Shows that people forget or get lost in time

The last sitcom STV made in the 20th century, but as a commission for Channel 4, My Dead Dad, which came out in 1990 I believe.

And there was also the "40 Minutes" strand of one off documentaries on BBC2. The one I remember most was "Heart of the Angel", which looked at 24 hours in the life of Angel tube station, before its major rebuilding.

Kill two birds with one stone here based on previous thread discussions - Button Moon. Somebody on a TV countdown programme somewhere this was like The Clangers on a budget of 26p. A collection of kitchen objects come to life on sets that look like they were made out of cardboard. Surprisingly this cheap affair lasted 91 episodes over 7 series.

I wouldn't say Button Moon is a forgotten show, it has cult status.

Pres items from the NODDY camera could be coloured any way they liked. The actual idents and stills that the camera pointed at were black and white (and I think the camera was monochrome too). The high and low colours were added by a device I believe known as the 'Cox Box' (it was manufactured by Cox electronics) and there were dials that allowed the engineers to make the whites Yellow and the blacks Blue (usually). There's some speculation on the internet that this is why the Blue / Yellow colours appear to drift somewhat between surviving recordings (some globes appear to even be quite green). Not sure that's just down to age of recordings, domestic limitations of pre-1985 tape formates etc.

The Transmitter Information sequence was this lurid combination just to differentiate between it and other standard bits of the schedule.

Which is of course now available on iPlayer...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tkn/40-minutes-heart-of-the-angel

I used a Cox box in the 80s, to generate flat field colours (for adjusting out moiré on C-Format VTRs) . I recall it also had a number of preset buttons, that you could store various colours on, so they may well have set those up.

Very popular in the 70s, because you could generate colour captions, using b/w sources.

Southern, ATV, Border, Granada all used blue/yellow or white to colour in captions derived from b/w sources.

Also handy for animations, because the blue (which was always noticeably susceptible to noise coming off VTR) could be applied 'live' and look far cleaner.

ATV used to play games with their caption, but only on local output. They once came out of the movie, 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' with their 'ATV Presentation' Caption, coloured in red background and yellow text.

WOOF:





like everything the last series with another dog was meh.

Les & Dustin's Laughter Show


Girls On Top; Just look at those names..

An example of a good idea that sadly didn't last long and now only "exists" online as such in the form of mushy YouTube videos and hasn't been seen in broadcast quality since 2009 - Chute!, with Ross Lee, CBBC first aired 2007.



This was pretty much just a collection of random videos, a handful of which were fairly interesting IIRC.

Anyone remember a Chris Tarrant pre-Millionaire gameshow called Lose A Million?

Have we had any of Shane Richie's contributions yet? For there are many...

A whole host of National Lottery game shows could be added to this thread I suppose. Few of them seemed to hit the mark. Wasn't there an early one where contestants were fired off into the air by one of those bungee catapault things?

Me three! Full Activ8 theme from around 14:00 mins in this clip: