black screen with the legent "OU" in either the top left or top right corner. I assume this was to do with OU programmes originating from a dedicated presentation which could service both BBC1 and BBC2 at the same time, and the test signal was used to check that the correct output from OU Con was on the right network.

And from the other side of the day, I remember BBC2 showing a OU programme complete with OU ident at midnight every weekday night during the early 90s before they closed for the night.

Just to remind you all, Screenwipe is not on tonight but tomorrow (Christmas Eve) 10pm with a review of the year special last in series.

Yep, should be good.

If I miss it I'll catch it on iPlayer at some point.

Haven't laughed that hard at a tv programme for a very long time. The ending was genius!

Very comical, infact a cameo from Duncan too at the end?

Fantastic end to the series, hysterical! Good to see the full return of Barry Sh!tpeas too.

Did anybody cap the episode when on air? I know, iPlayer, but that was the episode from tape so it doesn't have the continuity announcers....

Brilliant as always. Look forward to more from Charlie in the New Year.