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

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p0ab
One shown only in STVland, on New years day, for many years, until a good few years ago, "The Falkirk Childrens Panto", where children in a theatre group would perform a panto. Anyone know when STV stopped showing it?


I know it was still going in 1992.
https://youtu.be/SnMPVqo7gOg
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Tim Goodwin1
Anthony Ant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTRTIWLSQ
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p0ab posted:
One shown only in STVland, on New years day, for many years, until a good few years ago, "The Falkirk Childrens Panto", where children in a theatre group would perform a panto. Anyone know when STV stopped showing it?


I know it was still going in 1992.
https://youtu.be/SnMPVqo7gOg


ha ha, It sure it was going until the turn of 2000, after that point its like STV give up.
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Andrew Founding member
Style Challenge. In my head this ran and ran, and was a staple of weekday mornings. But at that age a couple of months was a long time so who knows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkhIBBfRhdE


In the era I'm thinking of Can't Cook Won't Cook was at 10am and Style Challenge was afterwards at about 10:25am, both notable in that they had rotating presenters when one of a few could appear on any given day.

The only memory I have of it was that there was a gate at the back of the set, most walked through it at the start but John Leslie would jump over it.
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DE88
Gaelic Games on Channel 4.

Can't help but like Gary Terzza's announcement at the start...

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Whataday Founding member
This reminds me of school lessons in the run up to Christmas where we were allowed to watch videos, and for some reason we had to endure Satellite City.

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JCB
Fluke: A Channel 4, pre 'Deal Or No Deal', gameshow based entirely on luck



Also from Channel 4 'Dicing with Debt'

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Riaz
Eurocops seems to have faded into obscurity although it was quite big in its day.
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Russ abbot, I believe that because there problems with the owners



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Richard
Speaking of remakes. I think I was the only person who liked the Martin Clunes remake of Reggie Perrin and was disappointed they didn't at least finish it off with a one-off special.


And it also featured Neil Stuke from Game On.
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Richard
GMTV2 did have a loop of a fish tank as seen here at 0:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbVxAJR4tKQ


That's such an inappropriate intro to Trisha!
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Richard
I bet nobody remembers GMTV2 or the original format of ITV2 either, though it was at a time when hardly anyone had access to the channel. Similar to when BBC Choice and Knowledge were new and putting out interesting original content- but nobody saw it.


I did, but I remember thinking how few people were actually watching. It was exciting to be in at the start. This was particularly true with BBC Choice NI

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