Shows that people forget or get lost in time

Taking of vets, can anyone remember a programme on BBC1 around 1999-2000 where an animal behavioural specialist would visit people's homes to resolve problems they were having with their pets? One episode featured a cat who was obsessed with running water so they built it a fountain-type play area.

I remember the catchy theme tune, but not the title.

I think it was either the first or second series of HOH they used a house in Warrington, which was then boarded up for years and eventually demolished a couple of years ago. The house they used changed every series for obvious reasons.

Well, not really, there is space for more than one investigative series in the schedules, especially as The Cook Report had long ended. He didn't invent investigative journalism or doorstepping. Hugh Scully was being thrown out of furniture shops in the early eighties on Nationwide. Macintyre Investigates was a very high profile series at the time, got on the cover of the Radio Times and everything.



Secret Service
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1994-04-15#at-19.00



Barking Mad
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1999-05-25#at-20.00

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Neighbours From Hell was quite an interesting one in that it started with an hour-long one-off that got an enormous rating (there had actually been a Cutting Edge on the subject a few years before that had rated equally well, clearly the subject struck a chord). This was then commissioned for a full series but in the meantime the producer left for the Beeb and took all the material they'd done with him, and did a series for the Beeb called Neighbours at War - http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1998-01-05#at-21.30

But ITV still did the series of Neighbours From Hell, and shoved the first episode forward from mid-March to the exact same night as the first Neighbours at War, an hour earlier. That kind of thing happened a few times, actually, also in 1998 both the Beeb and ITV commissioned documentaries on England vs Argentina in the World Cup, and when the Beeb scheduled theirs first, ITV promptly brought theirs forward to the night before the Beeb's so they could get on first, so much so it was unbilled in the Radio Times.

One of my old teachers was on Neighbours From Hell, fact fans. I'd long left school by then, though.

Is this thread just becoming lists of old programmes, then? Triangle is really bloody famous.

Here's two I remember from Friday afternoons on BBC2, Weekend OUtlook, and Jump Cuts. They were preview programmes, can you guess what for?

Passport quiz, Only ever screened north of the border. Over 150eps were made.

Weekend OUtlook and Jump Cuts were Friday Afternoon preview programmes, looking at what was coming up on the Open University on both BBC1 and 2 that weekend. In the early 1990s, they reverted to Jump Cuts, but reverted back to Weekend OUtlook by 1994.

What was that programme about house plants from the early 1990s called?

Least he's got his clothes on in that one!

Potted Histories?
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1996-01-04#at-21.50

Keep them coming!



What I used to like about Weekend Outlook was that the Radio Times billing always said it would "help you plan your weekend's viewing", as if it might have primetime stuff in it as well.

Here's how Round The Bend and Doc Croc started off, the satire show set in a sewer:


Ran on CITV for three series, 1989-1991 and featured the work of Aardman Animations too.

And from a similar era, anyone remember Owl TV?



THIS used to terrify the four year old me, for reasons I expect are obvious to all.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was shown a couple of times on CBBC in the 1980s but it seemed to be far less remembered than other 'big' cartoon series shown on CBBC judging from references to it on the internet. It was quite obscure until about 5 or so years ago.