Denis Norden retires his clipboard

Only the real Charles Allen could think that!

What concerns me is that ITV, as they descend further into low-cost pap, will decide to concentrate on TV's Naughtiest Blunders or similar instead of finding a replacement frontman. If that happens, we lose the father of all cock-up shows.

Good old Denis. Hard to believe he's 84 - he's older than both my nans! I started watching at 'It'll Be Alright On The Night 8' back in 1991 and seem to remember that particular edition being repeated a lot. I have followed every show since. I particularly remember his compilation shows for nearly all of ITVs milestone birthdays.

Anyway, sad to see him go. Probably the only presenter on ITV still to say "we will shortly be going over to another commercial break". A true Englishman (i know he's partly Jewish).

As for its future, I can only agree that it will probably be replaced by another outtake show. I think it would be wrong to keep the name and just replace the presenter but then again, this is ITV. They'll probably launch a new 'outtake channel'.

8 wasn't shown until December 1994; you must have been watching an earlier programme. 6 premired Autumn 1990, with 7 following on 02 January 1993.

Probably was an earlier programme then. I jogged my mind here... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629428/

The IMDB is notorious for getting things wrong! The amount of corrections I had to supply for Grange Hill...

From memory, the dates for Alright On The Night are:

1 - 1978
2 - 1979
3 - 25/12/81
4 - 1984 (?)
5 - 25/12/87 (originally packaged as "Alright on Christmas Night")
6 - Autumn 1990
7 - 02/01/93
8 - XX/12/94
9 - Autumn 1996 (aka Alright On The Night's Cockup Trip)
10 - Autumn 1997
11 - Autumn 1999
12 - Early 2001?

also:
1980(?): Worst of Alright On The Night
1985 - Second Worst of Alright On the Night
1986 - It'll Be Alright Late At Night
25/12/88 - 10 Years of Alright On The Night

After 12, really not sure when they were shown but I've got them all somewhere!

Let's wish him a happy retirement, always enjoyed watching his outtakes, one of the few shows worth watching on ITV1.

Perhaps they could replace it with a show without a spelling mistake in the title.

A possible come-back opportunity for Barrymore? It'll be "Awight" on the Night...

... I'll get my coat

wasn't there a 'kids from alright on the night'

Always found it odd these programmes used a lot of US out takes, I've lost track of the number of times I've seen the clip where the US news reporter asks a kid of about 10 about if the man was still alive when he found him and the kid says 'no he was dead' (or something like that)

that kid would be about 30 by now, i hope he gets royalties for all those clips

one thing i never liked was the audiences who would be still laughing at a mistake when the next clip came on and you'd miss the error

noticed that coronation street has only just allowed clips to be shown in the last few years

First one aired on 18/9/77 IIRC, second on 28/10/79. I think no.4 was November 1983, not sure of exact date. 6 was 2/12/90, 8 - 10/12/94, 10 - 29/11/97, 11 - 11/9/99, 12 - 27/1/01, 13 - 17/8/01. There was also a 21 Years of.... special, which went out on 24/1/98. No 15, the Silver Jubilee Special, was first aired 14/9/02.

There was also an Utterly Worst of Alright on the Night" (premiered 10/4/94) with celebrities discussing and introducing their favourite howlers.
Second Worst featured Rory Bremner as, according to Denis, "the It'll Be Alright on the Night Selection Committee".

Utterly Worst was the first non-studio based edition, Cockup the first one to come from a location (the aptly-named Great Cockup in Cumbria), 21 Years Of.... came from a boat in the Bermuda Triangle and No.11 from London's Theatre Royal. A few have also been recorded away from the London Studios - either at Northam (no.16) and Manchester (Silver Jubilee Special and, I think, 17 and 18 ).

Simon Withington's website (http://www.simonwithington.co.uk/) is worth a look for the TX dates of the later Alright on the Nights.

There was also 'It'll Be Alright Late at Night' which was frst shown on Channel 4

Cheers, meant to add that one to my list but got so bogged down in my own detail, I forgot!

I remember seeing it on ITV around 1992ish, it was also shorter than the normal editions, at 45 mins' length.