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Bloody loved that theme tune. INTERESTING ACTIV8-RELATED FACT: It was made by three different BBC departments during its run, because it was one of the last kids shows made by BBC Manchester before their kids department closed down in the early nineties, when it was inherited by the kids department in London, and then a year or two later, when they decided that 25% of CBBC would now be made by BBC Scotland, it was one of the existing shows they shipped off there to ensure that.
Well, this started under the name of Movies, Movies, Movies, and the first I remember seeing in Granadaland was a one-off circa 1992. Then it became a full series, as you say usually on Saturday lunchtimes, and at some point it changed to that awful clunky name when it broadened its remit. But although it was shown in most regions, it was never fully networked, I don't think, and it carried on for years but most regions stopped showing it, and I seem to remember from the variations panel in the Radio Times that only HTV were still showing it by the end.
There was also a Movies Games and Videos magazine for a bit, in that period where every show involving video games had a magazine - a la GamesMaster, Bad Influence, Games World. Like the show itself was very much the low-rent end of games-related telly, so too was the magazine was published by Europress who were very much the low-rent end of games magazines. I can't remember how long it lasted, not very long.
Activ8 on CBBC. Titles at the end of this clip
Bloody loved that theme tune. INTERESTING ACTIV8-RELATED FACT: It was made by three different BBC departments during its run, because it was one of the last kids shows made by BBC Manchester before their kids department closed down in the early nineties, when it was inherited by the kids department in London, and then a year or two later, when they decided that 25% of CBBC would now be made by BBC Scotland, it was one of the existing shows they shipped off there to ensure that.
Movies, Games and Videos which followed the Chart Show on ITV (in Central region at least)
Well, this started under the name of Movies, Movies, Movies, and the first I remember seeing in Granadaland was a one-off circa 1992. Then it became a full series, as you say usually on Saturday lunchtimes, and at some point it changed to that awful clunky name when it broadened its remit. But although it was shown in most regions, it was never fully networked, I don't think, and it carried on for years but most regions stopped showing it, and I seem to remember from the variations panel in the Radio Times that only HTV were still showing it by the end.
There was also a Movies Games and Videos magazine for a bit, in that period where every show involving video games had a magazine - a la GamesMaster, Bad Influence, Games World. Like the show itself was very much the low-rent end of games-related telly, so too was the magazine was published by Europress who were very much the low-rent end of games magazines. I can't remember how long it lasted, not very long.