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(April 2007)

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Put The Telly On
Theme to "It'll Never Work". People Are People by Depeche Mode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d__c5qNXQM (original 1984 video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECmwzgKK354 (short amatuer version on drum synths)
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A former member
Anyone remember The Brolleys? Laughing
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tvarksouthwest
Only the title.
TT
Tumble Tower
623058 posted:
who made the original muppet shows? ATV???? I know it was made by a UK company

That's right, it was ATV.
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Tumble Tower
AndrewDundee posted:
nok32uk posted:
Woof! Yes. Wasn't PC Valentine (John Bowler) from The Bill in that? Or have I got the wrong person.

Kevin and Co
Activ8
It'll Never Work (hosted by Sally Gray and that theme tune by Depeche Mode).


Oh - forgot about Activ8. Remember its predecessors " Stopwatch " and " Move It "? Stopwatch had Paul McDowell as well as copresenters, and Move it had Simon O'Brien and an actress from Grange Hill.


I fondly remember "Move It!". The first series was in summer 1988, at the time I disliked it and thought it was inferior to its predecessor "We Are The Champions". However I enjoyed the 1989 and 1990 series of Move It!

The 1990 series of Move It was the last one ever, and was only about 6 shows in that series. Why was it axed? Does anyone know?

I hated its successor, Activ-8 which first appeared in summer 1991. I think it only had one series, I don't remember it coming back in 1992 or later years.

N.B. We Are The Champions - it had full length series from 1972 to 1987. However the BBC had ONE disabled special of it per year the following few years after 1987.
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miss hellfire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDyX_bRPw8

Aaaw! Zig and Zag. They were the bestest ever puppets.
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NorthDown2
Activ-8 - if you watched Xchange closely (it's only been off air for a year but had been going since CBBC Channel's inception) there was an Activ-8 sticker on the set.
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Roger Mellie
nok32uk posted:
Theme to "It'll Never Work". People Are People by Depeche Mode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d__c5qNXQM (original 1984 video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECmwzgKK354 (short amatuer version on drum synths)


...and just for the record, the theme tune for the O-Zone by Yello:

Oh Yeah
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tvarksouthwest
Tumble Tower posted:
N.B. We Are The Champions - it had full length series from 1972 to 1987. However the BBC had ONE disabled special of it per year the following few years after 1987.

One of these specials was shown on 7 September 1989, according to that day's Ceefax AM which I watched recently.
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A former member
Captain Zep ( Captain Zep Aaah! Super Space Detective! ). I remember the cast appearing on Saturday Superstore and everyone trying out the gel that they used to sweep their hair back in " space age style " . Smile
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Bongo
Mr Men to return in new TV series

Popular children's characters the Mr Men will return to British TV for the first time in more than a decade.

Twenty five of the Mr Men and Little Miss characters will return in a new animated series, The Mr Men Show, on channel Five next year.

Full Story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6557177.stm
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tvarksouthwest
Now don't tell me, it'll be full of C21 political correctness too.

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