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NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Talking of edits of the themes...


There was discussion on the previous pages about music edit bodges on the C4 feed of the service, well this must be one of them. Hopefully this wasn't used too often?
MK
Mr Kite
I believe that was used as the first junction of the day from the turn of 1993, when Channel 4 took control of their own advertising.

I personally remember the original opening sequence, where the roto came together and we got the first minute of The Journey. When it was half term, or I was off sick, I would make sure I caught that sequence. In school, any programmes we watched weren't ever the first of the day.
MK
Mr Kite
Doing better than me, can't remember any of the damn programmes I saw.


Giving my age away here but I recall in my first year of primary school (now Reception), we would watch no less than three programmes a week on ITV Schools on 4. This was in 87-88. I can't remember what we watched on Monday, other that it was my least favourite of the three and it symbolised that I had the whole week ahead of me. Think it might have been an English programme. Wednesday was My World and Friday was Let's Go Maths.

In second year (now Year 1), we watched Stop, Look & Listen and a programme called Stop Go.

Didn't watch anything in the third year. Then it was mostly BBC stuff like Look & Read and Zig-Zag. In Year 6, we got to watch How We Used To Live. Unfortunately, this was 1993-4 and the presentation had changed to Channel 4 Schools with the New Age music. I was probably the only one in the room who was disappointed or even noticed the change.
SD
SuperDave
In the mid 70’s I was watching ‘How We Used to Live’ as well as ‘Picture Box’ and a few years before that, like many of my age, I was left emotionally scarred at being made to run around in my pants while pretending to be a tiger listening to ‘Music to Movement’ on the wireless!
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JA
james-2001
Talking of edits of the themes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDXAHH_6Ego

There was discussion on the previous pages about music edit bodges on the C4 feed of the service, well this must be one of them. Hopefully this wasn't used too often?


That was used from the start of 1993, Channel 4 were selling their own ads, so they started putting in an ad break leading up to the schools programmes, which led to them cutting that opening junction to the bare minimum.
MA
Meridian AM
I remember at primary school we watched C4's "Maths is Fun", C4's "Story World with Tony Robinson", C4's "Eureka!", C4's "Stop Look Listen", BBC "Music Time", BBC "Science Zone" and some BBC "Zig Zag" and "Landmarks" episodes.

We also saw a few of the BBC "Look and Read" series (Earth Warp, LRTV, Geordie Racer, Through the Dragon's Eye and Sky Hunter 2).

In assemblies in 'juniors' we used to listen to "Together", a religious BBC schools radio series, which featured hymns that we'd have to sing along to from the BBC Come and Praise song books Laughing
We also sometimes listened to the BBC radio series "Music Workshop".

At secondary school (late 90s, early 00s) I remember watching some episodes of BBC's "Belief File" in RE, Channel 4's "Geographical Eye" and BBC's "Hallo aus Berlin".

We watched less and less TV at school as the years went by. Computers and the Internet were just starting to come in and times were about to change!
MI
Michael
Other oddities/randoms:

Promo for the move


A hideous rip of a TVARK video with one of C4's own interval musical pieces entitled "Ticket to Freedom" - (full stereo version here)


Static Just A Minute at 40 seconds with twee string music
RO
robertclark125
I think that the roto was better for the interval, than the still of the clock. Why didn't they put up a slide of the programmes on that day though, instead?
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Nobody was expected to watch these programmes as they went out, it was really just filler. A menu would have caused problems for any Scotland opt outs.

Maybe the slide was used when the interval was longer than the roto C4 had on tape? It wasn't infinitely extendable, and it was never C4 pres that had to tread water waiting for an opt to finish
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Other oddities/randoms:

Promo for the move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgiABSL4vVo


Interesting choice to go behind the scenes on Bullseye there, for some reason I've presumably missed?
SW
Steve Williams
In assemblies in 'juniors' we used to listen to "Together", a religious BBC schools radio series, which featured hymns that we'd have to sing along to from the BBC Come and Praise song books Laughing


Since we're off on a nostalgic reverie here, we too used to listen to the radio assembly in school on a Thursday morning. In those days it was on Radio 4 FM, and we'd often hear a bit of the 9am news bulletin before it, which became my number one source for half-heard, misunderstood news stories. I vividly remember them announcing the death of Andy Gibb, which totally confused me the next time I saw the Bee Gees and there were still three of them. Funny the things that stay with you.

Of course, the big problem with the radio assembly was that sometimes they'd include hymns from Come and Praise 2, which we didn't have, so couldn't join in.

In secondary school, the classroom where we had Welsh lessons (yes) was next door to the resources room, a tantalising room full of photocopiers, TVs, videos and endless supplies of all different kinds of paper, made all the more exciting by the fact it was managed by an incredibly grumpy man, so it all became a bit of a holy grail to get anything from him. One of their jobs was to record the schools programmes off the telly, so every twenty minutes during Welsh lessons, we could hear The Journey and Just A Minute coming from next door, which was always a treat to hear. Not enough of a treat to convince me not to drop Welsh at the earliest opportunity, obviously.
IT
IndigoTucker

Interesting choice to go behind the scenes on Bullseye there, for some reason I've presumably missed?


ITV Schools was managed by Central in Birmingham - Bullseye was in Birmingham. Probably just nipped downstairs to get some generic TV making stock footage for a cheap promo.

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