As is often the case, memories of one thing often generate other memories, so it's best to start a new thread, rather than continue off topic in the one about widescreen DOGS.
As I recall, back in the 90s, BBC2 used to show one kids programme at about 1pm every afternoon, generally only a short cartoon. It hardly seemed worth it.
Did they use in-vision continuity for this slot, or just use a normal ident?
As is often the case, memories of one thing often generate other memories, so it's best to start a new thread, rather than continue off topic in the one about widescreen DOGS.
As I recall, back in the 90s, BBC2 used to show one kids programme at about 1pm every afternoon, generally only a short cartoon. It hardly seemed worth it.
Did they use in-vision continuity for this slot, or just use a normal ident?
Ident with voice over.
Usually it was about 15 minutes - a cartoon and a 10-minute programme.
Believe me it was worth it to those of us who needed a little light relief on our sick days off school with only schools programmes and Westminster Live to watch.
Come the mid 1990s it was the norm to have IVC on Childrens BBC at lunchtime on BBC2, I have a slots worth on tape from October 1993 with Chris Jarvis presenting, although I guess it must have been quite new at that time as prior to that every other example available online is just the Childrens ident with the normal announcer.
As is often the case, memories of one thing often generate other memories, so it's best to start a new thread, rather than continue off topic in the one about widescreen DOGS.
As I recall, back in the 90s, BBC2 used to show one kids programme at about 1pm every afternoon, generally only a short cartoon. It hardly seemed worth it.
Did they use in-vision continuity for this slot, or just use a normal ident?
That slot is the former See-Saw slot isn't it? Home to Pigeon Street, Mr Ben, The Flumps and King Rollo, amongst others.
Yes, when was that done away with? It was a legacy of the 70's and 80's when there was a pre-school programme at lunchtime. I'm pretty sure that See Saw was an odd bit of BBC2 airtime in between schools programmes for a long while. They moved that slot onto the front of the afternoon's children's programmes at some point, something that ITV ditched a few years earlier, although they'd repeated their lunchtime kids programme in the afternoon since the early 80's.
Tots TV started off in the CITV Lunchtime block, and I'm sure I remember a repeat of the previous day's Rainbow prior to that?
I remember on at least one occasion seeing the Ident into programme format on the CBBC Breakfast Show - I think they were repeating the CBBC Prom or something similar which took up most of the programme that morning, so it wasn't worth having presenters in for just one or two links. That's the only time I remember a CA over a yellow CBBC ident too.
That slot is the former See-Saw slot isn't it? Home to Pigeon Street, Mr Ben, The Flumps and King Rollo, amongst others.
Yes, when was that done away with? It was a legacy of the 70's and 80's when there was a pre-school programme at lunchtime. I'm pretty sure that See Saw was an odd bit of BBC2 airtime in between schools programmes for a long while. They moved that slot onto the front of the afternoon's children's programmes at some point, something that ITV ditched a few years earlier, although they'd repeated their lunchtime kids programme in the afternoon since the early 80's.
Didn't the See-Saw slot move to BBC1 around 1986 (possibly without the See-Saw branding) - I remember programmes like Gran and Pigeon Street used to follow Neighbours at 1.50.
The See-Saw name actually came along quite late in the 70s, IIRC. BBC2's 'lunchtime programmes for children' had occupied the 1.45 weekday slot for several years, but I think it was circa 1978/1979 before they were branded as See-Saw.
Tots TV started off in the CITV Lunchtime block, and I'm sure I remember a repeat of the previous day's Rainbow prior to that?
Originally (in the 80s) CITV repeated the 12 noon 10 minute programme at 4pm (Alphabet Zoo, Tickle on the Tum etc) except on Fridays when the 12.10 episode of Rainbow was repeated at 4.
As is often the case, memories of one thing often generate other memories, so it's best to start a new thread, rather than continue off topic in the one about widescreen DOGS.
As I recall, back in the 90s, BBC2 used to show one kids programme at about 1pm every afternoon, generally only a short cartoon. It hardly seemed worth it.
Did they use in-vision continuity for this slot, or just use a normal ident?
The See-Saw name actually came along quite late in the 70s, IIRC. BBC2's 'lunchtime programmes for children' had occupied the 1.45 weekday slot for several years, but I think it was circa 1978/1979 before they were branded as See-Saw.
From what I've read elsewhere the See-Saw name started in 1980 when the Watch with Mother branding was dropped.