SP
Given that the original was set in Crinkley Bottom, innuendo shouldn't be a problem.
Given that the original was set in Crinkley Bottom, innuendo shouldn't be a problem.
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A former member
That is one of the more surreal NTV: I really hope that Phone call was real.. and of course the first Gotach with noel in it the whole time..
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A former member
The start of Series 4, a new look house, a new look titles new segments, but this is when it reached its peak. S5 is were the cracks started, but at the time no one notice S6 was bad and S7 SOS!
JK
At least the kept the proper theme tune, the 1996 one was total crap, bland and boring tune. The problem for me here from Series 4 was the constant unveiling of the village. One of the best bits was that the village of Crinkley Bottom was in the mind of the viewer, and when Noel would reveal little bits about the village, it was in the mind of the viewer. However from Series 4 we start to see the village on screen in the titles, and it just loses it.
Mr Blobby overload started in Series 4 also. The 1993 Christmas number one was the start of the overload.
The start of Series 4, a new look house, a new look titles new segments, but this is when it reached its peak. S5 is were the cracks started, but at the time no one notice S6 was bad and S7 SOS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9LP-MgJ-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9LP-MgJ-0
At least the kept the proper theme tune, the 1996 one was total crap, bland and boring tune. The problem for me here from Series 4 was the constant unveiling of the village. One of the best bits was that the village of Crinkley Bottom was in the mind of the viewer, and when Noel would reveal little bits about the village, it was in the mind of the viewer. However from Series 4 we start to see the village on screen in the titles, and it just loses it.
Mr Blobby overload started in Series 4 also. The 1993 Christmas number one was the start of the overload.
BU
The big change in series 4 is they really start playing fast and loose with the format. 1-3 was very samey in terms of where each of the regular features were, whereas the 1994-5 run did away with the game at the start, NTV wasn't just "here's some funny photos and we'll come back to you after the Gotcha to do an embarrassing dance", the celeb gunge vote was more often pulling people out of the audience. As a viewer it did feel quite exciting, but there's only so long you can pull off "unpredictable" when it's like that every week.
Looking forward to seeing series 4 and 5 again though as it was an age when I was starting to become interested in the workings of TV, and the Great House set used to fascinate me at the time, particularly the trip around the house and later the Grab a Grand that filled the entire set. I think there was one week that the gunge car got stuck due to an obstruction on the rail, and they had to come back to it later to finish it off!
Looking forward to seeing series 4 and 5 again though as it was an age when I was starting to become interested in the workings of TV, and the Great House set used to fascinate me at the time, particularly the trip around the house and later the Grab a Grand that filled the entire set. I think there was one week that the gunge car got stuck due to an obstruction on the rail, and they had to come back to it later to finish it off!
JK
It must have been one hell of a headache for the production to try and build the trip around the great house into the studio. They must have used TC1 at Television Centre for this series, to provide much bigger space for the newly rebuilt Great House.
The big change in series 4 is they really start playing fast and loose with the format. 1-3 was very samey in terms of where each of the regular features were, whereas the 1994-5 run did away with the game at the start, NTV wasn't just "here's some funny photos and we'll come back to you after the Gotcha to do an embarrassing dance", the celeb gunge vote was more often pulling people out of the audience. As a viewer it did feel quite exciting, but there's only so long you can pull off "unpredictable" when it's like that every week.
Looking forward to seeing series 4 and 5 again though as it was an age when I was starting to become interested in the workings of TV, and the Great House set used to fascinate me at the time, particularly the trip around the house and later the Grab a Grand that filled the entire set. I think there was one week that the gunge car got stuck due to an obstruction on the rail, and they had to come back to it later to finish it off!
Looking forward to seeing series 4 and 5 again though as it was an age when I was starting to become interested in the workings of TV, and the Great House set used to fascinate me at the time, particularly the trip around the house and later the Grab a Grand that filled the entire set. I think there was one week that the gunge car got stuck due to an obstruction on the rail, and they had to come back to it later to finish it off!
It must have been one hell of a headache for the production to try and build the trip around the great house into the studio. They must have used TC1 at Television Centre for this series, to provide much bigger space for the newly rebuilt Great House.
BU
They only moved to TC1 for the final three series - amazingly it was still generally TC4 until the end of series 5. The trip around the house wasn't featured every week in series 5, which I imagine was potentially to save the cost and time of putting it up and taking it down every week.
The size of the set in S4&5 wasn't that much different to the first three series, as they lost the Lyric Game/Panel Game space to the far right that was largely unused for the rest of the show. With the new "west wing" it also positioned the front door much closer to the middle of the set rather than at the far left, which made more sense too.
The size of the set in S4&5 wasn't that much different to the first three series, as they lost the Lyric Game/Panel Game space to the far right that was largely unused for the rest of the show. With the new "west wing" it also positioned the front door much closer to the middle of the set rather than at the far left, which made more sense too.