I remember the start of the 90s and Sunday Mornings on CBBC2 meant reruns of the classic childrens programming like showing the very start of Grange Hill. I think they brought back Johnny Briggs and Simon and the Witch. There was another show, can't remember the exact title but I think it was called The Box Of Delights which showed programmes and possibly music of the time.
I remember the start of the 90s and Sunday Mornings on CBBC2 meant reruns of the classic childrens programming like showing the very start of Grange Hill. I think they brought back Johnny Briggs and Simon and the Witch. There was another show, can't remember the exact title but I think it was called The Box Of Delights which showed programmes and possibly music of the time.
I do remember that, and great it was. However, the way CBBC is today, I don't think we'll see stuff like that happening again.
I don't want to go on a retro fest but I feel that the programming I had growing up during my kiddy/teens years 1983-1993 period had so much varied programmes. It was during that time that the die hard programmes that went on for years were coming to a close such as Playschool, See Saw programmes, Crackerjack etc so my period was sort of a transitional period from the past to what we get now were companies don't really want to take risks or pump the money in.
I think that was footage of when he moved to the BBC2 presentation control suite because of the Chancellor's budget or something...
Yep - clearly NC2, the BBC2 continuity suite, given the ==2== symbol that Phillip demonstrated. The dinner jacket on "high brow" BBC2 was a running joke of Phillip's.
Interesting that the Temporary Fault caption came from a button on the desk labelled Clock/Camera, which implies it came from the NODD device, which is surprising that such a simple caption was still produced that way when the symbol was computer generated.
Slightly poor quality and in 4:3 due to taping it however here is the ident...
http://ikonforums.com/junkyard/childrentvontrial.flv ...damm Virgin doing an overnight software update which popped up on my video when I was watching it this morning.