CITV 30th Anniversary

Are you sure about those timings?

EDIT, I notice on the Fremantlemedia Sales website the original episode is called 'DO NOT USE SUPERDOG' and there's two others at the bottom called 'SUPERDOG' and 'SUPERDOG AND THE COMEDIAN'..... intriguing!

Im sure as can be, but if you look around all other sooty clips there run around 19m some 19m01, some 19m 54s etc but its 19m

Rare gem for some members:

I don't know if Sooty was cut or not but it was the only show really which I recorded where the start and finish was cut off on Saturday, and the start on Sunday too.

Did it include a competition or something like that?

Nope, there pleny of the full eps on youtube.

Whatever it was it doesn't look like a recent edit, as I mentioned earlier it's down as 'do not use' in Fremantle's Archive and there are what looks like replacements at the bottom of the list. I can't imagine these would have been done after the programme finished production as the credits don't look like they've been hacked about.

Looking at Sooty clips on Youtube has brought back some long repressed memories, especially in the old title sequences - I don't know who the dog character is who appears in the 70's ones but I remember it scaring me as a young child!

This is an interesting clip from 1984 - Harry Corbett visits for fathers day

I remember The Sooty Show episodes in the mid-80s were only 15 minutes long - prior to this they were about 20 minutes long. The shows with the 'painting' opening titles were longer than those with the balloons. Does that tie up with YT?

Challenge have announced they will screen series 1 & 2 of Fun House.

Not Surprises here, IF there can get even half the viewers that watch it over on CITV weekend challenge will be laughing!

IF only ITV3 would broadcast old CITV dramas

I was quite pleased that they shown an episode of Wizadora throughout all of this, although none to pleased they used an episode with the second (and least memorable) incarnation of Wizadora which was exactly the reason why I stopped watching it when I was a lot younger.

Although trawling through Youtube I came across a little gem which shows the very original form of Wizadora, before it even started on CITV which some of you might be interested to see.
It seems after trawling through Google, that Wizadora first started off in 1991 as an English-language programme shown in Germany, still made by Meridian in the UK in their form before they became an ITV franchise.
Watching it you can see how certain elements got adapted for the later UK version. Including a very basic adaptation of Hangle, and an even more basic version of Phoebe the Telephone, alas an actress in a cardboard telephone costume.

Sure about that? Meridian was a consortium, they were set up specifically to bid for the franchise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_Meridian