Get Fresh

Not a sentence you'll see anywhere else on the internet, probably. I reckon that must be the missing episode from August 1988 given HTV West is missing so far. So if we add Swaffham to 1986, I reckon we're only missing one location. Do you reckon we could get some kind of grant for this?

I'm going back to my 11 year old self, and wondering about how TV was made, rather than just watching it. Get Fresh caused more questions than answers, so if Mr Williams allows me to deviate slightly from the locations list..

I assumed that the Millennium Dustbin doubled as both studio, and control gallery - as you never saw any OB trucks parked up close by. But thinking about it now, the mid 80's would be far too early for what we would know as fly-aways (like Sky and the BBC have for F1 coverage).

So was the dustbin a studio/ gallery, or were the scanners parked well out of sight of the Millenium Dustbin, or was the show controlled from a studio gallery at the ITV station who was responsible for the show that week?

The dustbin was just a set on wheels. A full OB set up would be positioned just round the corner. Ghost Train was the same - that truck was much more heavily modified to give sufficient space inside for the studio elements than the dustbin.

Oh God, yes, deviate from the locations as much as you want, in a desperate attempt to make this thread a bit more interesting.

Loving that you're all talking about a show I'm too young to remember. That's happening less and less these days!

The July 1987 episode from Plymouth, I remember well as I was on a school camp that weekend.... and to all our annoyance arrived at Plymouth Hoe just after the show had finished.


Yes, there were some OB trucks parked nearby. I seem to remember seeing the 'Dustbin' later on towards the end of the derig and it was a plain black vehicle, presumably all the bits that made up the outside of the 'spacecraft' detached and were stored inside

Thanks. Over time, I sort of worked out that the OB's were 'around the corner' and out of shot. But you could never be sure, because there did seem to be a lot of spare space behind the wall, behind (the wonderful) Gilbert - one of Spitting Images non-person caricature creations. I seem to remember, that wherever they were, they always had a camera up a massive cherry picker crane looking down over the site they were at - I guess the broadcast compound was directly below that.

I never took to Ghost Train, but from memory it was just Get Fresh for a slightly younger audience. It's a hazy recollection, but the vehicle used was pretty much a full scale replica of a Ghost Train ride that would rock up at any fun fare.

Although it was a different show, it still had the presenters coming in from outside and talking to the puppet (was that where Nobby The Sheep came from?) in a camera position almost identical to where Gilbert's position was in the MD.
Seem to remember they used an extended ledge on the upper outside part for band miming performances, whereas Get Fresh got the pop 'turns' to mime at close quarters to the braying hoards of under 14's present.

I'd suspect that the high camera would have been up the same hoist used to put the link used to get back to the nearest studio base, so putting it in the compound would be a good guess.

The Get Mucky vehicle had only the floorspace of a normal articulated trailer, the Ghost Train one expanded quite significantly.
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/olditv/12092010127.jpg

Bloody hated Ghost Train. Although it followed the same pattern as Get Fresh, the difference was they never announced the location in advance and an audience wasn't invited, so they could have been anywhere really. That said, the last episode is on YouTube, more or less in full, and it's a studio-based show, from STV.

Is there a list of ITV Saturday shows anywhere as they had several between Tiswas and SM:tv, most of which are long forgotten compared to their BBC counterparts.

http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/satkids/satkids.htm

My earliest memories are Going Live and 8:15 from Manchester, hardly ever watched ITV but I was aware of them

YES:


* September 1981 and April 1982,: tiswas:
* May - October 1982: Various stuff: nothing network, the last two summers Granada had the slot but gave up:
* 30 October 1982 - 30 April 1983: - Saturday Show
* April–August 1983: No73
* 3 September 1983 - 14 April 1984: - Saturday show
* May - August 1984 : No73
* 1 September 1984 and 26 January 1985 : The Saturday Starship
* February–July 1985: No73
* August - December 1985: TX One series
* January–April 1986: No73
* 3 May 1986 - 13 September 1986 : - Get Fresh
* September 1986 - April 1987: No73
* 25 April 1987 - 29 August 1987 : - Get Fresh
* September 1987 - March 1988 No73
* 9 April 1988 - 27 August 1988 : - Get Fresh
* 3 September 1988 – 26 March 1989: - Motormouth
* 1 April 1989 – 26 August 1989 : - Ghost Train
* 2 September Film Grey fires bobby
* 9 September 1989 – 31 March 1990: - Motormouth
* 21 April 1990 – 25 August 1990 : - Ghost Train
* 1 September 1990 – 30 March 1991: - Motormouth
* 6 April 1991 – August 1991 : - Ghost Train
* August 1991 – 4 April 1992: - Motormouth
* 25 April 1992 until 27 June 1992: Gimme 5
* July and August 1992 : - Cheap films and cartoons
* 5 September 1992 - May 1993: - Whats up Doc
* May 1993 - August 1993 - Gimme 5
* 4 September 1993 - 30 April 1994: - Whats up Doc
* May 1994 - August 1994 - Gimme 5
* 3 September 1994 - April 1995 - Whats up Doc
* May 95 - December 1995: - Scratchy and Co.

1996
* January – April: It's Not Just Saturday and Telegantic Megavision
* May - August: - Scratchy and Co.
* August – December - WOW

1997
* January - April - Scratchy and Co.
* April - August : - Mashed - Does anyone remember that one? is that the one with the monkey?
* August – December : - Tricky

1998
* January - April 1998: - Scratchy and Co.
* April - August : - Mashed - Does anyone remember that one? is that the one with the monkey?