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Classic shows you remember, but the public might not (July 2017)

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RO
robertclark125
There was the 5 minute slot in the 1980s on BBC1 daytime, called "Five to Eleven". Anyone remember what it was even about?

And from BBC Scotland, Naked Video. No, it was not THAT! It was an adult comedy show, which is where Rab C Nesbitt was first seen.
LL
London Lite Founding member
There was the 5 minute slot in the 1980s on BBC1 daytime, called "Five to Eleven". Anyone remember what it was even about?
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Five to Eleven was an educational slot presented by children from arts schools.

NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
I suppose we could add a large chunk of the ITV Schools/ITV Schools on 4/4Schools programme library to this thread, although I suppose it depends how much mileage you or your school managed to get out of the service either at the time or recorded and played back later, as it's very unlikely I'd have thought you got to sit in front of the TV for the entire two and a half hours.
SW
Steve Williams
Almost forgot, as we're now mentioning Angela Rippon, and as Wimbledon is on, how about Matchpoint, a game show that was in the 13:40 slot on BBC1, circa 1989/90?


Matchpoint was basically Masterteam II, it had exactly the same production team and the concept was basically the same, but they used tennis scoring to give it a USP and the star prize was a week of tennis coaching in La Manga.

Five to Eleven was an educational slot presented by children from arts schools.


It wasn't, actually, for most of the time it was a series where an actor would read poetry or short stories, a bit like an adult version of Jackanory, and just as boring, with a different actor and author every week. However, because it was on all year round, in the school holidays, when it was often in the middle of CBBC, it featured schoolkids reading more child-friendly works instead. But was just as boring.
IS
Inspector Sands

Five to Eleven was an educational slot presented by children from arts schools.

It wasn't either, it was kind of an adult version of Jackanory, with short story and poetry readings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_Eleven

I think that clip of the school child might have been a half term special or similar.


BBC daytime is littered with obscure forgotten programmes like Advice Shop and Bazaar, and the Daytime UK strands like Scene today
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 9 July 2017 11:15am
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robertclark125
Advice Shop was on BBC2, and Hugh Scully was a host of it.

Does anyone remember Holiday Outings? Often shown as filler material on BBC2. Basically, there would be a video, of someone visiting a place, that had originally been shown on Holiday on BBC1. The video would be shown as a stand alone programme, Holiday Outings, and after the short programme had finished, the continuity announcer would read out, over a slide, the address you could write to, in order to get more details on the location featured.

There was never any such use of reports from BBC2's version of The Travel Show.
BA
bilky asko
I've only heard about Holiday Outings from this video:

AN
Andrew Founding member

Five to Eleven was an educational slot presented by children from arts schools.

It wasn't either, it was kind of an adult version of Jackanory, with short story and poetry readings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_to_Eleven

I think that clip of the school child might have been a half term special or similar.


BBC daytime is littered with obscure forgotten programmes like Advice Shop and Bazaar, and the Daytime UK strands like Scene today


Cna you imagine something like this following Homes under the Hammer today



More starkly, can you imagine as a child on school holidays, watching But First This, but having to pause the fun for 10 mins for the news and this.



An era before people would flick to another channel at a moments notice and would actually wait patiently for 5-10 minutes.
Last edited by Andrew on 9 July 2017 2:17pm - 2 times in total
VM
VMPhil
The video description says it was a "popular television programme", then again it is uploaded by a Mr. Edward Petherbridge.
RO
robertclark125
Here's a full edition of Holiday Outings on BBC2, with the late, great Jill Dando on the Orient Express
SW
Steve Williams
There was never any such use of reports from BBC2's version of The Travel Show.


Yes there was, The Travel Show Short Cuts. The nineties equivalent of Coast.

[More starkly, can you imagine as a child on school holidays, watching But First This, but having to pause the fun for 10 mins for the news and this.

An era before people would flick to another channel at a moments notice and would actually wait patiently for 5-10 minutes.


And on Bank Holidays, fifteen minutes when they used to do Breakfast News at 7am and 8am in between the kids' programmes. Seems bizarre to think anyone would watch both, but I actually thought it made the kids' shows look quite important.

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