Shows that people forget or get lost in time

BBC Abla does repeat that often.

On the subject of Gaelic, I remember in the very early 80s BBC One Scotland broadcast " Mag is Mog " before Swap Shop or Superstore. It had a puppet cat and may have featured Runrig. There was another Gaelic children's programme called " Bzzz! " which BBC Two Scotland showed normally at around 4.10pm. This was repeated as late as 1986.

David Mitchell's comedy news based programme where celebrities were locked away for a week and then had to answer topical questions or guess which stories were true. It may have been called something like The Pod ( BBC Two ). I seem to remember reading it didn't get a second series because DM couldn't commit due to joining Ten O' Clock Live on Channel 4 the next year.

Fast and Loose although recent and IMO very funny disappeared after one series and is rarely spoken about / discussed.

I remember a sketch based comedy on BBC Two going out at teatime ( around 5.40 / 6.00 ) called Dear Heart. It was loosely based around a magazine problem page. Some of it was very risqué for that time of the early evening and it was always trailed post children's programmes on BBC One.

Last one for now is Channel 4's Things to Come. One of the presenters was the late Malcolm Bennett. It was shown at 6pm and was like Tomorrow's World meets youth tv. ( Late 80s / early 90s I think )

Going back to Games World, there's some sad info about that. The 1994 champion died in 1997, it's mentioned on the comments of an upload of the relevant episode.

Inside Rugby, with Thierry Lacroix? Channel 4, on a Saturday morning. A certain Dermot o Leary was one of the hosts as well!

This was 'The Bubble'

Only just catching up on this mega thread but I believe Sabrina's first airings on ITV were outside CITV on Saturday evenings after the news around 5:30/6ish - no idea if it was on Nick at that time as well (I presume it was) but I think that ITV originally was aiming to use it in the way US networks was as family viewing rather than kids viewing. It soon went to CITV, mainly SM:tv, reflecting Clarissa on Live & Kicking I suppose.

I remember quite enjoying that at the time and it had some pretty innovative Red Button features but as you say it didn't do well in the ratings. Looking at Genome, after three episodes it swapped places with Parkinson in the Saturday evening post-watershed schedule (this was during the period when ITV had Premier League highlights and there was a MOTD-shaped hole in BBC1's schedule).

It was based on an American series, Murder in Small Town X, mainly remembered because the winner was a fireman killed on 9/11, which happened about a week after the final episode was broadcast.

Explain....?

I do believe there is someone on this forum who can explain much better than me, LWT did hate that sitcom so much so that was broadcast at 21.30 after LWT drama Dempsey and Makepeace at 20.30.

Don't forget BBC 1's 'Sin On Saturday' , so awful it was pulled mid series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_on_Saturday

Seems amazing now to think we had quite a lot of regional soaps in the nineties, with that, and Carlton doing London Bridge and Central doing Family Pride and Granada the demented Revelations (I think Granada started showing London Bridge seemingly to thank Carlton for showing Revelations). Nowadays there are weeks without any networked drama, let alone regional ones.



I mentioned this in another thread (or maybe earlier in this one). When Rugby Special ended on the Beeb in the mid-nineties there wasn't any highlights show for Premiership Rugby so they started dishing it out for free to whoever wanted it. C5 had it first with Rugby Express, and then after one season of that it moved to C4 as Inside Rugby. I remember there being loads of complaints that nobody could understand a word Thierry Lacroix was saying, so he appeared rather less frequently and Dermot, who was a reporter on the show, started to be rather more prominent. That was around the time Dermot was all over C4 at the weekend, he was also doing youth sports show No Balls Allowed with his T4 mate Margerhita Taylor for a bit.



Yes, as mentioned it was The Bubble, and as you say, it was supposed to come back for a second series but David Mitchell couldn't fit it into his schedule and they didn't want to do it without him. It was based on an Israeli format though I remember reading we were the only country who played it for laughs with comedy guests, other countries have members of the public winning actual prizes. I really enjoyed it. I can't remember where I read it, but in the pilot apparently they got sidetracked by a very long discussion about whether a Nick Robinson report apparently from the Six O'Clock News was true or not, based entirely on the fact Big Ben behind him said it was quarter to five. Quite often they would decide whether the stories were true not based on the actual stories at all, but on the reports themselves, which was quite interesting, it ended up being quite an interesting discussion about how the media works.



The first slot for Sabrina in November 1996 was indeed 5.30 on Saturdays, parachuted in right at the last minute as a spoiler for the launch of The Simpsons on BBC1 at the same time. I remember much bemusement a few weeks in when it ended up beating The Simpsons. That was a familiar slot for imports at the time, and from January 1997 it was shown in a double bill with the series based on Clueless, that was a quite a fun slot for a few months. But after that, with The Simpsons combated, they were considered of more use for Children's ITV.



Well, I don't know about this, but I do vividly remember That's My Boy being on at 9.30, which seems the most bizarre slot imaginable for such a lightweight sitcom. The reason I remember this is because I'd gone to some kind of concert with my Sunday school (I don't know what it was or what I was doing there, but there is a photo somewhere of me standing backstage) which I think was the first time I'd ever gone out to do something without my family, and when I got back it was 9.30, which was the latest I'd ever stayed up, and I remember coming home and my parents were watching That's My Boy. For years I assumed I'd made that bit up, because of the implausibility of That's My Boy being at 9.30, so I was delighted when the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy came out and the TX details for That's My Boy confirmed it was indeed at 9.30 in 1985.

Alright, I'll do the joke. 28 years old, I was.